in february 2008, hadley took part in the italian sanremo festival, where he duetted in both english and italian with contestant paolo meneguzzi on meneguzzi's song, "grande" (""big""), during the third day of the contest (where all contestants re-interpreted their songs with guest artists). on 22 february 2008, he performed as an interval act at the semi-final of dora 2008, the selection of the croatian entry for the eurovision song contest.