Georgia: The search of the next representative begins tonight

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Tonight,the “Georgian Idol“,the show through which Georgia will select its representative to the upcoming Eurovision song contest in May 2020, begins.

It is essentially the first national final of the season, and it will be the second year in a row that GPB, Georgian public broadcaster, will select the country’s representative through Georgian Idol.

The four-member panel, composed of Natia Todua, Tinatin Berdzenishvili, David Evgenidze and David Aladashvili, will select the candidates for the first hearing for the next round.

You can watch the show by pressing here at 19:00 (CET time).

Georgia at Eurovision

Georgia first appeared in the competition in 2007. Only abstained in 2009 and already counts 5 blockbusters in the Grand Final and 2 places in the final top 10. In 2019, Oto Nemsadze represented the country with the song “Keep on going”, but failed to qualify as he finished  finish 14th in the semifinals.

Georgia: Listen to “We Need A Love” for Junior Eurovision 2019

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Georgia’s public broadcaster,GPB has released the song with which Giorgi Rostiashvili will compete in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019. The winner of the national finale “Ranina” will perform “We Need A Love”, written by Davit Evgenidze.

The video clip of the song was directed by Zaza Orashvili and we see other Ranina participants in it.

Giorgi was selected to represent Georgia through the “Ranina”, which was completed on May 26 at the Freedom Square in Tbilisi.

At the end of 2018, GPB launched the second release of ‘Ranina’. This season included ten episodes-concerts in which the ten nominees had to show their vocal abilities by singing alongside famous Georgian artists and a live orchestra. All the results were decided by a professional jury led by Dato Evgenidze.

https://youtu.be/jiLlNU8Nlrg

Georgia: the known format of « Georgia’s Star » to be used again

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Georgia has made its debut in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2007, and since then, with only one absence (2009), has been a non-stop member of the institution with its better position to be the ninth (2010 and 2011).

The procedure followed since then for the representative selection has been shifted from a direct assignment to a national final without having resulted in a permanent procedure.  Last year, after years of national finals, GPB,the national broadcaster decided to send Iriao by selecting them internally, and this year, in Israel, they chose the Pop Idol method for choosing its representative, with Oto Nemsadze finally signing “Keep on going”.

About two months after the end of the 64th Eurovision, GPB announced that Georgia’s star, the Georgian version of the Pop Idol, will be again used for representative ‘ selection in the Netherlands, as it did last year.

Applications have already begun and whoever interested can submit applications here.

With an anti-Russian message, Georgia’s entries in 2015 and 2019

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While tensions between Russia and Georgia have increased recently, two former Georgian Eurovision representatives have revealed that the message of their entries in the contest was purely anti-Russian, protesting against the war in South Ossetia-Abkhazia in 2008 resulted in the de facto independence of these two regions from the central government of Tbilisi. Read more