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Georgia: On February 2 the Final of The Voice Georgia!

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Georgia’s national broadcaster GPB hosts The Voice Georgia for the first time, as the country’s national selection for Eurovision 2023.

The tv show, which started on December 8, is now in the Live Shows phase, with 24 artists continuing to compete to represent Georgia in Liverpool.

As announced by the GPB, the Semi-Final of The Voice Georgia will take place on January 26, while one week later, on Thursday, February 2, the Grand Final will take place, when the winner will be decided and get the right to fly the country’s flag in the United Kingdom.

Also, it is not yet known how the song will be chosen to be performed by the artist who will be crowned the winner of the music competition in May.

The jury, as we have already informed you, consists of:

  • Stephane Mgebrishvili (Eurovision 2009)
  • Dato Evgenidze
  • Sopo Toroshelidze (Eurovision 2011)
  • Dato Porchkhidze

Among the 24 artists who continue in the Live Shows is Iru Khechanov, a member of the children’s group Candy, where with their song Candy Music they managed to give the Caucasian nation the second prize in Junior Eurovision 2011.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cs5XeJJlsQ&feature=emb_title

In 2022 in Turin of Italy Georgia was represented by Circus Mircus group and the song Lock Me In but achieved nothing more than finishing 18th and last in the second semifinal with 22 points.

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

Stay tuned on Eurovision Fun for all the updates and news around the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest.

Source: The Voice Georgia

 

Georgia: The judges for The Voice Georgia revealed!

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The jurors to join the judging panel for The Voice Georgia have been announced, in order to find the next act that will represent Georgia at Liverpool in Eurovision Song Contest 2023!

The judging panel is  formed of:

  • Stephane Mgebrishvili
  • Dato Evgenidze
  • Dato Porchkhidze
  • Sopo Toroshelidze

GPB has announced  the judging line-up for The Voice Georgia. Former Eurovision representative Sopho Toroshelidze and composer Dato Evgenidze have been announced by the Georgian broadcaster today and Stephane Mgebrishvili was announced as First The Voice Georgia juror some days ago.

Stephane Mgebrishvili  has been involved in the music industry since the late 1990s and is best known as a member of Stephane and 3G, the group which won the Georgian selection for Eurovision 2009 but was disqualified from competing in Moscow for its politically influenced song “We Don’t Wanna Put In”.

Dato Evgenidze is a composer who writes music for film, TV and theatre, he has previously been a judge in the Georgian selection for Junior Eurovision Ranina.

Sopho Toroshelidze represented Georgia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 as part of Eldrine. She has gone on to be a judge on X Factor Georgia in 2014, and has been on the Georgian jury at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

The singer and composer Dato Porchkhidze was already a judge of The Voice in the first two editions. He is one of the most famous songwriters, he has created around 600 songs and soundtracks for movies and TV series and also he was a member of the “X-factor” jury in 2016.

For the  first time since 2020, Georgia decides to once again pick their representative through a TV show. The last Georgian representative to be chosen with this method was Tornike Kipiani from the Georgian Idol 2019, who represented the country in 2021, after the cancellation of the 2020 contest. This time, the selection will be held through The Voice of Georgia, which will return to the first channel of the Georgian television.

 

Circus Mircus represented Georgia this year with the song “Lock Me In” and ended up last (18th) in the second semi-final with 22 points.

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

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the Georgian participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, in the United Kingdom!

source: Τhe Voice Georgia