The second semi-final of the 2015 Eesti Laul took place in Tallinn last night. 10 acts competed and five progressed to the grand final.
The five acts to make it to the final are –
The voting was a combination of jury and televoting.
Source: www.eurovision.tv
The second semi-final of the 2015 Melodifestivalen took place in Malmö last night. Two more acts qualified for the final and two acts have a second hope through the Andra Chansen show.
Sanna Nielsen, who represented Sweden at the Eurovision in Copenhagen in 2014 with Undo, and Robin Paulsson, a comedian, were the presenters.
The seven acts and songs were –
The two acts to qualify directly to final via televoting were Mariette and Magnus Carlsson. Also, Linus Svenning and Samir & Viktor go to the Andra Chansen phase.
Source: www.eurovision.tv
The three man pop/opera group Il Volo have won the 2015 Festival di Sanremo and will represent Italy at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest. The song is entitled Grand amore. It is not 100% certain yet if this will be the song they will perform in Vienna or if it will be another song.
The top three acts as decided by jury and televoting were –
You can hear and the official video for Grand amore below.
Source: www.eurovision.tv, RAI
After three quarter finals of the A Dal in Hungary the first semi-final took place. Nine acts competed and four progressed to the final to take place on 28 February.
The nine acts and songs were –
The expert jury voted for Zoltán Mujahid, Ádám Szabó and Boggie. The televoting decided that Spoon would join them in the final.
Source: www.eurovision.tv
The waiting is almost over. Tonight in the first of two ‘finals’ the actual song to go to Vienna for the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest would be decided.
The three finalists each performed the final three songs –
The finalists –
After a combination of local jury, international jury and televoting the winning song is This Time composed by Vytautas Bikus and Monika Liubinaitė.
The final to decide which act will represent Lithuania in Vienna is on 21 February.
Source: www.esccovers.com, LRT.LT
María Ólafsdóttir was victorious in the Söngvakeppnin grand final and will represent Iceland at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest with her song Unbroken. Tonight María performed the song that in the semi-final was sung in the Icelandic language Lítil Skref.
Seven songs battled it out this evening. The acts and songs were –
The expert jury and televoting decided that two songs would make it to the superfinal. They were –
After televoting only María Ólafsdóttir was declared the winner with Unbroken. The song was composed by the band StopWaitGo (who also wrote the runner up song).
You can see María perform Unbroken below.
Erika Selin will perform her song Break Me Up in the 2015 Ireland Eurosong final to be held on 27 February. Erika is from Sweden and her upbeat song is composed by Gustav Eurén, Niclas Arn and Danne Attlerud.
Two of the composers, Niclas and Gustav, wrote Kom for Timoteij in the Swedish Melodifestivalen in 2010. Infact, Erika made the original demo version of that song.
Erika has appeared in top talent shows in Sweden – Idols and Talang. She is looking forward to taking part in the Irish final and would be proud to represent Ireland at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna.
You can see the video for Break Me Up below and the song is also available on iTunes and other digital platforms.
Finland began their process of selecting their Eurovision act and singer for Vienna last weekend. Six acts competed in the UMK and three made it through to the final.
The three to make it the final were –
Source: www.eurovision.tv
Australia will participate in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest. This is a ‘one off’ event as part of the the 60th anniversary celebrations of the contest. It also fits in to the Eurovision theme this year of Building Bridges.
The broadcaster will be SBS and Australia will go straight to the final on 23 May in Vienna and will also be eligible to vote in both of the semi-finals. For many years now there has much much excitement and support from Australia for Eurovision. It will be a great occasion for them to join Europe in this massive event.
It has yet to be decided how Australia will select their song. SBS will provide more information soon.
In 2014 Australia played a significant part in one of the Eurovision semi-final interval act with an Oz theme. Jessica Mauboy performed Sea Of Flags to an excited audience.
Australia’s participation brings the amount of countries taking part to 40 in 2015.
Source: www.eurovision.tv
Neringa Šiaudikytė was a recent participant in the 2015 Lithuanian Eurovision selection. Despite leaving the show she is already involved in some exciting new projects.
Last weekend saw the premier of the Back To 90s show at the Macao club in Kaunas in Lithuania. Neringa performed with a group that also included Skaistė Steikūnaitė, Oksana Pikul and Vita Jakutienė. The girls performed retro songs to produce a happy and good feel for all taking part and watching the show. Neringa performed two solo songs. They were Alone and Ain’t Gonna Lie. There was a lot of media attention for this unique concert.
Besides the Back to 90s concert, Neringa is also performing solo concerts with her band. So things are looking great for Neringa and we also await more song releases from her in the near future.
You can hear Neringa’s song Alone below.
Source: www.esccovers.com