Darja Švajger (born 16 June 1965 in Maribor, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia) is one of Slovenia's most popular singers, best known for having represented her country in the Eurovision Song Contest on two occasions.
After finishing secondary school, she entered the College of Music and attended art classes in Graz, Austria, where she studied classical solo singing and jazz.
Already during her studies she had started performing as a solo vocalist with various bands and symphony orchestras.
Slovene broadcaster RTVSLO had high hopes and indeed the song was in first place at the beginning of the voting; it even got a highest score of 12 points from Ireland and Croatia.
The song finally scored a total of 50 points and was ranked 11th among the 23 entries.