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Romania: Tonight the final of the Selecţia Naţională 2022!

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Three weeks after the semi-final of the Selecţia Naţională 2022, Romania chooses its representative at Eurovision 2022 tonight.

Ten artists are taking part in tonight’s final of the Romanian national selection, with the big winner representing Romania in the 66th Eurovision Song Contest.

The contestants

The ten artists participating in tonight’s final of the Selecţia Naţională 2022 are:

  1. Andrei Petruş – Take me
  2. Alex Parker & Erik Frank & Bastien – All This Love
  3. Gabriel Basco – One night
  4. VANU – Never give up
  5. Petra – Ireligios
  6. MOISE – Guilty
  7. Cream, Minodora, Diana – România mea
  8. Kyrie Mendél – Hurricane
  9. Dora Gaitanovici – Ana
  10. WRS – Llamame

The final result will be determined solely by the preference of a jury, with the voting of the television audience having a symbolic character.

The presenters of Selecţia Naţională 2022 will be Eda Marcus and Aurelian Temișan. The team of presenters will be completed by Ilinca Băcilă, representative of Romania at Eurovision 2017, who will be with the contestants in the Green Room.

The final of the Selecţia Naţională 2022 starts at 20:00 CET and will last for three hours. You can watch it on the TVR1 frequency by clicking HERE.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the developments regarding Romania’s participation in Eurovision 2022!

Romania: The finalists of the Selecţia Naţională 2022!

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The semifinal of Selecţia Naţională 2022 has just ended! We now know the ten finalists who will claim the Romanian representation in Turin, in the final of the Selecţia Naţională 2022, which will take place on March 5th.

The show

Hosts of Selecţia Naţională 2022 are Anca Mazilu and Bogdan Stănescu. The team of presenters is completed by Ilinca Băcilă, representative of Romania at Eurovision 2017, who was with the contestants in the Green Room.

The 20 artists who were selected to compete in today’s semifinal, performed live the entries and were judged exclusively by the five-member jury, which determined the results.

The order of appearance of the 20 contestants was as follows:

1. Alex Parker feat. Bastien– All This Love
2. Aldo Blaga – Embers
3. PETRA– Ireligios
4. Vizi– Sparrow
5. Vanu– Never give up
6. Mălina – Prisoner
7. WRS– Llamame
8. Andrei Petruș– Take me
9. MØISE– Guilty
10. Gabriel Basco– One night
11. Cream, Minodora, Diana – România mea
12. Oana Tăbultoc– Utopia
13. Kyrie Mendel– Hurricane
14. Dora Gaitanovici– Ana
15. Cezar Ouatu– For everyone
16. Andra Oproiu– Younique
17. E-an-na– Malere
18. Eugenia Nicolae feat. Cazanoi Brothers– Doina
19. Eliza G – The other half of me
20. ARIS– Do Svidaniya

Results

The members of the jury who determined 100% of the results of the semifinal were:

  • Alexandra Ungureanu
  • Ozana Barabancea
  • Randi
  • Cristian Faur
  • Adrian Romcescu

The ten artists who succeeded and qualified for the final on March 5 are:

  1. Alex Parker feat. Bastien
  2. PETRA
  3. Vanu
  4. WRS
  5. Andrei Petruș
  6. MØISE
  7. Gabriel Basco
  8. Cream, Minodora, Diana
  9. Kyrie Mendel
  10. Dora Gaitanovici

The final verdict for the representative of Romania in Eurovision 2022 will be received by the audience and a jury. Romania will participate in the second semifinal, appearing in the second half of the semifinal.

Stay tuned at Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the Romanian entry in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest!

Romania: Selecţia Naţională 2022 semifinal tonight!

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Romania’s selection process for Eurovision 2022 is continuing. A few days after it was decided which artists will be participating in the semifinal of Selecţia Naţională 2022, it is time for the show.

Twenty artists are competing to qualify for the grand final on March 5th, in which Romania’s representative in the 66th Eurovision Song Contest will be selected.

Ten of today’s participants will compete in the final of Selecţia Naţională 2022, with the selection of the ten finalists being made solely by the preference of the jury.

The contestants

The twenty artists who will be participating tonight in the semifinal of Selecţia Naţională 2022 are the following:

  1. Alex Parker & Erik Frank & Bastien – All This Love
  2. Aldo Blaga – Embers
  3. Andra Oproiu – Younique
  4. Andrei Petruş – Take me
  5. ARIS – Do Svidaniya
  6. Cezar Ouatu – For everyone
  7. Claudia, Minodora, Diana – România mea
  8. Dora Gaitanovici – Ana
  9. Eliza G – The other half of me
  10. E-an-na – Malere
  11. Eugenia Nicolae – Doina
  12. Gabriel Basco – One night
  13. Kyrie Mendél – Hurricane
  14. Mălina – Prisoner
  15. MOISE – Guilty
  16. Oana Tabultoc – Utopia
  17. Petra – Ireligios
  18. VANU – Never give up
  19. Vizi Imre – Sparrow
  20. WRS – Llamame

In the final, which will take place on March 5th, the winner and Romania’s representative in Turin will be determined by a combination of public and jury voting.

The presenters of Selecţia Naţională 2022 will be Anca Mazilu and Bogdan Stănescu. The team of presenters will be completed by Ilinca Băcilă, representative of Romania in Eurovision 2017, who will be with the contestants in the Green Room.

The semifinal of Selecţia Naţională 2022 starts at 20:00 CET and will last four hours. You can watch it on the TVR1 frequency by clicking HERE.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all news regarding Romania’s participation in Eurovision 2022!

Romania: The 20 finalists advancing to the semifinal of Selecția Națională 2022!

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The online voting for the first part of the Selecția Națională 2022 semifinal has officially been complete.

The public had the right to choose their favorite entry to qualify for the semifinal. Only 5 participants were selected from the online voting, while the other 15 were selected by a jury consisting of: Alexandra Ungureanu, Ozana Barabancea, Randi, Cristian Faur and Adrian Romcescu.

The finalists

The 20 finalists are the following:

  • Alex Parker & Erik Frank & Bastien – All This Love
  • Aldo Blaga – Embers
  • Andra Oproiu – Younique
  • Andrei Petruş – Take me
  • ARIS – Do Svidaniya
  • Cezar Ouatu – For everyone
  • Claudia, Minodora, Diana – România mea
  • Dora Gaitanovici – Ana
  • Eliza G – The other half of me
  • E-an-na – Malere
  • Eugenia Nicolae – Doina
  • Gabriel Basco – One night
  • Kyrie Mendél – Hurricane
  • Mălina – Prisoner
  • MOISE – Guilty
  • Oana Tabultoc – Utopia
  • Petra – Ireligios
  • VANU – Never give up
  • Vizi Imre – Sparrow
  • WRS – Llamame

Out of the above, the 5 ones chosen by the televote are the following:

  • Vizi Imre – Sparrow
  • Oana Tabultoc – Utopia
  • Mălina – Prisoner
  • E-an-na – Malere
  • Andra Oproiu – Younique

The second part of the semifinal will be held on Saturday, February 12th and will be televised. The jury will select ten songs to advance to the final.

In the final, which will take place on March 5th, the winner and Romania’s representative in Turin will be determined by a combination of public and jury voting.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all news regarding Romania’s participation in Eurovision 2022!

Romania: The jury has concluded for the first part of the Selecţia Naţională 2022 semi-final!

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Romanian broadcaster TVR has announced that the jury’s vote which will determine the songs from the first part of the Selecţia Naţională 2022 semifinal that will be passing to the next stage has been completed.

The jury has been tasked to rate all 45 candidates competing for a place in Saturday’s second part of the semifinal. 15 of them will win the ticket for the second part of the semifinal, provided that the public did not also choose them.

Specifically, the public voting for the first part of the semifinal will start tomorrow afternoon at 19:00 CET, with the public choosing 5 songs for the second part of the semi on Saturday. The 15 songs that emerged after the jury vote will be the 15 songs that scored the highest in the juries and that, at the same time, did not make it into the audience’s top 5.

We remind you that the songs bidding to represent Romania are the following:

  • Alex Parker & Erik Frank & Bastien – “Best of me”
  • Aldo Blaga – “Embers”
  • Alexa – “Hoodies and cold nights”
  • Alina Amon – “Without you”
  • Ana Lazăr – “Youngster”
  • Andra Oproiu – “Younique”
  • Andrea Stocchino – “Avere paura” (To be afraid)
  • Andrei Petruş – “Take me”
  • ARIS – “Do Svidaniya” (Goodbye)
  • Ayona Iordănescu – “Let me come to you”
  • Bogdan Dumitraş – “Sign”
  • Carmen Trandafir – “Măşti” (Masks)
  • Cezar Ouatu – “For everyone”
  • Ciro De Luca – “Imperdonabile” (Unforgivable)
  • Claudia, Minodora, Diana – “România mea” (My Romania)
  • Dan Helciug – “241”
  • Dora Gaitanovici – “Ana”
  • E-an-na – “Malere”
  • Eliza G – “The other half of me”
  • Eugenia Nicolae – “Doina”
  • Fabian Ferrara – “That way”
  • Forţele de muncă – “Hai afară, frate!” (Come out brother!)
  • Gabriel Basco – “One night”
  • Giulia-Georgia Beiliciu – “Find your way”
  • Ivelin Trakiyski – “Neverending”
  • Jessie – “Regret”
  • Kyrie Mendél – “Hurricane”
  • Letiţia Moisescu – “Mirunica”
  • Leyah – “I’ll be fine”
  • Mălina – “Prisoner”
  • Miryam – “Top of the rainbow”
  • MOISE – “Guilty”
  • Oana Tabultoc – “Utopia”
  • Olivia Miheţ – “Fragile”
  • Othello – “You’re worthy”
  • Outflow – “Running in circles”
  • Petra – “Ireligios” (Irreligious)
  • Popa Roberta-Maria – “Indigo”
  • Romeo Zaharia – “Until the fight is over”
  • Silvia Costache – “Save me”
  • Sophia – “Beautiful lies”
  • Stelian – “Remember”
  • VANU – “Never give up”
  • Vizi Imre – “Sparrow”
  • WRS – “Llámame” (Call me)

The second part of the semifinal will be held this Saturday, February 12 and will be televised. The jury will select ten songs to advance to the final.

In the final, which will take place on March 5th, the winner and Romania’s representative in Turin will be determined by a combination of public and jury voting.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all news regarding Romania’s participation in Eurovision 2022!

Romania: Interview with Eliza G| From Italy ends up representing Romania with a song about the value of love! (Video)

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After the announcement of her participation in this year’s Romanian national final, Selecția Națională 2022, Eliza G talks exclusively to EurovisionFun reporter, Apostolis Matamis.

Eliza is one of the artists that will compete in the hopes of winning a ticket for the final of the Romanian national selection process for Eurovision 2022 and is bidding to represent her country with the song “The Other Half of Me”.

Even though she is a permanent resident of Italy, she will attempt to represent Romania in Turin instead, which is her home country.

I am connected with Romania. The first year was in 2019, when I got invited at a Romanian festival. I went without any great expectations, but I won the first prize! I am really proud of that, it was one of the most amazing moments of my life. And now I said “Why not?”. I have a strong bond with Romania, I have lots of friends there. When there was an open call for foreign artists, I said, “I’ll go” and here I am, I am at the semi-final. After all, these two countries are deeply connected with each other. More than one million Romanians live in Italy and vice versa. They’re sister countries! 

Last week, she recorded her performance at the studios of TVR and she feels absolutely satisfied about the final outcome of her song, “The Other Half of Me”.

The song is partly in Italian and partly in English. It is a love song, but it is not exclusively related to some love affair but also in family and friendly relations. Generally speaking, it talks about our relationship with any person we might care for or feel close to. People, in their lives, they fight, they make mistakes and choose the wrong path sometimes. And they end up being scared that they might lose someone really close to them, when it’s actually too late already and they’re already gone. Then you realise what they were really worth. And in my song, I talk about that kind of situation, when you’ve lost a person and you are in the place where you used to live, all alone and then you realise how much you miss them, feeling it so intensely, as they were your other half. With my song, I want to emphasise on the hope that the mistakes we make, can show how that first stage of a forthcoming loss can feel like. 

The initial version of the song, that was written entirely in Italian by two really renowned Italian composers, was kept by Eliza in her vault. Later on, a composer from the United Kingdom assisted in writing the english version of “The Other Half of Me” and then it was decided that a mixed version should be formed, containing both languages, which was not initially targeting the Eurovision Song Contest. The decision to submit the song to the national selection process of Romania, came a while later.

Romania is a country with really broad horizons and is welcoming artists from all over the world, so I thought it is a great opportunity. I am so proud of this. And maybe, one of my next steps in terms of music, would be a future participation at the festival of Sanremo!

Apart from Romania, in 2021 she took part in a popular Albanian festival, where she says she’s gained a lot of experience.

She mentions that she has listened to all the songs of her contestants.

I have listened to all the songs, but I would prefer not to compare any, because it would be so unfair. We are all here for the same reason. What I would like to point out is that there are lots of nice songs, exceptional artists and I am really curious to see how they will sound like when performed live, because that is the moment when you actually understand what kind of feelings they can pull out of you.

In case she wins, Eliza will participate at the Eurovision Song Contest which will be held at the country where she currently lives:

I hope the timing is right. It would be really interesting. I have a lot of friends here. As an Italian woman, it would be really interesting if I had the chance to present a song partly in Italian, in my own country, representing Romania. 

Her favourite Italian entry is the one of Diodato (2020) while from the entire contest she loves the song of Salvador Sobral (Portugal 2017).

A few moments before the end of the interview, Eliza sang for us a small part of her song acapella.

You can watch the entire exclusive interview with Eliza at the video below:

You can listen to “The Other Half of Me“, Eliza’s song for Selecția Națională 2022, at the video below!

Romania: Interview with Aris | Female manipulation, the third attempt for Eurovision and the revamp to come! (Video)

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After the announcement of her participation in this year’s Romanian national final, Selecția Națională 2022, Aris talks exclusively to EurovisionFun and Apostolos Bogiannos and Giorgos Zefteridis.

Aris is one of the artists who will compete for a place in the final of the Romanian national selection for Eurovision 2022, and will try to represent her country with the song “Do svidaniya“.

Last Friday we had the live auditions and I can’t wait for the release of the video and people’s reactions. Many people thought the song was Russian however 90% of the lyrics are in English and it’s about a manipulated woman who at one point stands in front of her abuser and says “Do svidaniya” (goodbye). It is about all women who are afraid to make this change in their lives and stay trapped in such a relationship.

The Russian title in “Do svidaniya” is used metaphorically to refer to a cold and toxic relationship between a couple. Thinking about Eurovision was something that occured after the song had been written:

Although I am a composer, I didn’t write the song. I got in touch with the creators last September and when we wrote it we hadn’t originally discussed the Eurovison scenario. When the applications for the national final opened they asked me if I would like to take part with this song and at that moment I was in the middle of a trip. So somehow I managed to record and send them the vocal part exactly one day before the deadline. I didn’t tell anyone about it until the shortlist was published and a friend asked me if I had submitted a song for the competition.

Regarding her stage presentation in the national final, Aris states that:

It will be a surprise. I have some ideas but I can’t say anything yet. In the first phase of the auditions it will just be me with a microphone. In the semi-final I’ll come with a TV addition if we’re allowed. If I qualify for the final you will see a full show.

She says that she hasn’t listened to any of the rest songs as she prefers to focus on her own performance without being unintentionally influenced by the other competing songs.

Her favourite Romanian entry is that of Luminița Anghel & Sistem (2005) while from the competition in general she singles out many entries including those of Maneskin (Italy 2021), Mahmood (Italy 2019), maNga (Turkey 2010), Elnur & Samir (Azerbaijan 2008) and Chingiz (Azerbaijan 2019).

Since I was a child I was watching the Eurovision phenomenon and it was one of my dreams to be on the stage of this contest and make Romania proud. I don’t know if it will happen this year or any of the next years but I know it will happen at some point. I had tried two other times before. In 2012 as a member of the band T&L after our fourth place in X-Factor Romania , with the song “Twilight” and in 2015 as Lara Lee with the song “Superman“.

Just before the end of the interview, Aris shared with us an acapella part of her entry and revealed that there will be a revamp of her entry that will be released within February.

Watch the full exclusive interview with Aris in the video below:

Listen to “Do Svidaniya“, Aris‘ participation in Selecția Națională 2022!

Moldova: Listen to the songs of Selectia Nationala!

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Only a few hours after the deadline, the Moldovian broadcasting channel published all the 30 songs that have been submitted for Eurovision 2022.

The artists who are competing in the year’s Selectia Nationala are:

  • Annet Smirnova
  • Denis Midone
  • Dianna Rotaru
  • Katy Ryan
  • Misscatylove
  • Naminal
  • Ricky Ardezianu
  • Sasha Bognibov
  • The Tramps
  • Trio Eva
  • Y-Limit
  • Bumbac Tudor
  • Carolina Gorun & Danieli Shvets
  • Emilia Vlas
  • Lemonique
  • Marcela Scripcaru
  • Maxim Zavidia
  • Mihaela Andrei
  • Sasha Bognibo
  • Zdob Si Zbum & Fratii Advahov
  • Lanjeron
  • Pelageya Stefolo 
  • Ana Cercinova
  • Angel Kiss
  • Diana Elmas
  • Ferum
  • Sendrei
  • Valeria Barbas
  • Viola Julea
  • Viorela Moraru

You can listen to the full songs here.

Selectia Nationala

The Moldovian national final will be divided in two parts. At first, all the songs will be judged by the channel between 25-28 of January and then on the 29th there will be a live audition.

Later on, the channel will decide if a national final is going to be held in the 5th of March 2022.

In 2021 Natalia Gordienko represented the country with the song Sugar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I_1GTehgkI&feature=emb_title

Which is your favorite from the Selectia Nationala 2022? Tell us in the comments below.