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Ukraine: Jamala will be a special guest at Selecţia Naţională 2022!
On Saturday February 5, the national final of Romania, Selecţia Naţională 2022, will take place in order to decide the country’s representative for Eurovision 2022. During the competition some artists competing in Eurovision this year, will perform their songs. These are:
- Albania – Ronela Hajati
- Bulgaria – Intelligent Music Project
- Czech Republic – We Are Domi
- Estonia – Stefan
- Moldova – Zdob și Zdub
- Montenegro – Vladana
- North macedonia – Andrea
However, there will be another special guest, according to the official Facebook page of the national final, and that will be Jamala, the winner of Eurovision Song Contest 2016.
The artist, a refugee from the conflict in her homeland, will perform her winning song “1944“, which managed to bring the contest to Kiev in 2017, live on TVR this Saturday.
Romania: Online voting for Selecţia Naţională 2022 semifinal has started!
Voting for the first part of the semifinals of the Romanian selection for the Eurovision 2022 Song Contest has just begun.
From 19:00 (CET) the public can vote for their favorite songs competing in the Selecţia Naţională 2022. You can vote for 24 hours HERE.
Once the vote is closed, the five entries that received the most votes will make a place in Saturday’s televised semifinal.
A jury has already voted on the 45 songs currently competing in the Selecţia Naţională 2022. The 15 entrants who received the highest critical votes but were not in the top 5 will also compete in the semifinals.
We remind you that the songs claiming 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”
- 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: The hosts for the semi-final of Selecția Națională 2022 revealed!
A few hours ago, Romania’s public broadcaster, TVR, announced the hosts for the semi-final of the country’s national final, Selecția Națională 2022!
The hosts of Selectia Nationala 2022 will be the main characters of the TV show “Cu buru-n zori” of TVR 1, Anca Mazilu and Bogdan Stănescu. The hosts team will be completed by Ilinca Băcilă, Romania’s representative in 2017, who will be with the artists in the green room.
The 45 artists competing in Romania’s national final are:
- Aldo Blaga – “Embers”
- Alex Parker & Bastien – “Best of me”
- Alexa – “Hoodies and cold nights”
- Alina Amon – “Without you”
- Ana Lazăr – “Youngster”
- Andra Oproiu – “Younique”
- Andrea Stocchino – “Avere paura”
- Andrei Petruş – “Take me”
- ARIS – “Do Svidaniya” (Goodbye)
- Ayona – “Let me come to you”
- Bogdan Dumitraş – “Sign”
- Carmen Trandafir – “Măşti”
- Cezar Ouatu – “For everyone”
- Ciro De Luca – “Imperdonabile”
- Claudia, Minodora, Diana Bucşa – “România mea”
- Dan Helciug – “241”
- Dora Gaitanovici – “Ana”
- E-an-na – “Malere”
- Eliza G – “The other half of me”
- Eugenia Nicolae feat Cazanoi Brothers – “Doina”
- Fabi – “That way”
- Forţele de muncă – “Hai afară, frate!”
- Gabriel Basco – “One night”
- Giulia Georgia – “Find your way”
- Ivel – “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”
- Roberta-Maria Popa – “Indigo”
- Romeo Zaharia – “Until the fight is over”
- Seeya – “Save me”
- Sophia – “Beautiful lies”
- Stelian – “Remember”
- VANU – “Never give up”
- Vizi Imre – “Sparrow”
- WRS – “Llámame”
We remind you that forr the first time, fans will be able to vote for their favorite song through the national final’s official Facebook page, Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10 of February, where they can vote for five songs to qualify for the second phase of the semi-final. The juries will vote for 15 songs to qualify and the semi-final will be completed in February 12, with the TV show, where the juries will will pick only 10 songs for the grand final.
Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun.com for all the news regarding the Romanian participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy.
Πηγή: TVR
Romania: Three shows for the auditions of the Selectia Nationala 2022 semi-finals!
On Saturday 5 February, the programmes dedicated to the semi-finals of the 2022 National Selection, “Drumul spre Torino” (Road to Turin), will begin.
With the first of the three parts of the show starting on February 5 and the third one concluding on February 7. The three shows will therefore take place on 5-7 February, on TVR 1 with exclusive pictures from the National Selection semi-finals.
On 9 and 10 February, fans will be able to vote for their favourite songs on the official Eurovision Romania Facebook page.
The broadcast for the conclusion of the semi-final will take place on Saturday 12 February, live on TVR.
The semi-final schedule is as follows:
- Saturday 5 February (at 23:00 local time)
- Sunday 6 February (at 22:30 local time)
- Monday 7 February (at 22:50 local time)
You can watch all three shows on TVR 1, TVR International and TVR Moldova (9-11 February, at 23:05). The videos of the 46 semi-final songs will also be broadcasted on the official website eurovision.tvr.ro, on TVR’s YouTube channel and on the Eurovision Romania Facebook page.
The presenter will be Ilinca Băcilă (Representative of Romania in 2017), where for the first time she will exclusively broadcast footage from the filming, the impressions of the semi-final judges and the emotions and joy of the competition for the biggest international music competition in the world.
This is the fifth year in a row that I have been part of Eurovision in one way or another. I represented Romania in the contest, I was on the national jury, the international jury, I presented Romania’s score in the international phase and this year I have the opportunity to be with those who are struggling to represent our country.
This time I will meet again with the Eurovision fans from the position of the presenter of the three shows in which you will have the opportunity to get to know the semi-finals of this year’s edition.
During these shows, viewers will get to know the 2022 National Selection semi-finals better and join the organisers in the feverish preparations for the show on 12 February.
The week dedicated to the semi-finals in Romania will continue with the public vote. For the first time, fans will be able to vote for their favourite songs on the official Facebook page of the national competition on Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10 February, where they can nominate five songs for the second stage of the semi-finals. The jury will qualify another 15 and the semi-final will conclude on 12 February with the TV show, in which the expert jury will select only ten songs for the grand final.
The last act of the selection will take place on 5 March, when we will find out the name of Romania’s representative in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Source: TVR
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Moldova: The representative for Eurovision 2022 to be selected tomorrow!
A few minutes ago Moldova’s broadcaster, TRM, announced that they will select Moldova’s song for Eurovision 2022 after tomorrow’s round of live auditions!
According to the press release, “the Organising Committee notes the impossibility of organising and broadcasting the final stages of the TV broadcast due to the epidemiological situation in the country and the significant increase, lately, in the number of COVID-19 cases”.
A total of twenty-eight artists with twenty-nine songs will compete to represent Moldova in Turin.
The artists and songs competing are the following:
- Annet Smirnova – Toxic Eyes
- Denis Midone – Run Away
- Dianna Rotaru – My Time Is Now
- Katy Rain – Lele
- Naminal – Stop Tonight
- Ricky Ardezianu – Cherche la femme
- Sasha Bognibov – (I Just Had) Sex with Your Ex & My Friend Is Gay
- The Tramps – Sky Blues
- Trio Eva – Get a Kiss
- Y-Limit – Nothing More
- Tudor Bumbac – Iartă-mă că te iubesc
- Carolina Gorun & Danieli Shvets – Take Me Anywhere
- Emilia Vlas – Yama
- Lemonique – Boys
- Marcela Scripcaru – Starlight
- Maxim Zavidia – Ready
- Mihaela Andrei – Libre
- Zdob și Zdub & Fratii Advahov – Trenulețul
- Lanjeron – Magic Carpet
- Pelageya Stefoglo – I’m the Only One
- Ana Cernicova – Silent Battlefield
- Angel Kiss – The Sunshine in Me
- Diana Elmas – Spirit High
- Ferum – Love Is
- Sendrei – Beginners’ Luck
- Valeria Barbas – My Tree
- Viola Julea – Before (Twin Flame)
- Viorela Moraru – Tell Me That You Love Me
You can listen to all the entries on the TRM website here.
As a reminder, the live hearings will take place tomorrow, 29 January and will be broadcast live on Moldova 2 channel, but also online and will last 3 hours, from 15:00 to 18:00 CET.
Source: TRM
Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all news regarding the Moldavian participation in Eurovision 2022!
Romania: Interview with Aris | Female manipulation, the third attempt for Eurovision and the revamp to come! (Video)
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!
Romania: Listen To The Songs For Selecția Națională 2022!
TVR has released all of the forty-six songs that are competing in Selecţia Naţională 2022 to represent Romania at Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin. TVR has published a YouTube playlist of all of the studio versions of the songs.
You can listen all songs here:
The songs competing in the Romanian selection are:
- 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”
- Barbara – “Hypnotized”
- Bogdan Dumitraş – “Sign”
- Carmen Trandafir – “Măşti” (Masks)
- Cezar Ouatu – “For everyone”
- Ciro De Luca – “Imperdonabile” (Unforgiveable)
- 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)
We remind you that a committee of experts will select 15 songs, while the remaining 5 entries will be selected through the Romanian page for Eurovision on Facebook. The songs will be posted after a special recording in the studios of the Romanian public television in early February.
The second phase of the semifinal will take place on February 12, which will also be televised. There, the 20 songs that have been selected, will compete for the ten places of the final and the verdict will belong exclusively to the members of the committee.
In the Grand Final, to be held on March 5, 2022, the 10 best songs will reappear and the winner will be selected by a combination of jury and audience votes. As in previous years, the televoting score will have the same weight as the score given by each member of the jury.
Source: eurovoix
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Romania: Natalia Gordienko as a guest at the national final
A last minute news report. Yesterday, the grand winner of the Moldovan national final, Natalia Gordienko, will appear as a guest at the Romanian national final, which is being held tonight in Buzau.
The relations between Romania and Moldova are well known, since it would not be an exaggeration to say that they are the same nation. Each year the Moldovan representative appears in the Romanian national final or vice versa, depending on who will be ahead of time.
Not long ago we confirmed that Natalia Gordienko would indeed be in Buzau and interpret “Prison” for her Romanian fans.
Along with Natalia Gordienko will be Loreen, Ulrikke representing Norway in this year’s contest, as well as Cypriot representative Sandro, who will present a new version of Fuego and Replay, specially prepared for this!
You can watch the Romanian national final at 20.00 CET time. by clicking HERE.
Romania: Wiwibloggs explains why they changed their minds regarding Laura Bretan’s “Dear Father”
In Romania, things seem to calm down after the unexpected results and the “strange” way Wiwibloggs voted, totally opposed to what they had said earlier in their video, commenting on the entries of Selectia Nationala. Read more
