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Eurovision 2022: North Macedonia’s Second Rehearsal!

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It was Andrea’s turn, representing North Macedonia with the ‘Circles‘, to hold her second rehearsal.

Who is Andrea?

Andrea Koevska was born on February 14, 2000 in Skopje. At the age of five she moved with her family to Haarlem, New York, where they lived for a year. It was in Haarlem that Andrea was first exposed to a variety of music. Her passion for music was encouraged by her grandfather, who passed away when he was nine years old.

Andrea’s music career began in 2020, after her adaptations on social media were spotted by producer Aleksandar Masevski, who began working with her on music. Her first single “I Know” was released in October 2020. This was followed by several other singles, including “Talk to Me”. Andrea has received airplay in countries across Europe and in parts of Africa and Asia.

In February 2022, Andrea won the national final of Northern Macedonia, Za Evrosong 2022

The rehearsal

Andrea is alone on stage, dressed in black, supported only by pulsating graphics and dramatic lighting. It also uses the two elevator bridges over the water element as graphic displays. She has small vocal problems but her appearance does not achieve much in a difficult semifinal like this. Overall it’s okay.

Watch the exclusive clip of the second rehearsal through the cameras:

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Eurovision 2022: North Macedonia’s First Rehearsal!

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The second country to have a go on their first rehearsal for Eurovision Song Contest 2022 is North Macedonia and Andrea with the song “Circles”!

Who is Andrea?

Andrea is relatively new to the world of pop, but her journey has gotten off to a flying start. It was during her younger years living in New York that she developed a keen interest in the gospel, soul and R&B music that surrounded her.

When her family moved back to North Macedonia, she enrolled in Skopje’s Faculty of Music Arts, the country’s leading music school, where she enhanced her burgeoning songwriting skills by learning to play guitar and piano.

The rehearsal

This is a really classy, stripped-back performance from Andrea – she’s alone on stage, dressed all in black, supported by nothing more than pulsing graphics and dramatic lighting.

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EBU / NATHAN REINDS

She also uses the lift bridges over the water feature as graphic screens, which is only the second time we’ve seen them used this way so far – Moldova was the first. It’s really impactful, and the staging definitely gives Andrea’s powerful voice space to shine.

Below you can watch a small clip from North Macedonia’s first rehearsal from Tik Tok:

@eurovision Dressed all in black, supported by nothing more than pulsing graphics and dramatic lighting, @Andreamusic20’s first rehearsal on stage was very impressive! 👏🇲🇰 #Eurovision #Eurovision2022 #EurovisionTikTok ♬ original sound – Eurovision

The second rehearsal of North MAcedonia will take place on Friday 6th May and we will have a better idea of ​​what we will see from Andrea on the stage.

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INFE POLL 2022: The results from North Macedonia!

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For the sixth consecutive year the second Network of Eurovision Song Contest fans ,the INFE Network, in cooperation with ESCToday, carries out the INFE Poll.

The members of the Network in the 22 local fan clubs, have already voted their favorite songs of Eurovision 2022 and with the help of ESCToday, announce their results.

Today, we have the results from INFE North Macedonia:

  • 1 point to Croatia
  • 2 points to Malta
  • 3 points to Portugal
  • 4 points to Ukraine
  • 5 points to Estonia
  • 6 points to Greece
  • 7 points in Sweden
  • 8 points in Italy
  • 10 points in Serbia
  • 12 points go to… the United Kingdom!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udsMTb2NIak&feature=emb_title

The overall results after 2 fan clubs are as follows:

  1. Italy – 18 points
  2. Sweden – 15 points
  3. United Kingdom – 12 points
  4. Austria – 12 points
  5. Greece – 11 points
  6. Serbia – 10 points
  7. Albania – 7 points
  8. Netherlands – 6 points
  9. Estonia – 5 points
  10. Ukraine – 4 points
  11. Finland – 4 points
  12. Portugal – 3 points
  13. Spain – 3 points
  14. Malta – 2 points
  15. Germany – 2 points
  16. Croatia – 1 points
  17. France – 1 points

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the results of the INFE Poll 2022!

North Macedonia: Preparations for Eurovision 2022 started!

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Today the public broadcaster MRT announced the team that works on Andrea’s performance for Eurovision Song Contest 2022.

The Creative Director for North Macedonia’s performance in Eurovision 2022 will be Biljana Pasharikovska.

Specifically Andrea said:

This is a very personal matter and we decided that those who know me better should better be part of it. Biljana is a person that not only makes me feel the stage like home, but also supports me and gives me stability. I will not reveal many things about my staging, rather than it is based on my original expression and the movements support it.

She also announced that Ana Petanovska and Renata Kralevska will be her backing vocals in Turin. The two artists are experienced solo singers that have performed in many festivals and concerts in North Macedonia.

The clothes that Andrea will wear in Tyrin will be designed by  Caci Pakovska. Caci is the same designer that designed Andrea’s clothes for the music video

She understands me perfectly and she knows exactly what I want without me saying a single word. She surely is experienced, I believe Caci is the best choice for this performance in front of the whole Europe and the world in general.

As of today, Andrea’s song “Circles” is available in Spotify.

North Macedonia will compete in the second half of the second semi-final in May 12.

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

Source: Eurovoix

North Macedonia: Andrea is representing the country in Eurovision 2022!

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The grand final of Za Evrosong, the national final of North Macedonia, has just been completed, with the country choosing Andrea as the festival’s winner and therefore their representative for Eurovision 2022 in Turin. This is the first time the country organized a national final since 2015.

A total of six finalists, that were picked among 47 submitted songs, competed in the national final, claiming the ticket to Turin.

The six artists

The six candidates of the night were:

  1. Andrea – “Circles“
  2. Kaly – “Love and Light“
  3. Lara – “Flower of Sorrow“
  4. Ris Flower – “Flying to Berlin“
  5. Viktor Apostolovski – “Superman“
  6. Yon Idy – “Dreams“

The voting

The results will be decided by 50% international jury vote and 50% online vote. The online voting opened on January 28 and closed today, exclusively for citizens of North Macedonia.

The juries of Za Evrosong, that decide  50% of the voting , are :

  • Gordon Bonello (head of Maltese delegation)
  • Tali Eshkoli (head of Israeli delegation)
  • Natia Mshvenieradze (head of Georgian delegation)
  • Robin Bergsson (head of Icelandic delegation)
  • David Tserunyan (head of Armenian delegation)

The Results

The results of the vote of Za Evrosong 2022 were as follows:

Juries (50%)

Each jury voted from 1 to 6 giving 1 to his/her favourite song and 6 to the least favourite song.

  • Andrea – 10 (converts to  12 points)
  • Lara – 12 (converts to  10 points)
  • Viktor – 16 (converts to 8 points)
  • Yon Idy – 21 (converts to 7 points)
  • Kaly – 22 (converts to 6 points)
  • Ris Flower – 24 (converts to 5 points)

Public vote (50%)

  • Andrea – 4300 (converts to 8 points
  • Lara – 1186 (converts to 5 points)
  • Viktor – 12621 (cpnverts to 12 points)
  • Yon Idy – 3743 (converts to 7 points)
  • Kaly – 7539 (converts to 10 points)
  • Ris Flower – 1367 (converts to 6 points)

 

After the public and the international juries voted, the results of the national final are:

  • Andrea – 20
  • Viktor – 20
  • Kaly – 16
  • Lara – 15
  • Yon Idy – 14
  • Ris Flower – 11

The competition’s tie-breaker rule says that the vote of the jury is the one that counts and thus, the big winner of Za Evrosong 2022 was Andrea with the song “Circles”

You can listen to Andrea’s song here:

Do you agree with North Macedonia’s choice of representative for Turin? Tell us in the comments!

 

North Macedonia: Listen to the participating songs of Za Evrosong!

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As it was already known through the broadcaster’s Facebook account, the public television of North Macedonia, MRT, revealed earlier tonight the songs for Za Evrosong, the national final of North Macedonia for Eurovision 2022.

The six artists who will participate in the national final are (click on the song title to listen to the songs):

As a reminder, online voting is now open and will run for 7 days, until 4 February. The national final will take place on February 4 and the winner will be determined by the results of the online voting, as well as by the vote of the international jury of experts in a 50%-50% ratio.

Source: MRT

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North Macedonia: The artists that will compete on the national final!

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The public broadcaster, MRT, received proposals for the contest from December 10, 2021 until January 16, 2022. That means after years of absence North Macedonia returns with a national final to pick its representative for Turin instead of an internal selection. The channel received a total of 47 submissions for the contest, from which an expert commission chose the best six to take part in the National Final, this year named Za Evrosong 2022.

Of course here in Eurovisionfun, we had revealed all these information in our previous exclusive article!

The selected 6 original songs, which the commission considers meets the expected criteria for participating and presenting MRT and the country to the European public in the most spectacular contest are as follows:

 

1. Performer:  Kalina Velkovska  –  Kaly

Composition title:  “LOVE AND LIGHT”

Author of music: Davor Jordanovski

Author of the text: Vesna Malinova

Arrangement: Nikola Vaskov – Nino, Davor Jordanovski, Petar Luzic

 

2. Performer:  Yon Idy

Composition title:   ” DREAMS”

Music and lyrics: Yon Idy

Arrangement: Angel Ḱosev, Yon Idy

 

3. Contractor:  Lara Ivanova

Composition title:   “ FLOWER OF SORROW”

Music author: Robert Bilbilov

Author of the text: Robin Zimbakov

Arrangement: Robert Bilbilov and Darko Dimitrov

 

4. Contractor:  Viktor Apostolovski

Composition title:   “SUPERMAN”

Author of music: Vladimir Dojcinovski

Author of the text: Vladimir Dojcinovski and Viktor Apostolovski

Arrangement: Vladimir Dojcinovski

5. Contractor:  Andrea Koevska – Andrea

Composition title:   ” CIRCLES”

Author of music: Aleksandar Masevski

Author of the text: Aleksandar Masevski and Andrea Koevska

Arrangement: Aleksandar Masevski

6. Performer:  Boris Cvetanovski – Ris Flower

Composition title:   ” FLYING TO BERLIN”

Author of music: Boris Cvetanovski – Ris Flower

Author of the text: Boris Cvetanovski – Ris Flower

Arrangement: Mustafa Janbazlar

 

All songs will be released on January 28 during the TV show Стисни Плеј on 22:00, CET. There will be an online voting that will last for 7 days.

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

North Macedonia: Listen to “You”,Vasil’s song for Eurovision 2020

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Since January 15th, the public broadcaster of North Macedonia had informed us that Vasil Gargaliev will represent the country at the 65th Eurovision Contest!

This is the fifth consecutive year that Northern Macedonia chooses to participate by direct assignment. Vasil is familiar with the Contest since they were on Tamara Todevska’s vocal team last year.

Vasil’s song is titled “You” and is a creation by both Nevenska and Kalina Neshkoska and Alice Shrader.

https://youtu.be/xPZumQQExQc

Who is Vasil Garganliev

 

Vasil Garganliev began his musical journey at the age of 7, playing at one of the most popular children’s festivals in Northern Macedonia. Shortly thereafter, he moved with his family to the United States, where he continued his career as a soloist at the Chicago Children’s Choir.

He has given many recitals at music festivals around the world and has collaborated with some of the most renowned artists. The motto of Vasil’s life is simple: whenever words fail, sing.

Since returning to Northern Macedonia in 2018, Vasil has released 3 very successful singles: Gjerdan, Patuvam and Mojata Ulic. His first personal concert in his hometown in November 2019 was sold out.

North Macedonia: On March 8th,the song to be released

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OGAE of Northern Macedonia informs us that the song by Vasil Garganliev who will represent the country at Eurovision 2020 will be released on March 8th.

The song, titled “You”, will premiere with its video clip on March 8th. A day later the head of delegation of Northern Macedonia will present it at the meeting of the leaders to be held in Rotterdam.

The video clip will be aired on the afternoon news bulletin of public television and according to OGAE North Macedonia information is not a ballad. The same Swedish team that was responsible for last year’s participation in Tamara, who as you may remember was the winner of the jury rating, will take over the stage.

The song is signed by Nevenka Neshkoska, Kalina Neshkoska and Alice Shrader, both of whom are sisters, expressing extreme nationalism, something we’ve been informed about in our article. However, the performer himself seems to hold lower tones.

Source: OGAE North Macedonia

North Macedonia: Listen to its participation for Junior Eurovision 2019

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Last but not least, North Macedonia presents its entry for this year’s Junior Eurovision song contest. 14-year-old Mila Moskov with the song “Fire”  will represent the countr.

Both herself and the song were selected by direct assignment from the country’s public broadcaster. Mila has been involved with music since she was 6 years old. She has participated in various concerts, both solo and as a member of the Little Angels children’s choir. The song is signed by Lazar Cvetkoski and Magdalena ENA Cvetkoska.

listen to it below:

https://youtu.be/1nzx1qeI-5I