Jessika (feat. Jenifer Brening) will represent San Marino at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Who We Are after winning the 1in360 national selection competition held in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Jessika (Jessica Muscat) is from Malta and has appeared several times in the Malta Eurovision national selections. Jenifer is from Germany and also had a solo song in the San Marino selection.
You can see Jessika (feat. Jenifer Brening) perform their winning song below.
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The final three acts have been confirmed for the 2018 Eurovizija final in Lithuania.
Source: Eurovision.tv
Elina Nechayeva has won the Eesti Laul national selection with La forza and will represent Estonia at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest.
La forza is an athemic pop opera song and is composed by Timo Vendt, Mihkel Mattisen, Ksenia Kuchukova and Elina Nechayeva.
You can see Elina perform her winning song below.
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The Andra Chanson (second chance) round took place in Sweden for the 2018 Melodifestivalen and the final four acts took their place for the grand final in Stockholm for next Saturday 10 March.
Fours sets of duels decided who would get the winning tickets to the final –
WINNER: MARGARET
WINNER: RENAIDA
WINNER: FELIX SANDMAN
WINNER: MENDEZ
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Saara Aalto performed three songs in the 2018 Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (UMK) national selection and the song that came out on top with the juries and the public was Monsters!
The three songs in the selection were –
Monsters is composed by Saara Aalto, Joy Deb, Linnea Deb, Ki Fitzgerald. Joy and Linnea wrote the winning song for Sweden, Heroes, for Måns Zelmerlöw at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest.
The interval act was Melanie C from the Spice Girls and she performed her solo worldwide hit and UK number one from 2001 I Turn To You.
Saara has participated twice before in the Finnish national selections and in 2016 she went all the way to the final of the UK X Factor.
You can see Saara’s performance of Monsters below and also the official video clip.
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Danielah Stoyanova is a young and exciting talent from Bulgaria to watch out for in the future. She has just made a short cover version of the Ed Sheeran worldwide hit Perfect in the French language. Her vocals are clear, sweet and charming in this version.
Danielah took part in the Bulgaria Junior Eurovision national selection in 2015. She also covered a French language song in the audition process – Dernière Danse by Indila.
Check out Danielah’s cover of Perfect in French below and also her audition when she was 14 years old for the Bulgarian JESC national selection.
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http://junioreurovision.bg/video/videos/daniela-stojanova-14-godini-gr-burgas.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9m9XUzSegI&feature=youtu.be
The Quintessence are a unique group ensemble from Georgia who specialise in vocal jazz music. They have had success at many festivals around the world in places such as Germany, Austria, USA, Finland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia and more.
The group consists of Natia Svanadze, Salome Dolidze, Elene Dolidze, Saba Chachanidze, Giorgi Toradze and Lasha Murvanidze. Buka Kartozia is the man behind the idea of forming the group who perform fascinating adaptations of different style of popular music. The vocal harmonies blend perfectly in tune to classic songs and they give a lot of emotion.
You can hear their latest work with a cover of the Manhattan Transfer hit Chanson D’Amour below and you can see a performance of the group in New York, USA.
Maybe we will see The Quintessence take to the Eurovision stage in the future.
You can read more about The Quintessence at their official website http://quintessence-jazz.com/about-2/
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Eleni Foureira has revealed her song that will represent Cyprus at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. The song is entitled Fuego. It is a stylish and upbeat dance number with a strong production.
Fuego is composed by Alex Papaconstantinou, Geraldo Sandell, Anderz Wrethov, Viktor Svensson and Didrick.
Eleni was chosen internally by the broadcaster CyBC.
You can see the official video for Fuego below.
Source: Eurovision.tv; ESC Covers
Waylon has chosen Outlaw In ‘Em to be his song that will represent The Netherlands at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Portugal in May.
Over the last few days Waylon has revealed five songs and advised that one of them would be the Eurovision entry. The songs will be on his forthcoming album. All the tracks were recorded in Nashville, USA and the country influence can be heard throughout.
Waylon was one half of the Common Linnets who finished in second place for The Netherlands at the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest in Denmark with Calm After The Storm.
You can see Waylon perform his 2018 Eurovision entry below.
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4 Magic recently won the X Factor in Bulgaria. Now the all girl band have released their debut single and video clip. The song is entitled Together (Vecherai, Rado). It is great song to launch their recording career. It has a memorable melody and is a hot pop dance song with a little ethnic feel and also has a very strong production.
Together (Vecherai, Rado) is composed by Cristian Tarcea and the 4 Magic girls Elia Todorova, Valentina Nikova, Nikol Kaneva, Eleonora Ivanova. It is produced by Cristian Tarcea @ Thrace Music. The song and video are courtesy of Virginia Records
Three of the 4 Magic girls had took part in the Bulgarian Junior Eurovision national selections, but it is since forming and winning the X Factor, Elia, Valentina, Nikol and Eleonora have generated an amazing buzz in Bulgaria and are set for big things locally and internationally.
You can see the video for Together (Vecherai, Rado) below.
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