The official music video of the Lithuanian entry for Eurovision 2022, “Sentimentai” by Monika Liu, has just been released.
We remind you that Monika Liu won the lithuanian national final Pabandom iš naujo 2022! and therefore the ticket to Turin, last Saturday, 12/02.
You can watch the music video below:
https://youtu.be/acya6UcJP1k
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It has just been announced that the Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Public Television will meet this Friday, February 18th, to decide on the situation that has arisen around the national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest.
The Supervisory Board of the Public Television of Ukraine, consisting of representatives of the parliamentary parties of the country and responsible for all important decisions of the organization, was convened at a meeting on Friday, February 18th, to discuss developments regarding the participation of Alina Pash, winner of the national final Vidbir for Eurovision 2022.
We remind you that the authenticity of the documents submitted by Alina Pash, regarding her visit to Crimea or Russia, is publicly disputed, about which you can read in detail here.
If it turns out that Alina visited Crimea without permission from the Ukrainian authorities, but from the Russian ones, then her victory in the national final will be canceled, as this is something that is forbidden by the ukrainian regulations.
Therefore, we will find out on Friday if Alina Pash will receive the green light to represent Ukraine in Turin. In case of her cancellation, of course, it remains to be seen whether one of the other finalists will be selected or whether the case of 2019 will be repeated, when Ukraine eventually decided to withdraw from the competition.
Alina Pash won the national final Vidbir 2022 on Saturday 12/02 with the song “Tini zabutykh predkiv (Тіні забутих предків) / Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”.
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The Belgian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 is almost ready, as Jérémie Makiese releases behind-the-scenes recordings.
The song with which Jérémie Makiese will represent Belgium at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy is almost ready. The singer posted on Instagram an excerpt of his song for the contest, but the release date for the song has yet to be announced.
Δείτε αυτή τη δημοσίευση στο Instagram.
Jérémie Makiese is a 20 years old geology student and singer from Berchem. He was born in Antwerp but at the age of 6 his family moved to Berchem-Sainte-Agathe then to Dilbeek before settling in Uccle. Jérémie speaks both Dutch and French. He is known to the Belgian audience as the winner of the 9th season of The Voice Belgique where he was coached by B.J. Scott. He was crowned as the winner of the show on 13th of April. Some of his performances include “Jealous” by labirinth, “Revival” by Gregory Porter together with his mentor B.J.Scott and “Earth Song” by Michael Jackson.
What are your expectations of Jérémie Makiese representing Belgium at Eurovision? Let us know your impressions in the comments below!
Source: RTBF
Today, on the show “Good morning, Azerbaijan” aired on Public Television, the singer and head of the Azerbaijani delegation, Isa Malikov, participated as a guest. During the show, he told the public that the artist who will represent Azerbaijan at Eurovision this year is Nadir Rüstəmli. He also mentioned that about 300 songs were sent, where they will select the 6 best songs and they will all be performed by Nadir Rüstəmli.
Nadir is 22 years old, born on July 8, 1999 in the Salyan area. Graduated from Azerbaijan University of Tourism Management. Although he has been working professionally with music for 4 years, he has been working in this field for 7 years. Apart from singing, he composes, plays the piano and guitar, but is also involved in sports.
She has participated in many domestic competitions, such as the National Student Spring 2019 song contest (first place) and the YouthVision 2019 international song contest (second place). In addition, he is the winner of this year’s “Voice of Azerbaijan”.
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Being a selected artist for this year’s Croatian national final, Dora 2022, Marko Bošnjak speaks exclusively to EurovisionFun and Apostolos Bogiannos and Apostolis Matamis.
Marko is one of the finalists of the Croatian national final for Eurovision 2022, and will try to represent his country with the song “Moli za nas“.
I have been thinking about participating in Eurovision since I was a child. I always watched the competition with my whole family and I wanted to be on this huge stage. When I was in high school and I was dreaming of becoming a singer I felt it was the right time. And now that I has been selected for the national final, I feel that I am closer than ever, as long as I win. “Moli za nas” expresses a general message, about the issues someone faces regarding the acceptance of his own personal identity in our the society, nowadays . It’s about the world we have to build in a way and it’s a very emotional message from me, through a song that reflects my feelings at the moment. The fact that it is in Croatian, may make it even more emotional and beloved in the world and it will stay that way, in case I win and go to Eurovision. The song was not written from the beginning for the competition, however, listening to the demo we thought that with the appropriate stage presence it would be an excellent choice for this purpose.
Marco did not hesitate to speak about his staging in the final:
You should expect a dramatic and mysterious appearance with various effects. I will be alone on stage and all the effects will take place behind me. I really want to show you the result because it is truly wonderful. I can not wait. It’s going to be a really good look at global standards.
Among the co-nominated songs of the national final, that of Tia has stood out.
Her favorite Croatian entry is that of Severina (2006). The participation of Go_A (Ukraine 2021), Ruslana (Ukraine 2004), Loreen (Sweden 2012) and Loïc Nottet (Belgium 2015) stands out from the competition in general.
In 2015 he competed in the second round of the Serbian show Pinkove Zvezdice, something that gave him valuable experiences thanks to the opportunities he had to be on a stage with several eurotars when he was only eleven years old.
When asked if he would like to perform a duet with a star of the competition, he stated that this was undoubtedly Mahmood (Italy 2019, 2022)
Shortly before the end of the interview, Marco gave us a part of his participation.
Watch the full exclusive interview of Marko Bošnjak in the video below:
Here is “Moli za nas”, his entry in Dora 2022.
We remind you that Croatia is going to perform in the 2nd Semifinal!
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The Palace of Venaria has been confirmed as the venue for the Opening Ceremony of the Eurovision Song Contest.
The former Royal residence, the Palace of Veneria has been announced as the venue for the Opening Ceremony for the 66th Eurovision Song Contest. The Palace which was first built in 1675 has been on the UNESCO Heritage List since 1997 and is now the 6th most visited museum in Italy as of 2019.
Guido Curto, director of the Consorzio Residenze Reali Sabaude, confirmed to local RAI news that they will host the Opening Ceremony on May 8. Mayor Fabio Giulivi added:
Eurovision will surely represent a beautiful business card; the city will have to live up to knowing how to exploit it with a series of events that will also be brought to our territory.
The Eurovision Song Contest returns to Italy this year following Måneskin’s victory at the 2021 contest with their song “Zitti e Buoni”. The 2022 contest will be hosted in Turin on 10th, 12th, and 14th May at the PalaOlimpico.
Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for all the news on the way to Turin!
Source: Eurofestivalnews
Today we may have had the announcement of the date of Eurovision France: C’est Vous Qui Décidez 2022, but a while ago the participants who were going to compete also leaked.
It seems that France TV rushed to announce the entries, uploading the list of participants and the songs on their site. More specifically, the participations that appeared are the following:
In any case, we’re going to listen to the live version of all the songs tomorrow, February 16th.
In 2021, France represented by Barbara Pravi and Voila, taking the 2nd olace with 499 points.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unj9WbeLzRU
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New episode today, for the new circle of the series of Ukraine crisis at Eurovision which has premiered a few hours after the completion of the Ukrainian national final, Vidbir 2022, and has to do again with Alina Pash.
This time the source of the news is the official Instagram account of the public broadcaster of Ukraine for Eurovision, where has been posted that the State Border Service did not issue any documentation regarding entrance in Crimea through the Ukrainian territory, which Alina is supposed to have submitted, according to journalists reporting from the State Border Service.
Δείτε αυτή τη δημοσίευση στο Instagram.
At this point we are reminding you that the legitimacy of Alina’s documents has been under question two days after her victory at Vidbir 2022, for which you can read more here.
On Saturday 12/2 Alina Pash won the national selection of Ukraine with the entry “Tini zabutykh predkiv (Тіні забутих предків)/ Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”.
Do you think that eventually Alina will fly the flag of this long-suffering country in Turin? Will it be an other Vidbir participant or Ukraine will withdraw for the third time from the contest? Let us know your opinion in the comments.
Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun.com for all the updates regarding the Ukrainian participation at the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, Italy.
After a long wait, the date of Eurovision France: C’est Vous Qui Décidez 2022 was announced today! The final will take place on Saturday, March 5 at 21:10 CET and will be broadcast by France 2. The hosts will be Laurence Boccolini and Stéphane Bern.
We remind you that the official announcement of the candidates of Eurovision France: C’est Vous Qui Décidez 2022 will take place tomorrow, February 16.
France came very close to victory in 2021 with Barbara Pravi and Voilà. The artist finished in second place with 499 points.
https://youtu.be/Unj9WbeLzRU
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The Estonian public broadcaster, ERR published the full results of the semi-finals and the final of Eesti Laul 2022.
Eesti Laul’s favourite artist was Stefan, whose song “Hope” received the most votes in both rounds of the final, the second semi-final and the quarter-final!
The audience had a say in all of the first 4 quarter finals, with an average of 8,000 votes for each show. Boamadu received the most votes in the first quarter-final of Eesti Laul, Andrei Zevakini along with Grete Paia received the most votes in the second quarter-final, Stefan proved to be the public favourite in the third quarter-final and Black Velvet in the fourth quarter-final. The jury favourites were Jaagup Tuisk (1st quarter-final), Kaia-Liisa Kesler (2nd quarter-final), Merilin Mälk (3rd quarter-final) and Ott Lepland (4th quarter-final) respectively.
In the first semi-final, Elysa collected the most votes from the audience (5206 votes), while in second place were Andrei Zevakin and Grete Paia (2521 votes) and in third place was Elina Netsayeva (2414 votes). The top three of the jury included Stig Rästa, Kaia-Liisa Kesler and Ott Lepland.
The results of the first semi-final were:
The second round vote, which crowned Elina Nechayeva, was as follows:
In the second semi-final, this year’s winner won the public’s sympathy where Stefan received 4,752 votes. He was followed by Anna Sahlene (2583 votes) and Black Velvet (2261 votes). Stefan, Anna Sahlene and Jaagup Tuisk made up the top three of the jury for the second semi-final.
The results of the second semi-final were:
Stefan – “Hope” – (1st in public), 1st in jury = 24 points
Anna Sahlene – “Champion” – (2nd in public), 2nd in jury = 20 points
Black Velvet – “Sandra” – (3rd in the public), 5th in the jury = 14 points
Jaagup Tuisk – “Kui vaid” – (6th in public), 3rd in the jury = 13 points
Minimal Wind, Elisabeth – “What to Make of This” – (4th in the public), 6th in the jury = 12 points
Maian – “Meeletu” – (8th in the public), 4th in the jury = 10 points
Boamadu – “Mitte kauaks” (5th in public), 8th in jury = 9 points
Púr Múdd and Shira – “Golden Shores” – (9th in the public), 7th in the jury = 6 points
Evelin Samuel – “Waterfall” (7th in public), 10th in the jury = 5 points
Jyrise – “Plaksuta” – (10th in public), 9th in the jury = 3 points
The second round voting crowned Minimal Wind and Elisabeth Tiffany as the last qualifiers, the results were as follows:
In the first round of the final a total of 69,514 votes were casted and in the super final 57,472 votes were casted. In the first round of the final, Stefan (19,641 votes) was followed by Elysa (14,747 votes), Minimal Wind ft. Elisabeth Tiffany (7699 votes), Black Velvet (7463 votes) and Anna Sahlene (5668 votes) in terms of the number of votes. The top three of the international jury included Minimal Wind ft. Elisabeth Tiffany, Stefan and Anna Sahlene.
The results of the first part of the final were as follows:
In the Eesti Laul super final, Stefan collected 35,681 votes for “Hope“. Minimal Wind with Elisabeth Tiffany received 17.587 votes while Elysa received only 3.929 votes.
Estonia will therefore be represented by the Estonian-Armenian Stefan Airapetjan and “Hope” which was his 4th attempt at Eesti Laul! You can see his winning performance here:
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Source: ETV
