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Azerbaijan: Nurlana Jafarova will serve as the commentator for Eurovision 2024!

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A couple hours ago, it was revealed by Ictimai Television, the national television of Azerbaijan, that Nurlana Jafarova will serve as the Azeri commentator for Eurovision 2024.

Hence, Nurlana Jafarova will offer live commentary to the Azeri audience watching at home for all three live shows.

 

Jafarova has a great experience with radio programs and has also provided commentary for many international events throughout her career. Moreover, in 2018 she was selected as one of the five members of Azerbaijan’s national jury for Eurovision.

Fahree and Ilkin Dovlatov will represent Azerbaijan in Eurovision 2024 with their song “Özünlə Apar”. Azerbaijan is allocated to perform twelfth at the first semi-final on May 7.

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Azerbaijan: Aisel claims to represent the country in Malmö!

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In our previous article, we mentioned that Azerbaijan will choose its participation for the 68th Eurovision Song Contest with an internal selection, through the “Live Auditions” process.

As is known, the submission process turned out to be successful enough, as İTV announced that 214 entries were submitted in total with 16 artists qualifying for the final stage. According to the national broadcaster, the process is still in full swing, with the Live Auditions underway.

Among the final contestants, there is a old acquaintance of the contest which is Aisel, who represnted the country at Eurovision 2018 in Lisbon, with the song “X My Heart“.

Aisel who had failed to qualify for the Grand Final, finishing 11th at the First Semi-Final, stated that she was not satisfied with her participation back in 2018, returns to pay off the score.

The sixteen artists from the “Live Auditions“ are:

  • Emy Lia
  • Tofiq Hacıyev & Camal Qurbanov
  • Aisel
  • Rilaya
  • Mari
  • İlkin Dövlətov & Mila Miles & Etibar Əsədli
  • Sabina Beyli
  • Lexa
  • Edgar Ravinov
  • Əmrah Musayev
  • Alesker
  • Rahib Mirzəyev & Tofiq Yadigar
  • Səbinə Quluzadə
  • Qorqud
  • Fahree

Finally, among the jury members are Aysel Teymurzadə (Azerbaijan 2009) and Eldar Qasımov & Nigar Camal (Azerbaijan 2011).

Although, it has not been made completely clear the closed selection process that is being condected, it appears from the reel that the national broadcaster post in its social media. İTV aims to test the vocal and the performance skills of every candidate. The candidate who has the best song and can deliver both conditions, will be the one to represent the country to Malmö.

This year, Azerbaijan failed to qualify for the Grand Final for the second time in its short history in Eurovision Song Contest. The sibling duo TuralTuranX with their song “Tell Me More” managed to finish second to last in their Semi-Final.

https://youtu.be/8BNtaW1IEtA

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Azerbaijan: 214 songs submitted for Eurovision 2024!

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Earlier today, İTV, the public broadcaster of Azerbaijan, announced the closing of their submission window, as well as the number of proposals they received for Eurovision 2024.

İTV announced through their Eurovision-themed accounts that they received 214 proposals to represent Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. Out of the 214 songs, 88 of them are from local composers, while the remaining 126 are from foreign composers. As in previous year’s, the country will choose its representative once again through an internal selection process.

No further information has been released regarding the announcement of the artist or the release of the song.

TuralTuranX represented Azerbaijan at Eurovision 2023, with the song “Tell Me More”, finishing in 14th place in the semi-final, giving the country its second non-qualification:

https://youtu.be/8BNtaW1IEtA

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Azerbaijan: The search of the representative for Eurovision 2024 is on!

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iTV, the public broadcaster of Azerbaijan, has now confirmed their participation in Eurovision Song Contest 2024, while on the same time they commenced the search for their next representative for the coming contest.

Those interested will be able to send their proposals until the deadline on September 30, on the specified email adress, song@eurovision.az.

The conditions for taking part are:

  • The songs must be in MP3 format, 192 kbps
  • There must be a sort bio of the performer, a photo and info on the composers of the song
  • The song must not be longer than three (3) minutes
  • The songs must not be published before September 1, 2023
  • The public broadcaster of the country has the right to make changes to the submitted songs

The representatives of Azerbaijan in Eurovision 2023, were the twins TuralTuranX with their song “Tell Me More”, ending up in 14th place of the First Semi-Final, getting Azerbaijan’s worst result in the contest and also their second non-qualification:

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Azerbaijan: Mads Enggaard announced as Nadir’s staging director!

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As the representative of Azerbaijan in this year’s Eurovision, Nadir Rustamli, announced through his personal Twitter account, the Danish producer Mads Enggaard will once again be responsible for the country’s stage presentation in the Eurovision Song Contest.

The experienced director Mads Enggaard has been involved with the Eurovision Song Contest for the past 18 years. He staged the entries of Efendi at Eurovision 2021, Chingiz at Eurovision 2019, but also the entries of his home country, Denmark, in the years 2004, 2010, 2018 and 2019.

As Nadir revealed in his social media, he is currently in Denmark, where he is rehearsing together with Mads Enggaard. There he also met the creators of his song, the Dane Thomas Stengaard and the Swede Andreas Stone.

The country competes in the 4th place of the Second Semifinal with the song “Fade To Black”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGd1AFKR_-E

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