San Marino: Una Voce per San Marino final tonight!

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After a marathon process, San Marino selects its representative at Eurovision 2022. Tonight takes place the grand final of Una Voce per San Marino.

Eighteen artists will take part in tonight’s final, with nine of them qualifying through yesterday’s final of the “rising artists” and the other nine being direct finalists. It is worth mentioning that normally 19 artists would participate in the final of Una Voce per San Marino, but the direct finalist, Blind, announced yesterday that he is facing some health problems that do not allow him to participate in the final.

Artists

The artists claiming to represent San Marino in Turin tonight are:

  • Francesco Monte 🇮🇹
  • Burak Yeter & Alessandro Coli 🇹🇷🇮🇹
  • Cristina Ramos 🇪🇸
  • Valerio Scanu 🇮🇹
  • Ivana Spagna 🇮🇹
  • Matteo Faustini 🇮🇹
  • Tony Cicco, Deshedus & Alberto Fortis 🇮🇹
  • Fabry & Labiuse ft. Miodio 🇸🇲
  • Achille Lauro 🇮🇹
  • Mate
  • Elena & Francesco Faggi
  • Maria Chiara Leoni
  • Alessia Labate
  • Vina Rose
  • Kurt Cassar
  • Sebastian Schmidt
  • Camille Cabaltera
  • Aaron Sibley

The final selection will be based on the preference of a jury that will select the winner.

Presenters of the grand final of Una Voce per San Marino will be Senhit and Jonathan Kashanian.

Tonight’s final starts at 22:00 and will last three hours. You can watch it through the San Marino RTV site by clicking HERE.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all developments regarding San Marino’s participation in Eurovision 2022!

Slovenia: EMA 2022 Final tonight!

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EMA 2022: last act! One week after the second semifinal of the Slovenian national final, the grand final of EMA 2022 is taking place today, in which the representative of Slovenia in Eurovision 2022 will be chosen.

Format

EMA 2022 consists of two semifinals and one final. In each semifinal, eight artists and two artists from EMA FREŠ competed for qualification to the final. The public vote selected three of the finalists and the jury selected the other three. In the final, a five-member jury (50%) and the public (50%) will decide which of the 12 finalists will represent Slovenia in Turin.

The participants

Twelve artists will take part in tonight’s grand final of EMA 2022, all aiming for the victory. These artists are:

  1. Anabel – “Tendency“
  2. Stela Sofia – “Tu in zdaj“
  3. Manouche – “Si sama?“
  4. Leya Leanne – “Naked“
  5. BQL – “Maj“
  6. Gušti feat. Leyre – “Nova romantika“
  7. July Jones – “Girls Can Do Anything“
  8. David Amaro – “Še vedno si lepa“
  9. LPS – “Disko“
  10. Hauptman – “Sledim“
  11. Luma – “All In“
  12. Batista Cadillac – “Mim pravil“

The second semifinal of EMA 2022 will start at 20:20 CET and will last two hours. You can watch it on the TV SLO 1 frequency by clicking HERE.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all news regarding Slovenia’s participation in Eurovision 2022!

 

Sweden: 3rd Semifinal of Melodifestivalen 2022 takes place tonight!

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Melodifestivalen 2022: act three! Third semifinal today for the selection process of Sweden’s participation in Eurovision 2022. As is known, five semifinals and the grand final will keep us company until March 12, when we will have the official selection of Sweden’s representative in Eurovision 2022.

In tonight’s third semifinal, seven entries claim the two tickets to the final, while two more entries will have the chance to compete in the fifth semifinal on March 5th.

The finalists

Four artists have already secured their presence in the grand final of Melodifestivalen 2022. These artists are:

The contestants

The artists taking part in tonight’s semi final are the following:

  1. Cazzi Opeia – I Can´t Get Enough 
  2. Lancelot – Lyckligt slut 
  3. Lisa Miskovsky – Best to Come  
  4. Tribe Friday – Shut Me Up
  5. Faith Kakembo – Freedom 
  6. Linda Bengtzing – Fyrfaldigt hurra!
  7. Anders Bagge – Bigger Than The Universe 

Oscar Zia will be the presenter of all six shows of Melodifestivalen 2022.

Tonight’s third semifinal, like all other shows, will be held in Stockholm due to the outbreak of the Omicron variant in Sweden. The venue for the second semi-final of Melodifestivalen is the Avicii Arena, better known to Eurofans as the Globe Arena that hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 2000 and 2016.

The second semifinal of Melodifestivalen 2022 will start at 20:00 CET and will last one and a half hour. You can watch it through the SVT frequency by clicking HERE.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all news regarding Sweden’s participation in Eurovision 2022!

Sweden: The general rehearsal of the Third Melodifestivalen 2022 Semi-Final! (Live)

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The general rehearsal of the Third Melodifestivalen 2022 Semi-Final has just started. We are happy to be watching it live, at the SVT online press centre. We will be covering this rehearsal, describing in detail what is happening during the show, for you to follow the entire process.

This article is being updated in real-time, all you need to do is hit the refresh button on your browser and all the rest is on us!

We will keep you up to date with all the latest information and images off this semi-final rehearsal, allowing you to get a glimpse of what you will get to see tomorrow February 12, at 20:00 CET, when you watch the actual semi-final show on SVT and SVT Play.

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Eurovision 2022: RAI unveiled the first designs of the stage!

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RAI, the host broadcaster for the 66th Eurovision Song Contest, has unveiled the impressive stage our 41 artists will be performing on in Turin this May.

As you read in our exclusive article months ago, acts can look forward to taking to The Sun Within – an ambitious new stage concept based on the movements and light of a kinetic sun.

Eurovision fans will witness a spectacular stage with the ability to showcase theatrical motion, which is framed by water and will have a lush Italian garden lapping up the rays in front of it.

Eurovision 2022: This is what the contest stage will be like | EXCLUSIVE

Multimedia artist and stage designer Francesca Montinaro is the creative talent behind the design, which will present each of our 41 participating artists in a unique way, as they perform their songs to the rest of the world.

The kinetic sun, source of spectacular movements and tricks of light, rules the stage and represents our Italian attitude: always on the move, rebellious, creative, welcoming, passionate, intuitive. We are the ones with the sun within, and this is our way to be in this world!

Viewers tuning in to the 66th edition of Eurovision Song Contest – taking place in Turin on 10, 12 and 14 May – can look forward to becoming immersed in a breathtaking new visual experience, alongside the usual diverse musical soundscape that Eurovision fans have long cherished the contest for. RAI enthuses that the stage is both classic and modern at the same time, and manages to blend the digital with the analogue, demonstrating a range of light and movement.

A positive development, of course, is that looking at the photos released today by RAI, we notice that there is a forecast for the presence of the audience, in front of the stage. Just like before the pandemic. Normalcy returns to the Eurovision contest!

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the newss related to our favorite contest!

Source: Eurovision.tv

 

Iceland: Interview with Stefanía Svavarsdóttir | With a song about parental love in Söngvakeppnin 2022! (Video)

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After the announcement of her taking in Söngvakeppnin 2022, Stefanía Svavarsdóttir speaks exclusively to EurovisionFun and Apostolis Matamis.

Stefanía Svavarsdóttir is one of the finalists of the national final of Iceland, Söngvakeppnin 2022 with the song “Heart of Mine“.

I was called from the composer of the track, with whom I have collaborated in the past. He is fantastic and I decided to make this step without hesitation. I hadn’t even heard the song but I knew it would be great. Watching the contest last year with his daughter, she asked him when is he going to take part in the contest. He had never thought about it and he did it for her. “Heart of Mine”  speaks about the parental love towards their children. I also have two little kids and I honestly felt the song when I read the lyrics, they are wonderful! It means a lot to me.  

In the semi-final of the national final, Stefanía as the rules want it, she will compete with the Icelandic version of the song “Hjartað mitt“:

We wanted, other than the English version, a little part in Icelandic. So that our children can understand by listening to it. Because a specific part is exclusively for them.

She has already started making preparations for the staging of the semi-final of  Söngvakeppnin 2022.

It will be a powerful performance. Thanks to the lyrics, it will be a personal performance and full of emotions. 

Stefanía has taken part in the national final five more times, also by taking part in the vocals of a competing song.

From the competing songs, she likes Suncity and Sanna.

Her favorite Icelandic songs are that of  Selma (1999) and ICY (1986) while from the contest in general the song that stands out for her is that of Salvador Sobral (Portugal 2017).

If she could collaborate with a Eurostar that would be Marija Šerifović (Serbia 2007).

Sometime before the end of the interview, Stefanía Svavarsdóttir offered us a part of her song acapella.

Watch the exclusive interview with Stefanía Svavarsdóttir in the following video:

Listen to “Heart of Mine“, the song of Stefanía Svavarsdóttir for Söngvakeppnin 2022!

 

Australia: Listen to all the competing songs of Australia Decides 2022!

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The last three songs that fill out the puzzle of the eleven finalists of this year’s Australia Decides were published and now the line-up of the artists competing to be the representative of Australia in Eurovision 2022 in Turin is completed.

The eleven artists that claim the representation of the country are:

  1. Isaiah Firebrace, Evie Irie – “When I’m With You”
  2. Jaguar Jonze – “LITTLE FIRES”
  3. Paulini – “We Are One”
  4. Andrew Lambrou – “Electrify”
  5. Sheldon Riley –  “Not the Same”
  6. G-Nat!on –  “Bite Me”
  7. Sean Miley Moore – “My Body”
  8. Voyager Australia – “Dreamer”
  9. Charley – “I Suck At Being Lonely”
  10. Jude York – “I Won’t Need to Dream”
  11. Erica Padilla – “To The Bottom”

The National Final:

The eleven candidates will compete in Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre on February 26 for the representation of Australia in Eurovision 2022. After the great success of Eurovision: Australia Decides, SBS decided on keeping the concept of the national final the same for 2022

The hosts of this year’s national final will be, the radio producer and host Myf Warhurst and the comedian Joel Creasey, who will also take the broadcast of the competition in May 2022 upon themselves  on behalf of SBS.

The last winner of Australia Decides was Montaigne with the song “Don’t Break Me”. After the cancellation of the 2020 contest she was internally selected to represent Australia in 2021 with the song “Technicolour”.

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the Australian participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy!

Sweden: Watch clips from the first rehearsals of the third Melodifestivalen 2022 semi-final!

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As usual, a few hours before each Melodifestivalen semi-final, SVT published the rehearsal clips of all seven competing artists of the third semi-final of February the 19th.

A while ago, the 30 second rehearsal clips of the upcoming semi-final got published! You can watch the published clips, by clicking on the song title links below:

The competing songs of the third semi-final:

The lyrics of the songs were published on Tuesday February 15th, which you can read in more detail, in our corresponding article.

The process

Two songs will directly qualify to the grand final of Melodifestivalen 2022, which will take place on the 12th of March. The songs that will place third and fourth will have to compete again, at the fifth semi-final, held on the 5th of March. There will be four semi-finals in total.

Oscar Zia presents all the shows of Melodifestivalen 2022, while due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the shows for the national selection process that will represent Sweden in Turin this year, will be held exclusively in Stockholm!

Melodifestivalen 2022 finals will he held on the 12th of March, when we will get to know who will be selected as a representative for Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin!

The detailed schedule of Melodifestivalen 2022 is described below:

  • First Semi-Final on the 5th of February, at the Avicii Arena
  • Second Semi-Final on the 12th of February, at the Avicii Arena
  • Third Semi-Final on the 19th of February, at the Avicii Arena
  • Fourth Semi-Final on the 26th of February, at Friends Arena
  • Fifth Semi-Final on the 5th of March, at Friends Arena
  • The Final on the 12th of March, at Friends Arena

Stay tuned at Eurovisionfun, for all the latest developments regarding Sweden’s entry for Eurovision 2022!

Россия: Dream Team в Москве перед окончательным выбором!

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Дрим Тим (Димитрис Контопулос и Илиас Кокотос) находится в Москве, судя по их аккаунтам в социальных сетях. Эта поездка в российскую столицу является ключевой в связи с представлением страны на Евровидении 2022.

Не секрет, что каждый второй год, когда Россия 1 берет на себя участие России в конкурсе, канал сотрудничает с Dream Team, что на самом деле приносит им много хороших результатов до сих пор. Также не секрет, что одним из имен, с которыми Dream Team хотела бы сотрудничать на Евровидении 2022, является суперзвезда Клава Кока. На самом деле, певица была в Афинах несколько месяцев назад и в студии Димитриса Контопулоса, вероятно, записала потенциальную песню для конкурса.

Конечно, ничего не следует принимать на веру, так как если артист, которого выбрала Россия 1, не удовлетворит Dream Team в качестве выбора, то совсем не исключено, что они в конечном итоге не поедут на конкурс от страны.

Пока неясно, какими будут решения как российского общественного телевидения, так и Dream Team. Однако пришло время окончательного решения!

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Russia: Dream Team is in Moscow in view of the final choice for the country’s representation!

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The Dream Team (Dimitris Kontopoulos and Ilias Kokotos) is in Moscow, as we see through their social network accounts. This trip to the Russian capital is the most important one, in relation to the representation of the country in Eurovision 2022.

It is no secret that every second year, when channel Russia 1 undertakes the participation of Russia in the competition, the channel cooperates with the Dream Team, which in fact has brought them a lot of good results so far. It is also no secret that one of the names with which the Dream Team would like to collaborate for Eurovision 2022 is the superstar Klava Koka. In fact, Klava Koka was in Athens a few months ago, recording in the studio of Dimitris Kontopoulos, probably a potential song for the competition.

Of course, nothing should be taken for granted, since if the artist who Russia 1 has chosen does not satisfy the Dream Team as a choice, then it is not at all unlikely that they will eventually not be chosen for this year’s Russian participation.

It remains to be seen what the decisions of both the Russian public television and the Dream Team will be. The time for the final decision in Russia has arrived!

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the developments regarding the Russian participation in Eurovision 2022!