Yugoslavia was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1991 with the song "Brazil" , composed by Zoran VraÃÂrviÃÂ, with lyrics by Dragana à  ariÃÂ, and performed by à  ariàherself under her stage name Bebi Dol. The Yugoslavian participating broadcaster, (JRT), organized a national final, , to select its entry for the contest. This was the penultimate entry from Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest.
TV Sarajevo (TVSa) staged the Yugoslav national final on 9 March 1991 at its television Studio A in Sarajevo, hosted by Draginja Balaàand Senad Hadà ¾ifejzoviÃÂ. The formal name of the contest was . There were 16 songs in the final, from all subnational public broadcasters. This was the final participation for the broadcasters in Croatia, Macedonia, and Slovenia before the countries declared their independence later in the same year.
The winner was chosen by the votes of twenty-four jurors coming from eight broadcasting stations, one three-member jury for each of the subnational public broadcasters of JRT. Each jury was consisted of at least two professionals within the music industry, and one under age of 30. Each of the jurors gave points to their favorite songs according to a system with the ascending format of going from 1âÂÂ3, 5 and finally 7 points. The subnational public broadcasters could vote for their own entries. The winning entry was "", performed by Serbian singer Bebi Dol, composed by Zoran VraÃÂeviàand written by Bebi Dol herself.
The tensions in Yugoslavia at the time were showing through . The contest was held under the presumption that an entry from Croatian Radiotelevision (HTV) wouldn't win the contest, with high tensions between the Yugoslav federal institutions led by the Serbian president Slobodan Miloà ¡eviàand the Croatian president Franjo TuÃÂman. With Miloà ¡eviàexerting control over institutions Montenegro, Vojvodina and Kosovo - including the broadcasters - the three broadcasters were pressured to vote in a similar fashion to Serbian TV Belgrade (TVBg). The winning song, "Brazil" by Bebi Dol, received points from Belgrade (Serbia), Titograd (Montenegro), Novi Sad (Vojvodina) and Prià ¡tina (Kosovo), and received no points from Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Skopje (Macedonia) and Zagreb (Croatia). The favourite candidate from Croatia, "Daj, obuci levisice" by Danijel PopoviÃÂ, received no points from Belgrade and Prià ¡tina.
Bebi Dol was the first performer on the night of the contest, preceding . At the close of the voting the song had received only 1 point, coming 21st in the field of 22 competing countries, beating only Austria. The Yugoslav jury awarded its 12 points to Israel.
The contest was broadcast on TV Belgrade 1, TVCG 1, TV Novi Sad, TV Prishtina with commentary by , and on HTV 1, TV Sarajevo 1, (commentary by Mià ¡a Molk), TV Skopje 1 with commentary by Ksenija UrliÃÂiÃÂ.