Biography
-
Years Active
2023 – present (1 year)
-
Founded In
Zagreb, Croatia
Dino Jelusić (born 4 June 1992), also known by his stage name Dino Jelusick, is a Croatian singer, musician, and songwriter. He is the founder, principal songwriter, and lead singer of the progressive rock band Animal Drive, which was formed in 2012 and since 2017 has been signed to Frontiers Records. Since 2016, Jelusick has been a touring member for the American rock band Trans-Siberian Orchestra. He was the winner of the inaugural edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, in 2003.
Jelusick also released an album under Dirty Shirley along with guitarist George Lynch back in January 2020. Dino was also featured singer on two songs on Magnus Karlsson‘s “Free Fall” album. In 2020, Dino joined ex-Krokus members and Mandy Mayer (Gotthard, Asia, Unisonic) for a concert project named Gotus and they released a video for the song “Souls Alive” (Unisonic). In July 2021, Jelusick joined Whitesnake as a backing vocalist. In March 2022, Jelusick teamed up with Michael Romeo, performing all vocals on Romeo's solo album War of the Worlds, Pt. 2. In 2022, Dino joined The Dead Daisies tour replacing Glenn Hughes who got unwell at the end of November 2022.
A two-year long legal battle with Dino’s ex-label was over and he immediately started recording new songs for his band Jelusick, consisting of Dino (lead vocals, acoustic guitars, keyboards), Ivan Keller (guitars), Luke Broderick (bass) and Mario Lepoglavec (drums) , releasing their debut album 'Follow The Blind Man via Escape Music Ltd. on September 29, 2023.
Artist descriptions on Last.fm are editable by everyone. Feel free to contribute!
All user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
