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The 12-year-old Lina Kuduzovič has just released the Slovenian preliminary round for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest won with the song ” Prva ljubezen (first love).

The preliminary round, titled Mini EMA, was completed as part of a popular program on Sunday afternoons on the Slovenian State broadcaster RTV SLO. The past two weeks there were two qualifying rounds, each with three candidates, of which the winner went to the final. Lina today won her only competitor in the race, Leni.

Lina is not on her test piece: in 2010, she won the talent show Slovenia’s Got Talentalready, and this year she won the final of the variant in her homeland Switzerland.

Another striking fact is that the team behind Prva ljubezen consists of Marjetka and Raay, either Maraaya, the duo that represented Slovenia on last song festival in Vienna. Also last year they composed all the Slovenian entry for the Junior Edition.

The thirteenth Junior Eurovision Song Contest takes place on Saturday 21st november in the Bulgarian capital Sofia.