Darina Krasnovetska has been selected to represent Ukraine at the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest with the song Say Love.
Although there was an online vote for songs selected in the national final it was an expert jury who had the final say in picking Darina to go to Belarus in November.
Darina is 11 years old and has appeared in The Voice Kids Ukraine and won the Black Sea Games twice festival on two occasions.
The five acts to the final from first Depi Mankakan Evratesil semi-final
The first semi-final of the 2018 Depi Mankakan Evratesil (Junior Eurovision national selection) took place in Armenia with five acts making it through to the grand final.
Dalita & Mika
Dalita Avanessian and Mika Varosyan were the presenters of the show. They sang a duet at the beginning. Dalita represented Armenia at the 2011 Junior Eurovision Song Contest with the Welcome To Armenia. She is a top recording artist and tv personality and recently released a duet of Heroes (the 2015 Eurovision winning song of Sweden) with Sergey Sysuev from Ukraine in a joint combination of Armenian, Ukrainian and English languages.
11 acts competed in the first semi-final and they were –
1. Anna – 1 2 3 4
2. Arpi – Par
3. Nare Elizbaryan – Du karogh es
4. GorX – Why Don’t?
5. Vardan Margaryan – Chanaparh
6. 1+1 – Misht miasin
7. Eliza – Im Yerazank
8. ANI – Angels
9. Maria Petrosyan – Happy Birthday
10. L.E.V.O.N – L.E.V.O.N
11. Lia – Kamats-Kamats
Voting was a combination of jury and televoting.
The five acts to qualify for the final are –
ANI
Vardan Margaryan
L.E.V.O.N
Lia
Maria Petrosyan
The second semi-final will take place on Sunday 16 September.
Daniel Aleks Yastremskiy has been selected to represent Belarus on his home turf in November at the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. His song is entitled Time.
Myata – Odnazhdy
Daniel Aleks Yastremskiy – Time
Yelizaveta Meya – Zorka
Artem Skorol – Ulybnis
Angelina Yaroshchuk – Feeling Good
Monkey Tops – Na stile
Mariya Zhilina – Welcome To My Belarus
Yaroslav Sokolikov – Mir na zemle
Nikita Belko – Ne preday
Mariya Gulevich – Ostrov Chikarum
You can see Daniel perform his winning song below.
Last week we were advised there would be a record 19 countries taking part in the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Well make that now 20 !! Ukraine have decided after all to take part in the contest.
This is great news for the contest and Ukraine are also a previous winner back in 2012 with Anastasiya Petryk and Nebo. Can they do it again?!!
Anna Filipchuk has won the national selection and will therefore represent Russia at the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest with the song Nepobedimy (Invincible).
12 acts participated in the grand final at the Artek event held in Crimea. Judges included Polina Bogusevich (the winner of the 2017 JESC for Russia) and Sergey Lazarev (2016 ESC Russia).
Tamar Edilashvili has been chosen to represent Georgia at the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Minsk, Belarus after winning the special selection show Ranina
Tamar won through a tough competition where the acts performed with an orchestra and established Georgian singers each week.
Tamar is 12 years old and made it through to the finals of the 2017 X Factor Georgia.
In the grand final of Ranina, Tamar performed the Georgian winning song of the 2016 Junior Eurovision, Mzeo, by Mariam Mamadashvili.
The song for Tamar for the 2018 Junior Eurovision will be chosen later in the year.
You can see the moment Tamar was announced as winner of Ranina show below and also see her perform on X Factor Georgia in 2017. She has a very strong voice and will be a great competitor for Georgia at the Junior Eurovision.
