Azerbaijan: Nurlana Jafarova will serve as Head of Delegation for Eurovision 2025!

Azerbaijan will be making changes to its Eurovision 2025 team. It has been decided that Nurlana Jafarova will now serve as the Head of Delegation.

Jafarova, an Azeri presenter, served as the national Eurovision delegation’s Head of Press until recently. Since 2006, Nurlana Jafarova has been involved in radio and television. She had previously held positions as director of 106 FM radio from 2014 to 2016, chief editor of Azerbaijan Television’s Music and Entertainment Programs from 2017 to 2020, and presenter at Public Television. She served as İctimai’s television commentator for the 2024 Eurovision contest, and in 2018, she was a member of the national jury.

Additionally, Maksim Tsirkov, the director of İctimai Television’s department of International Relations, will now advice the Director General of İctimai on all issues related to the Eurovision Song Contest.

Azerbaijan in Eurovision 2025

154 entries were submitted to İctimai Television in total, as it was revealed after the submission window closed on September 15. Notably, the broadcaster observed an increase in the number of Azerbaijani composers expressing interest; last year, their participation rate was 43%; this year, it is 49%, accounting for nearly half of the submissions.

Although, there is no further information about the progress of this selection stage, it seems that İTV will first review the entries submitted. Then and if last year’s procedure is followed, we can assume that the broadcaster will test its Eurovision candidates’ vocal and performance skills. The candidate who has the best song and can deliver it vocal and performance wise, will be the one to represent the nation to Basel.

Fahree and Ilkin Dovlatov, were İTV’s picks for Eurovision 2024 with their song “Özünlə apar”. Unfortunately, the duo did not manage to qualify for the Grand Final for the second consecutive year.

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Source: INFE Azerbaijan