Slovenia
Eva Boto
Kaj Je To Življenje (What is the Life)
Eva Boto was born on December 1st, 1995. She lives in the small town of Šentjanž pri Dravogradu which lies in the North Eastern part of Slovenia, 120 kilometres from the capital Ljubljana. She is now a second-year student attending the Ravne na Koroškem High School, but she is already thinking about continuing her studies in Graz, Austria, or London where she would like to study soloist singing.

She has been singing since a very early age and practices daily in her specially designed music room at her home. At 10 years of age, Eva entered an international singing competition in Austria and won. Later, she performed several times at the FENS Youth Musical Festival, where she was twice the winner. Eva Boto was only 15, when she applied to audition for the Mission Eurovision contest. The national broadcaster RTVSLO produced this series of programmes, which started on October 2nd, 2011 and ended this February, with only one goal in mind, to choose the singer who would represent Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest.

Convincing renditions of songs from Mariah Carey, Shaina Twain, Irene Cara, Leona Lewis and Darja Švajger made a huge impression on the members of the jury and audiences alike. In the end, Eva Boto won a landslide number of votes with the song Verjamem (I Believe), one of the three she sang on the final night of Mission EMA 2012.

Eva's favourite singer is Beyonce, but she likes 1980s and 1990s music as well. In her spare time, Eva plays guitar, plays with her dog and cat and, as every teenager loves to hang out with her friends. She's no stranger to computers and make-up, either. Eva enjoys cooking, especially baking. She is very emotional and sometimes shy. Her biggest bad habit is laziness. Eva's best friends and supporters in life and in her music career are her mother, father and elder sister Sanja. Eva describes her participation in Baku as her greatest life experience and challenge so far.
Vsak se komu v dar rodi,
s srečo ga mladost obsije,
a pride čas, nasmeh se pogreni,
upanje za hip mu skrije.
 
Le kdo ve, kaj je to življenje?
Sreča, ki vzdrži trpljenje?
Drug drugega v oči poglejmo,
ker lahko nas jutri več ne bo.
 
Vsi ljudje hitimo le,
kot, da se več ne poznamo,
radi imeli bi prav vse,
prav vse, kar je,
a prazni nas vse to, kar imamo.
 
Le kdo ve, kaj je to življenje?
Sreča, ki vzdrži trpljenje?
Drug drugega v oči poglejmo,
ker lahko nas jutri več ne bo.
 
Kaj je to življenje?
Sreča, ki vzdrži trpljenje?
Drug drugega v oči poglejmo,
ker lahko nas jutri več ne bo.
(english translation)

Everyone is born like a someone's gift,
Shined with a happiness of youth,
But the time has come with a bitter smile,
To hide a hope for a little while.
 
Who knows, what is the life?
A happiness, which can stands a suffer?
Let us look to each other eyes,
Being here tomorrow any longer.
 
Everyone in a simple hurry,
Without knowing a fellow one,
We would like to have it all,
To have it all and everything,
Everything, which make us empty.
 
Who knows, what is the life?
A happiness, which can stands a suffer?
Let us look to each other eyes,
Being here tomorrow any longer.
 
What is the life?
A happiness, which can stands a suffer?
Let us look to each other eyes,
Being here tomorrow any longer.