Junior Eurovision 2023: Opening ceremony today!

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The week of Junior Eurovision 2023 has arrived! In less than seven days we will know the winner of the 21st edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, held this year in Nice, France, with the Western European powerhouse hosting the contest for the second time in just three years.

The traditional opening ceremony to welcome all the delegations will take place today at the Hotel Negresco located on the much-publicised Promenade des Anglais at 17:00 CET. The event will be broadcast live on France TV and on the official YouTube channel of the contest.

The event will be hosted by Carla Lazzari, France’s representative at Junior Eurovision 2019 and presenter Manon Théodet.

Each of the sixteen delegations will be welcomed in Nice by journalist Laura Tenoudji and digital ambassador Ophénya. The ceremony will also include performances by each of France’s Junior Eurovision representatives since their return to the contest in 2018, with the singers performing parts of their songs.

During the opening ceremony , three places in the performance order will be determined. Following a draw, the countries that will open and close Sunday’s contest will be known, as well as the order of appearance for host France.

The remaining 13 places in the line-up will be known after the opening ceremony, with full details to be announced on the official website of the contest.

16 countries will compete in the 21st Junior Eurovision Song Contest, whose participants and their songs are:

🇦🇱 Albania Viola Gjyzeli – “Bota ime“
🇦🇲 Armenia Yan Girls – “Do It My Way”
🇲🇰 North Macedonia Tamara Grujeska – “Kaži mi, kaži mi koj“
🇫🇷 France Zoé Clauzure – “Coeur”
🇩🇪 Germany Fia – “Ohne Worte”
🇬🇪 Georgia Anastasia and Ranina – “Over the Sky”
🇪🇪 Estonia Arhanna – “Hoiame kokku”
🇬🇧 United Kingdom Stand Uniqu3 – “Back to Life”
🇮🇪 Ireland Jessica McKean – “Aisling”
🇪🇸 Spain Sandra Valero – “Loviu”
🇮🇹 Italy Melissa and Ranya – “Un mondo giusto”
🇲🇹 Malta Yulan – “Stronger”
🇳🇱 Netherlands Sep and Jasmijn – “Holding On to You”
🇵🇱 Poland Maja Krzyżewska – “I Just Need a Friend”
🇵🇹 Portugal Júlia Machado – “Where I Belong”
🇺🇦 Ukraine Anastasia Dymyd – “Kvitka”

Junior Eurovision 2023 will take place at Palais Nikaia, in the city of Nice, France, next Sunday 26 November. The contest will be hosted by France for the second time after Lissandro won the 2022 contest in Armenia with his song “Oh maman!”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOf_y8Tz6uw

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Germany: Artists who submitted for “Das Deutsche Finale 2024”!

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Seven more artists who are likely to represent Germany in the upcoming Eurovision contest in Malmö were made public earlier today on the ESC Kompakt website.

John Riot

John Riot is a German model and singer. His participation in The Voice seven years ago helped make him well-known to the general public and he currently has over 100,000 Instagram followers. The singer has attempted to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest before. In 2020, he attempted to represent San Marino but did not manage to win the ticket to Rotterdam. His song for this year’s “Deutsche Finale,” “Intoxicated”, addresses the bullying and exclusion that members of the LGBTQ+ community encounter, a topic he claims he has personally experienced.

 

Gute Katze Böse Katze

Among the artists that might be included in the final list of contenders for the “Deutsche Finale 2024” is the band Gute Katze Böse Katze, which characterizes its sound as “Hamburg cuddly punk”. The group submitted the song “Rendezvous” with Waldinsel Records. The band feels that winning the national selection will be hard, because the song is unconventional and is sung in German.

Gloria Massamba

Gloria Massamba rose to fame in Germany following her victory in the “Erftkreis Lied Contest,” a regional competition in which ten municipalities compete with one song each. This year, she submitted the pop-dance song “Start Again”, along with producer Dieter Kirchenbauer.

Eva Lima

Eva Lima is known in Germany’s electro-pop scene. This year, she is claiming the country’s representation with the song “Scared Of The Dark”, which stays true to the singer’s well-known musical identity. The hip-hop tempo and the song’s dark atmosphere give this particular participation an extra layer of interest.

@evalimamusic Mein Song für Malmö 🇸🇪🇩🇪#esc2024 #eurovisionsongcontest #germanyeurovision #unsersongfürmalmö #twelvepoints #esc ♬ original sound – Eva Lima

Fabio

Fabio, who is of Italian descent, is mostly known in Germany from TikTok, where he has a particularly high level of popularity. He recently released the song “Shake it”, with which she aspires to participate in the “Deutsche Finale 2024”.

Dario Black

Dario Black is another artist who made his interest in representing Germany known via TikTok. You can listen to his track, “Let The Music” below:

@iamdarioblack “Let The Music” for Eurovision Germany 2024. A fusion of latin pop & electronic music is gonna be 🔥 on stage. #eurovisiongermany2024 @ESC Deutschland #eurovision ♬ original sound – Dario Black

Ksenia Eirich

Ksenia Eirich’s song is entitled “Wherever I Go”. It is a combination of various musical styles, including rock, rap, and dark-pop. Below you can watch the music video of her entry, which she has directed herself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0fH0Dwpe_c

The German broadcaster NDR reports that 693 proposals in total were submitted. In particular, 475 solo singers, 71 duets and 127 bands aspire to participate on the German national selection. Greek-German singer Melissa Mantzoukis is among the artists that submitted an entry. Information on the upcoming stages of the evaluation as well as the final list of songs that will compete on February 18 will be released soon.

Germany was represented this year by Lord of the Lost and the song “Blood and Glitter”. The band, which is well-known in Germany, came in last place overall, with a total of 18 points. Will Germany be able to recover from its string of poor results and move to the left side of the leaderboard?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyGR4YWlPEs&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Feurovisionfun.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title

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Source: ESC Kompakt 

Germany: 693 songs submitted for “Das Deutsche Finale 2024”

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On Sunday, October 15, the entry period for “Deutsche Finale 2024”, the national competition through which the German representative for the upcoming Eurovision contest will be chosen, came to a close.

The German broadcaster NDR reports that 693 proposals in total were submitted. In particular, 475 solo singers, 71 duets and 127 bands aspire to participate on the German national selection. Information on the upcoming stages of the evaluation as well as the final list of songs that will compete on February 18 will be released soon.

This year, interested artists also had the option of submitting proposals by sharing their song on TikTok with the hashtag #UnserLiedFürLiverpool. Over 900 videos were published, several of which were not considered serious proposals.

Greek-German singer Melissa Mantzoukis is one of the artists who submitted for the German national final. Melissa gained popularity in Germany, through her participation in Idol 2022 . This year, she attempted to represent Greece in the competition with the song “Liar,” but she ultimately did not manage to do so even though the 70-member audience committee gave her a solid first-place ranking. The information we have indicates that the song she submitted to NDR has nothing to do with her participation this year.

Germany was represented this year by Lord of the Lost and the song “Blood and Glitter”. The band, which is well-known in Germany, came in last place overall, with a total of 18 points. Will Germany be able to recover from its string of poor results and move to the left side of the leaderboard?

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Source: Esc Kompakt

Germany: The Eurovision 2000 winner submitted an entry for “Das Deutsche Finale 2024”!

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Jørgen Olsen, one of the Eurovision 2000 winners for Denmark, plans to compete in the competition once more this year, but this time as Germany’s representative.

The singer particularly submitted a song in collaboration with German vocalist Alexandra Hofmann. In fact, the latter stated that she had pushed Jørgen to make this decision.

The deadline for submission of applications for the “Das Deutsche Finale 2024”, the national final through which Germany’s entry for the upcoming competition will be selected, ended last week. The songs are currently in the evaluation stage.

Along with his brother Niels, Jørgen Olsen represented Denmark in the 2000 Eurovision, winning the first place with 195 points. Since then, he has attempted to return in the contest twice, in 2005 and 2007, without however achieving it. Would you like to see Jørgen Olsen return to Eurovision ?

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Germany: The participations highlights of Das deutsche Finale 2024 through TikTok!

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The exact role the public broadcaster NDR’s official TikTok account will play remains murky.

Although there was an official mention of the platform in the first official press briefing for the German final, it is still up to the participants to publicize their entries on TikTok with the hashtag #EurovisionGermany2024. Of course, this does not exclude the use of other social networks such as YouTube, where there is already enough material available. It is important to mention that the participants are officially committed only through eurovision.de. For this reason, there will probably be no voting through the popular platform this year.

Below you can watch some candidates who have posted material with the relevant hashtag #EurovisionGermany2024.

@fromfalltospring Holen wir mehr als 0 Punkte dieses JAHR? #foryoupage #eurovisiongermany2024 #fy #12points #fromfalltospring #viral ♬ Originalton – ꜰʀᴏᴍ ꜰᴀʟʟ ᴛᴏ ꜱᴘʀɪɴɢ

@spielhagen „Love On The Dancefloor (Oh Lala Love)“ – unser Song für den ESC#EurovisionGermany2024 Wir freuen uns megaaa, euch unser Bewerbungsvideo (natürlich mit der gestern verkündeten 6er-Besetzung) für den Deutschen Vorentscheid präsentieren zu dürfen und sind super gespannt auf euer Feedback.#UnserWegZumESC Am Donnerstag geht unsere Bewerbung finally raus und ab da heißt es dann, ganz doll DÄUMCHEN DRÜCKEN. Songwriting: @Cora Liebig ♬ Love On The Dancefloor (Oh Lala Love) – SPIELHAGEN

@ojichristos Lasst uns endlich wieder das Ding nach Hause holen! Wollt ihr auch den Deutschen Part hören? ❤️ #EurovisionGermany2024 ♬ Originalton –   ♪

@david_vidano_official Hey Leute! Ich brauche eure Unterstützung! Ich habe am 15.09.23 meinen neuen Song “Mond” veröffentlicht, mit absoluter Ohrwurm-Gefahr ⚠️ Der Song ist jung und poppig, perfekt für den Eurovision Song Contest 2024. Deshalb brauche ich eure Hilfe, um Deutschland für euch zu vertreten! Wenn euch der Song gefällt, dann liked diesen Post und teilt ihn mit euren Freunden. Lasst uns gemeinsam den Hashtag #eurovisiongermany2024 verbreiten! Aber das ist noch nicht alles! Wenn ihr möchtet, erstellt gerne eure eigenen Videos mit meinem Song. Tanzt, singt oder performt dazu – alles ist erlaubt! Markiert mich in euren Videos und benutzt den Hashtag #eurovisiongermany2024, damit ich sie sehen kann. Lasst uns zusammen den ESC 2024 rocken und Deutschland stolz machen! Danke für eure Unterstützung! ❤️ . . #eurovisiongermany2024 #mond #berlin #malmö #spotifycharts #schlager #tanzen #esc #ohrwurm #viral #pfeifen ♬ Originalton – David Vidano

@bibiz.music #EurovisionGermany2024 ♬ Trapped – Mausio & Bibiane Z

Source: ESC Kompakt  

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Junior Eurovision 2023: Watch the video clip of the German entry, “Ohne Worte”!

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For the second edition in a row, Germany selected its Junior Eurovision entry via a national selection. Young artists with demo versions of their songs competed and Fia was crowned the winner with her song “Ohne Worte“.

Yesterday, along with the final version of “Ohne Worte”, the official video of the German entry was released on the official Youtube channel of Junior Eurovision.

You can watch the video clip of “Ohne Worte” by Fia, below:

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Germany: Lord Of The Lost will try to compete again in Eurovision!

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Lord Of The Lost represented Germany in Eurovision 2023 with their song “Blood And Glitter”. After winning the German national selection with a huge televoting margin, they brought heavy metal to Eurovision stage.

Actually, “Blood And Glitter” was not their first Eurovision attempt. Lord Of The Lost also applied for the German national selection in 2022, without making it to the final line-up. In fact, the song that they submitted, “One Last Song“, was recently released.

With this song we applied for the German Finals for the 2022 ESC in Turin. If you remember, in 2022 it was not part of the German ESC concept to have rock or metal be part of the competition, so we did not make it to the German Finals back then. Same thing happened with Pump It” by our colleagues of @electriccallboy. Besides a basic studio version of our song, we also produced a ruff acoustic demo, which you can actually hear on our ESC Edition of the ‘Blood & Glitter’ album.

Although finishing last with “Blood And Glitter”, Lord Of The Lost are not discouraged to try again and compete in the future, as they announced via an Instagram post of theirs. Nevertheless, bearing in mind the numerous Eurovision covers they were sharing on social media, Lord Of The Lost must love the contest and the message of unity it represents.

What a ride, what a great time. Euro-fans: be sure we will try to compete again in the future! 

 

Unfortunately, Lord Of The Lost did not succeed in overturning the tables for Germany, a country that struggles a lot in its Eurovision course for the past ten editions. Indicatively, in the last ten editions, Germany has finished last four times and second-last three times.

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Junior Eurovision 2023: Listen to the final version of Germany’s entry!

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With less than two months until the 21st edition of Junior Eurovision Song Contest, NDR, the German National Broadcaster, has released the final version its Junior Eurovision entry.

Last month, Germany hosted a national final in order to select its Junior Eurovision act. Fia was crowned as the winner with a demo version of her song “Ohne Worte” (Without Words). After winning the national selection, she went into studio again and today we have the final version of her entry.

You can listen to the final version of the German entry below:

Who is Fia?

Fia was born in Shanghai and is 11 years old. Her family relocated to Germany after the birth of her sibling. The family now resides in Berlin along with their two rabbits. Fia appeared on this year’s season of The Voice Kids, wowing the audience with her use of sign language, as she was motivated to accomplish it for her younger sister.

Junior Eurovision 2023 will take place on November 26 in Nice, France, following Lissandro’s win last year in Yerevan.

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Germany: Extended deadline for submissions and the first artists

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The deadline for submitting applications for “Das Deutsche Finale 2024”, the national competition through which the country’s representative for the upcoming Eurovision contest will be chosen, has been extended, according to an official announcement from Germany’s public broadcaster NDR. Consequently, prospective artists now have until October 15 to submit their suggestions as opposed to the initial deadline of October 5.

The rest of the rules, which are covered in our pertinent article, remain unchanged.

Furthermore, the first potential artists have been revealed:

Melissa Mantzoukis

Greek-German singer Melissa Mantzoukis, gained popularity in Germany as a result of her participation in Idol 2022. She attempted to represent Greece in the contest this year with the song “Liar,” which she did not manage to do, despite receiving a strong first-place rating from the audience committee of 70 people. The song that she submitted to NDR, based on what we know, has nothing to do with her participation this year.

ALLY

Allison Bonnefoy, better known as Ally, has already tried her hand at the Eurovision stage, through her participation in the Austrian national final in 2015. Her most recent works are electronic in nature, such as “Humanity,” which is also one of her entries for “Das Deutsche Finale 2024”.

Apollson

Apollson is a rising star in the German music industry who has found considerable success on streaming services. In a video posted on TikTok a few days ago, he expressed interest in participating in this year’s German selection process by using the hashtag #EurovisionGermany2024.

Florian Suerie / ARTISTWITHOUTANAME

Florian Suerie recently announced his interest in entering the competition by sharing an acoustic version of his potential proposal on his personal Facebook page. The song has currently been recorded in both English and German, but it has not yet been released in its final form.


Spielhagen

The 14-member choir Spielhagen has taken the tagline “Club meets Choir” and specializes in performing disco music. The song “Love On The Dancefloor (Oh Lala Love)” was recorded by six of them and serves as their proposal for “Das Deutsche Finale 2024”.

 

 

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Germany was represented this year by Lord of the Lost and the song “Blood and Glitter”. The band, which is well-known in Germany, came in last place overall, with a total of 18 points. Will Germany be able to recover from its string of poor results and move to the left side of the leaderboard?

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Source: ESC kompakt, eurovoix 

Germany: Ralph Siegel wants to return to Eurovision!

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German songwriter Ralph Siegel, who has 25 appearances at Eurovision under his belt—including the 1982 contest’s winning entry, “Ein bisschen Frieden”—has announced his intention to compete again in 2024.

More specifically, he mentioned that he has composed a song for Aileen Sager, which has been submitted to the German broadcaster, in order to claim the representation of the country.

“My dream is to win for Germany again. I’m working hard on that, standing in the studio day and night.”

Ralph Siegel is making his first try at participating in the competition in five years. His last entry was “Spirit of the night”, with which Valentina Monetta and Jimmie Wilson represented San Marino at Eurovision 2017, finishing in last place in the semi-final.

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Source: eurovoix