Croatia’s Baby Lasagna has announced his “Meow Back” tour will continue through to 2025, with a Spring leg spanning 21 shows across 16 countries.
Tour Continues into 2025
The 2025 tour, which will follow on from the first leg in Autumn of this year, starts in Tallinn, Estonia on 28th February, lasting for a total of 26 shows, spanning across Europe, before the final date in the Greek capital of Athens. The tour will be based around his upcoming debut album “Demons & Mosquitos”.
Tickets for the tour will go on sale at 12:00 on Friday on Livenation.
Who is Baby Lasagna?
Marko Purišić, who goes by the stage name Baby Lasagna, is from Umag in Croatia. His journey in the music industry started in 2011 as he was the guitarist for the Croatian band Manntra, who competed in Dora 2019 with the song “In the Shadows”.
Marko’s solo career as Baby Lasagna kicked off in 2023 with his first single “IG Boy”, followed on by “Don’t hate yourself but don’t love yourself too much”. In 2024 Baby Lasagna was selected as a wildcard for Dora 2024 with his Eurovision song “Rim Tim Tagi Dim”, however was later permitted into the competition following a withdrawal. The rest is history.
“Rim Tim Tagi Dim” his Eurovision song was written and composed solely by Marko himself. He states the song is about moving away from your home town to a big city, and the anxieties surrounding that.
He would go onto place 2nd place at Eurovision with the song with 547 points, winning the televote on the way to achieving Croatia’s best ever result.
Croatia’s Eurovision Journey
Croatia has been a part of the Eurovision family since 1961, as part of Yugoslavia. Ten Croatian artists went on to represent Yugoslavia in the Contest – the most famous of which being Riva, who gave Yugoslavia its only win in 1989. The 1990 Contest was held in Zagreb as a tribute to their Croatian heritage. Croatia debuted in the Contest as an independent nation in 1993 with the band Put and their song “Don’t Ever Cry”.
Since then, Croatia has gone on to score as high as 2nd place in 2024. For 2024, Croatia chose Baby Lasagna to represent the nation in Malmö with their song “Rim Tim Tagi Dim”. Performing in the first semi-final, Croatia qualified for the Grand Final, winning the semi-final in the process. In the Grand Final, Baby Lasagna finished in 2nd place, with a total of 547 points – 210 of which coming from juries, whilst another 337 came from the televote. This was the highest televoting score in the Grand Final of the 2024 contest.
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