Ester Peony has won the Selecţia Naţională selection and will represent Romania at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest with her song On A Sunday.
12 finalists took to the stage –
Linda Teodosiu – Renegades
Olivier Kaye – Right Now
Laura Bretan – Dear Father
Teodora Dinu – Skyscraper
Claudiu Mirea – We Are The Ones
Aldo Blaga – Your Journey
Ester Peony – On A Sunday
Letiția Moisescu and Sensibil Balkan – Daina
Bella Santiago – Army Of love
Trooper – Destin
Dya and Lucian Colareza – Without You (Sin ti)
Vaida – Underground
The big favourite was Laura Bretan and also Bella Santiago was highly rated. Laura won the televote but the “expert jury” outweighed the public and Ester has won the ticket to Tel Aviv.
The special guests included Netta (2018 ESC Israel – winner); Emmelie de Forest (2013 ESC Denmark – winner) and Inis Neziri (Cerbul de Aur – Golden Stage festival – winner and Festivalii Këngës #56 second runner up Albania).
Victor Crone was victorious at the Eesti Laul with his song Storm and therefore will represent Estonia at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Israel in May.
Victor is actually from Sweden and Storm is composed by Victor with Stig Rästa, Vallo Kikas and Fred Krieger.
The finalists were –
Sissi – Strong
Lumevärv ft. Inga – Milline päev
Victor Crone – Storm
Kerli Kivilaan – Cold Love
xtra basic & Emily J – Hold Me Close
Kadiah – Believe
Synne Valtri – I’ll Do It My Way
Stefan – Without You
The Swingers, Tanja & Birgit – High Heels In The Neighbourhood
Uku Suviste – Pretty Little Liar
Inger – Coming Home
Sandra Nurmsalu – Soovide puu
From the above three acts qualified for a super final – Uku Suviste, Stefan and Victor Crone.
It was Victor who took the crown and will fly the Estonian flag in Tel Aviv.
Bilal Hassani was recently selected to represent France at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Roi (King). Bilal won the Destination Eurovision national selection largely due to the massive public vote.
Now the official video clip has been released for Roi.
Tulia {from the music video of ‘Nothing Else Matters’}
The all girl group, Tulia, have been chosen to represent Poland at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. The band was selected internally by the broadcaster, TVP.
Tulia are Patrycja Nowicka, Dominika Siepka, Joanna Sinkiewicz and Tulia Biczak. They normally perform folk type music with a modern production.
The song that they will perform in Tel Aviv will be announced in the coming weeks.
You can see Tulia’s most recent music video Nothing Else Matters (a unique folk cover of the song by Metallica) below.
Mahmood has won the 2019 Sanremo festival and has taken up the challenge to represent Italy at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest with his song called Soldi (Money).
Mahmood took the top prize after votes by journalists, music jury and public voting. Soldi is an upbeat song with some rap.
You can see Mahmood perform his winning song Soldi below.
