Oro (song)

"Oro" (Serbian Cyrillic: Оро) is a Balkan ballad, the Serbian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 being held in Belgrade, Serbia. The song was sung by Jelena Tomašević, who was supported on stage by flautist Bora Dugić. That year Serbia was directly qualified in the final of the Eurovision Song contest thanks to previous year's victory by Marija Šerifović with "Molitva", which had made it the host country for 2008. It finished 6th out of 25 contestants with 160 points.

"Oro"
Single by Jelena Tomašević
from the album Panta Rei
ReleasedMarch 10, 2008 (2008-03-10)
Recorded2008
GenreBalkan ballad
Length3:04
LabelMinacord
Songwriter(s)
Jelena Tomašević singles chronology
"Jutro"
(2005)		 "Oro"
(2008)		 "Košava"
(2008)
Eurovision Song Contest 2008 entry
Country
Artist(s)
With
Language
Composer(s)
Lyricist(s)
Dejan Ivanović
Finals performance
Final result
6th
Final points
160
Entry chronology
◄ "Molitva" (2007)
"Cipela" (2009) ►

Other versions

The song has several versions in different languages: "Adiós amor" (Spanish), "Ela Agapi" (Έλα αγάπη, Greek) and "Minha dor" (Portuguese), the latter with lyrics by Vasco da Câmara Pereira. It was also planned to be recorded in Russian, English, Swedish, Finnish, Hebrew and a language called "Oronian" – which could either be made-up from the song title, or the Oro language of Nigeria –, but this never happened: it was recorded only in four languages. The official house remix was included on Tomašević's debut album, Panta Rei, as well as the Spanish, Greek and Portuguese versions.

Trivia

This is the third song whose title is named after a folk dance, after "Hora" from Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 and "Halay" from Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984.

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