# Baby Lasagna
**Baby Lasagna** is the stage name of **Marko Purišić** (born 1995), a Croatian singer, songwriter, and music producer from [Umag](https://www.edgepedia.org/umag) who finished second at the [Eurovision Song Contest 2024](https://www.edgepedia.org/eurovision-song-contest-2024) with the song "Rim Tim Tagi Dim", giving Croatia its best-ever result in the contest[1](https://www.last.fm/music/Baby%2BLasagna) • [2](https://www.eurovision.com/stories/baby-lasagnas-first-steps-what-the-croatian-sensation-did-next/).
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Real name | Marko Purišić, born 1995, from Umag, Croatia[1](https://www.last.fm/music/Baby%2BLasagna) • [3](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/eurovision/eurovision-2024-baby-lasagna-croatia-song-lyrics-meaning-odds-b2543321.html) |
| Earlier career | Guitarist in the Croatian rock band Manntra, 2011–2016 and 2018–2022[1](https://www.last.fm/music/Baby%2BLasagna) |
| Eurovision 2024 | 2nd place with "Rim Tim Tagi Dim", 547 points, winner of the Grand Final televote; Croatia's best-ever result and highest-ever score[2](https://www.eurovision.com/stories/baby-lasagnas-first-steps-what-the-croatian-sensation-did-next/) |
| Path to Malmö | Submitted the song to Croatia's Dora 2024 selection as a reserve and entered only after a contestant withdrew; won the selection[4](https://yle.fi/a/74-20088092) |
| Record deal | Signed with Universal Music after the contest[2](https://www.eurovision.com/stories/baby-lasagnas-first-steps-what-the-croatian-sensation-did-next/) |
| Debut album | *DMNS & MOSQUITOES*, released 7 February 2025[5](https://www.universal-music.de/baby-lasagna/news/baby-lasagna-veroeffentlicht-sein-debuetalbum-dmns-mosquitoes-275108) |
| Domestic audience | 979,147 viewers, nearly 60% of Croatian television viewers, watched his Eurovision performance on HRT[6](https://www.sabor.hr/sites/default/files/uploads/sabor/2025-07-01/133302/IZVJ_HRT_2024.pdf) |
## Background and songwriting career
Before performing under his own name, Purišić built a career as a writer and guitarist. He played guitar in the Croatian rock band Manntra from 2011 to 2016 and again from 2018 to 2022; while he was in the band, Manntra took part in Croatia's Dora 2019 Eurovision selection, finishing fifth with "In the Shadows"[1](https://www.last.fm/music/Baby%2BLasagna). He left the group in 2022 and announced a solo career[1](https://www.last.fm/music/Baby%2BLasagna).
As a songwriter for other artists, he wrote for the German rock band [Mono Inc.](https://www.edgepedia.org/mono-inc), for the Croatian The Voice singer Marin Jurić Čivro, and for the Croatian singer Lea Mijatović[7](https://www.eurovision.com/stories/croatias-next-move-baby-lasagna-is-ready-to-serve/). In a 2024 interview with Croatian Radio-[Television](https://www.edgepedia.org/television) (HRT), he explained that his brother, a member of Mono Inc., recommended him when the band needed songs for the album *Ravenblack*; the song he submitted made him the band's first external writer, and the album took Mono Inc. to first place on the German album charts[8](https://magazin.hrt.hr/zabava/intervju-s-markom-purisicem-11461977). He named [Rammstein](https://www.edgepedia.org/rammstein) as a formative influence on his lyrics and, more recently, Twenty One Pilots[8](https://magazin.hrt.hr/zabava/intervju-s-markom-purisicem-11461977).
## The Baby Lasagna project
Purišić adopted the Baby Lasagna name in 2023 as the umbrella for a solo creative project[3](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/eurovision/eurovision-2024-baby-lasagna-croatia-song-lyrics-meaning-odds-b2543321.html) • [9](https://eurovision-spain.com/participante/baby-lasagna-2024/). He released his debut single, "IG Boy", in October 2023, followed in December 2023 by "Don't Hate Yourself, But Don't Love Yourself Too Much"[1](https://www.last.fm/music/Baby%2BLasagna) • [3](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/eurovision/eurovision-2024-baby-lasagna-croatia-song-lyrics-meaning-odds-b2543321.html). According to The Independent, the stage name came to him in what he described as a eureka moment while searching for a market in Novigrad to buy water[3](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/eurovision/eurovision-2024-baby-lasagna-croatia-song-lyrics-meaning-odds-b2543321.html).
His songwriting draws on autobiographical storytelling with tongue-in-cheek humor, and his music mixes pop punk, techno, metal, and house[3](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/eurovision/eurovision-2024-baby-lasagna-croatia-song-lyrics-meaning-odds-b2543321.html). The academic Catherine Baker describes his folk metal and industrial background as carrying through into "Rim Tim Tagi Dim", with strong Rammstein influences[10](https://bakercatherine.wordpress.com/2024/05/07/dont-cry-just-dance-baby-lasagna-croatian-folklore-politics-and-the-cruel-optimism-of-eurovision/).
## Dora 2024 and Eurovision
Purišić submitted "Rim Tim Tagi Dim" to Dora 2024, Croatia's national selection for the [Eurovision Song Contest](https://www.edgepedia.org/eurovision-song-contest), and was not initially chosen; he remained a reserve and entered the competition only after one contestant withdrew[4](https://yle.fi/a/74-20088092) • [11](https://eurovisionworld.com/esc/baby-lasagna-from-croatia-i-am-not-doing-eurovision-just-for-me). He won the final, taking the televote while placing third with the professional jury, whose vote was carried by the Swiss entry[9](https://eurovision-spain.com/participante/baby-lasagna-2024/).
At the 68th Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö in May 2024, "Rim Tim Tagi Dim" finished second with 547 points, winning the Grand Final televote; Switzerland's Nemo won with "The Code" on the strength of the national jury vote[2](https://www.eurovision.com/stories/baby-lasagnas-first-steps-what-the-croatian-sensation-did-next/) • [12](https://apnews.com/article/09e31963ed7db607ea137c9333eabf87). The result was Croatia's best-ever placement and its highest-ever score at the contest[2](https://www.eurovision.com/stories/baby-lasagnas-first-steps-what-the-croatian-sensation-did-next/). Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković, attending the final, called it the country's best result since independence in 1991[13](https://apnews.com/article/3cac68541bba210c3da404440b112741).
## "Rim Tim Tagi Dim"
The song is a rock and techno track about economic migration, addressing young Croatians leaving the country in search of a better life[3](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/eurovision/eurovision-2024-baby-lasagna-croatia-song-lyrics-meaning-odds-b2543321.html) • [12](https://apnews.com/article/09e31963ed7db607ea137c9333eabf87). Cats run through the song's imagery, lyrics, music video, merchandise, and stage backdrop[14](https://uceurovision.com/2024/05/03/1-croatia-rim-tim-tagi-dim-baby-lasagna/).
The song reached number 1 in Croatia and charted widely after the contest: Top 10 in Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland; Top 20 in Switzerland, Austria, Iceland, and [Luxembourg](https://www.edgepedia.org/luxembourg); number 36 in the United Kingdom; and number 139 on the US Billboard Global 200. It also entered the Top 5 of Spotify's Global Viral chart[2](https://www.eurovision.com/stories/baby-lasagnas-first-steps-what-the-croatian-sensation-did-next/). By late August 2024 it had been played almost 50 million times on Spotify, his two Eurovision performances had totaled 45 million YouTube views, and he was maintaining over a million monthly listeners 16 weeks after the contest[2](https://www.eurovision.com/stories/baby-lasagnas-first-steps-what-the-croatian-sensation-did-next/).
## After Eurovision
**Homecoming and signing.** Less than 24 hours after the Grand Final, broadcaster HRT staged a homecoming concert for Purišić at Ban Jelačić Square in Zagreb, televised live nationwide; over 10,000 supporters attended, far more than the roughly 20 fans he had expected to greet him at the airport[2](https://www.eurovision.com/stories/baby-lasagnas-first-steps-what-the-croatian-sensation-did-next/). Universal Music signed him to a record deal on the strength of the song's chart performance[2](https://www.eurovision.com/stories/baby-lasagnas-first-steps-what-the-croatian-sensation-did-next/).
**New music and touring.** The follow-up single "And I", a retro-styled love song with a 1960s-themed video, arrived at the end of June 2024, and "Biggie Boom Boom" followed on 30 August 2024[2](https://www.eurovision.com/stories/baby-lasagnas-first-steps-what-the-croatian-sensation-did-next/). His debut album *DMNS & MOSQUITOES* was released on 7 February 2025[5](https://www.universal-music.de/baby-lasagna/news/baby-lasagna-veroeffentlicht-sein-debuetalbum-dmns-mosquitoes-275108). The Meow Back tour of spring 2025 covered 26 shows in two months across 18 countries[2](https://www.eurovision.com/stories/baby-lasagnas-first-steps-what-the-croatian-sensation-did-next/).
**Other work.** He voiced the character Maurice in the Croatian dub of *The Garfield Movie* in May and June 2024, the same role Käärijä voiced in the Finnish dub, and published the picture book *Baby Lasagna i Mačak Stipe – Veliko Prijateljstvo* (Baby Lasagna and Stipe the Cat – A Great Friendship), later printed in English and German editions[2](https://www.eurovision.com/stories/baby-lasagnas-first-steps-what-the-croatian-sensation-did-next/).
**2026 direction.** In 2026 his sound moved in a heavier direction: the single "End The Party" was released on 13 February, followed by "Sedated" on 5 May and "Face On Your Phone", about online harassment and anonymity, on 7 August, with a second studio album scheduled for autumn 2026[15](https://kulttuuritalo.fi/tapahtuma/baby-lasagna-2/).
## References
1. [Baby Lasagna, Last.fm artist profile](https://www.last.fm/music/Baby%2BLasagna)
2. [Baby Lasagna's first steps: What the Croatian sensation did next, Eurovision Song Contest](https://www.eurovision.com/stories/baby-lasagnas-first-steps-what-the-croatian-sensation-did-next/)
3. [Eurovision 2024 final: Who is Croatia's entry Baby Lasagna?, The Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/eurovision/eurovision-2024-baby-lasagna-croatia-song-lyrics-meaning-odds-b2543321.html)
4. [Euroviisujen ennakkosuosikki Kroatian Baby Lasagna, Yle](https://yle.fi/a/74-20088092)
5. [Baby Lasagna veröffentlicht sein Debütalbum "DMNS & MOSQUITOES", Universal Music](https://www.universal-music.de/baby-lasagna/news/baby-lasagna-veroeffentlicht-sein-debuetalbum-dmns-mosquitoes-275108)
6. [Izvješće HRT-a za 2024., Hrvatski sabor](https://www.sabor.hr/sites/default/files/uploads/sabor/2025-07-01/133302/IZVJ_HRT_2024.pdf)
7. [Croatia's next move: Baby Lasagna is ready to serve, Eurovision Song Contest](https://www.eurovision.com/stories/croatias-next-move-baby-lasagna-is-ready-to-serve/)
8. [Intervju s Markom Purišićem: Od dark metala do Baby Lasagne, HRT Magazin](https://magazin.hrt.hr/zabava/intervju-s-markom-purisicem-11461977)
9. [Baby Lasagna, eurovision-spain.com](https://eurovision-spain.com/participante/baby-lasagna-2024/)
10. [Don't cry, just dance: Baby Lasagna, Croatian folklore politics, and the cruel optimism of Eurovision, Catherine Baker](https://bakercatherine.wordpress.com/2024/05/07/dont-cry-just-dance-baby-lasagna-croatian-folklore-politics-and-the-cruel-optimism-of-eurovision/)
11. [Baby Lasagna from Croatia: "I am not doing Eurovision just for me", EurovisionWorld](https://eurovisionworld.com/esc/baby-lasagna-from-croatia-i-am-not-doing-eurovision-just-for-me)
12. [Switzerland's Nemo wins 68th Eurovision Song Contest, Associated Press](https://apnews.com/article/09e31963ed7db607ea137c9333eabf87)
13. [Swiss fans get ready to welcome Eurovision winner Nemo back home, Associated Press](https://apnews.com/article/3cac68541bba210c3da404440b112741)
14. [Croatia: "Rim Tim Tagi Dim" – Baby Lasagna, UC Eurovision](https://uceurovision.com/2024/05/03/1-croatia-rim-tim-tagi-dim-baby-lasagna/)
15. [Baby Lasagna, Kulttuuritalo Helsinki](https://kulttuuritalo.fi/tapahtuma/baby-lasagna-2/)
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