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Sara Briski Cirman, better known by her stage name Raiven, is a Slovenian mezzo-soprano, pop singer, songwriter, and harpist. She first garnered wide recognition while competing to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 for Slovenia during the national final Evrovizijska Melodija (EMA) with the song "Crno bel", where she placed second. Raiven went on to return to EMA in 2017, placing third with the song "Zazarim", and has competed again in 2019 with the song "Kaos", placing second. In 2024, she was selected to represent Slovenia at the contest with the song "Veronika". She released her debut album "Magenta" in 2017 and later received an award, given by the Slovenian Cultural and Artistic Association for achievements in Slovenian popular music Zlata Piscal in the category Record of the Year. In the second half of 2018, she began working with songwriters and producers at Metropolis Studios (London). As a result of her work there, she released an EP album REM, which has received critical and public acclaim. On July 4, 2019, she performed on the Fusion Stage stage at the Exit Festival in Novi Sad, on the evening when the organizers listed the most visitors in the history of the festival - over 56,000. At the end of 2019, she performed at numerous high-profile events, including as a soloist with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, the RTV Slovenia Big Band, the Slovenian Baroque Orchestra and the Slovenian Police Orchestra. In February 2020, she performed her original composition Ti with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra at the Ljubljana Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet, under the baton and adaptation of Matija Krecic. On 11 September 2021, she performed the song "Vokovi" at the Popevka 21 festival, with which she won the Grand Audience Award causing her song to receive the title Popevka 2021. In 2021 she also finished her master's degree at the Ljubljana's Academy of Music, majoring in opera-solo singing. In 2022, she presented a new electro-opera concert project, in which she combined classical opera arias with electronic pop. Part of this project, entitled Doloroso, was presented at a sold-out concert on March 8, 2022, at Cankar Centre. She returned to the Popevka festival in 2023 as a hostess, and together with her co-host Helena Blagne, she introduced her new song "Ikona".
