Czech Republic have chosen internally that Martina Bárta will represent them at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest in Ukraine in May.
More information about Martina’s song will be released in next couple of weeks. Martina is a jazz singer and musician. She has worked in Germany and was part of the jazz band 4 To The Bar.
You can see Martina perform L.O.V.E. with the Golden Big Band Prague below.
Source: www.eurovision.tv; Wikipedia; ESC Covers
Imri Ziv has won The Next Star for Eurovision competition and will represent Israel at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. The final consisted of four acts –
The song for Imri for Eurovision will be revealed within the next three weeks.
You can see Imri perform The Edge Of Glory (Lady Gaga) on The Next Star for Eurovision below.
Source: www.eurovision.tv; ESC Covers
Francesco Gabbani has won the 2017 San Remo festival and has accepted the invitation to sing for Italy at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev.
Francesco won the San Remo festival with the song Occidentali’s Karma. You can see the video for his winning song below. A dancing gorilla is even involved.
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Manel Navarro was declared the winner of Objetivo Eurovisión 2017 and will represent Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest with Do It For Your Lover in Ukraine in May.
Six acts competed –
Manel Navarro won the overall jury vote and Mirela won the public vote. There was a draw on 58 points each. The “expert” jury then decided two to one that Manel would win and represent Spain. It was not a popular choice for the audience in the studio and many fans watching.
You can see Manel perform his “winning” song below.
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France have decided that Alma will represent them at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev. She will sing the upbeat Requiem. The song is composed by Nazim Khaled.
Alma is 28 years old and is a respected and up and coming artist in her homeland. Requiem is available on most digital platforms and you can see the video for the song below.
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The theme and the logo for the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Kiev, Ukraine was revealed today. Celebrate Diversity is the message for the contest this year and a unique logo has been designed based on Ukrainian bead necklaces called Namysto.
The Eurovision Executive Supervisor, Jan Ola Sand, explained “The notion of celebrating Diversity builds on last year’s theme of ‘Come Together’ and is at the heart of Eurovision values: it is all inclusive and all about countries around Europe, and beyond, joining together to celebrate both our common ground and our unique differences, as well as some great music.”
Naviband have been chosen to represent Belarus with their song Historyja majho zyccia at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest after winning the national selection in Minsk tonight. 13 acts competed and the voting was a combination of expert jury and public voting.
1. Iuly – Children Of The World
2. Aleksandra Tkach – Be Stronger
3. Vladislav Kurasov – Follow The Play
4. Naviband – Historyja majho žyccia
5. Isaac Nightingale – On The Red Line
6. Kattie – Wild Wind
7. Nuteki – Take My Heart
8. Napoli – Let’s Come Together
9. Nikita Hodas – Voices In My Head
10. Angelica Pushnova – We Should Be Together
11. Anastasiya Sheverenko – We’ll Be Together
12. Lermont x Julic – Heart Beat
13. PROvokatsiya – My Love
There will be more reports and photos to come to come from ESC Covers reporter in Minsk, Eliana Gonchorova, to follow. In the meantime you can see Naviband with their winning song below.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIo43HKOUmg
Tako Gachechiladze has won the national selection in Georgia and will represent them at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest with her song Keep The Faith. The song has some political overtones. The voting was a combination of international jury and televoting. The contest was held at the Philharmonic Concert Hall in Tbilisi.
The 25 songs competing were –
1. Giorgi Chikovani –Make It Right
2. Brandon Stone & Eteri Beriashvili – Heyo Song
3. Rati Durglishvili – Why
4. Andria Gvelesiani – Revolutionise
5. Alisa Danelia – We Are Eternity
6. Nutsa Buzaladze – White Horses Run
7. Maliibu – We Live Once
8. EOS – Urban Signs
9. Dima Kobeshavidze – Scream
10. Trio Mandili – Me da shen
11. Tako Gachechiladze – Keep The Faith
12. Nino Basharuli – The Song Of Love
13. Elené Mikiashvili – Fighter
14. Misha Sulukhia – Magic
15. Mariko Lezhava – Light It Up
16. Mins – Crime
17. Sparkle – On The Top
18. Tornike Kipiani & Giorgi Bolotashvili – You Are My Sunshine
19. Temo Sajaia – All The Same
20. Sabina Chantouria – Stranger
21. Mariam Chachkhiani – Fly
22. Asea Sool – Nature
23. Nanuka Giogobiani – Let The Sunshine In
24. Oto Nemsadze & Group Limbo – Dear God
25. Davit Shanidze – Mtveris katsi
You can see Tako perform her winning song below.
Source: ESC Covers
The Greek broadcaster, ERT, have confirmed that Demy will represent them at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev in May. There will be a choice of three songs to select by public voting only all involving the team of Dimitris Kontopoulos and Fokas Evangelinos. They have previously worked with Sergey Lazarev and Elena Paparizou amongst others.
You can see two videos of Demy. First is her version in Greek of the Poli Genova entry from Bulgaria at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest, If Love Was A Crime, entitled Isovia Mazi and a song called I Alitheia Miazi Psema.
Source: wiwibloggs.com; ESC Covers
After a special online broadcast LeKlein was declared the winner of the public vote and therefore will take her place in the grand final of 2017 Objetivo Eurovisión with five other selected acts by TVE. The final will takes place in February to see who will eventually represent Spain at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest.
The six finalists are –
Source: www.eurovision.tv
Photos: copyright@eurovision.tv; TVE
