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Serbia: Petar Aničić releases full version of ‘Heartbeat’

Petar Aničić @RTS
Petar Aničić @RTS

Petar Aničić will sing Heartbeat for Serbia at the forthcoming Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

The full version of Heartbeat and the official music video have now been released.

Heartbeat is a ballad and in the video clip Petar does some rowing. The video was filmed in Belgrade and Ada in Serbia.

You can see the music video preview clip for Heartbeat below.

Source: ESC Covers; junioreurovision.tv

 

Karakat Bashanova – Forever – Official Music Video

Kazakhstan has once again pulled out all the stops to continue its recent tradition of producing lavishly produced music videos for their Junior Eurovision entries.

In this years visually stunning production for Karakat Bashanova,  the young artist is imagined in bleak landscapes where echoes of family member both past and present fleetingly appear.

The moving ballad  is dedicated to her recently deceased Father.

 

Spain: Soleá releases full version of ‘Palante’

Soleá @rtve
Soleá @rtve

Soleá has released the full version of her song Palante. This is the song that she will represent Spain with at the 2020 Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

Palante has a positive vibe with modern and reggaeton beats. The song is composed by César G. Ross, Hajar Sbihi and Bruno Valverde.

Soleá is just nine years old and is from the city of Seville in Spain. The music video was shot in her home city.

You can see the official preview video for Palante below.

Source: ESC Covers

 

Look out for PAVA and ‘My Wave’ in Belarus Junior Eurovision national selection

PAVA
PAVA from the video clip of ‘My Wave’

PAVA has a great song with My Wave and is one to look out for in the Belarus Junior Eurovision national selection. It has a strong and cool dance vibe with a lot of energy.

It has not yet been decided when Belarus will reveal the song for the 2020 Junior Eurovision.

My Wave is composed by Anastasia Marchuk and Polina Pavlyushchenko. The arrangement is by Pavel Osipenko.

Polina Pavlyushchenko is PAVA. She wasa popular contestant in The Voice Kids Ukraine and took part in the 2018 and 2019 Belarus JESC national finals (also as part of the ZEFIR group).

Check out My Wave below and ESC Covers wishes PAVA good luck with her quest to represent Belarus at Junior Eurovision.

Source: ESC Covers

Ranina Tour 1 episode 2 airs

After setting record viewing figures for the first episode, the popular Junior Eurovision selection show ‘Ranina’ returned to Georgian screens this evening for the second show of tour 1.

ranina-2020

The remaining 5 contestants all performed this evening on the tour 1 theme, acoustic/duets.

With all tour 1 performances now complete, Sandra Gadelia and Rati Gelovani hold a small joint lead as we head to Tour 2.

Watch all this evenings performances below:

Marita Khvedelidze

Nikoloz maghradze

Shio kavsadze

Veronika Shamugia

Sandra Gadelia

 

Georgia selection show ‘Ranina’ underway

‘Ranina’ the popular selection show for the Georgia representative for Junior Eurovision aired its first episode of the current season this evening.

With the contestants selected and announced, the show was originally scheduled for March/April, but fell victim to the Covid 19 pandemic.

This year’s show will be the third season following the selection of Tamar Edilashvili in 2018 and Giorgi Rostiashvili in 2019.

The show will follow the format of previous years with 5 artists initially each week performing in ‘tours’ or themed shows with no eliminations until the later stages.

You can watch all this weeks performances below:

Nia khinchikashvili

Lela Kveniashvili

Gio Gogiashvili

Sesili Turmanidze

Rati Gelovani

Spain reveals JESC 2020 participant

RTVE Spain has revealed that Soleá will represent them at Junior Eurovision 2020.

Solea - Spain

According to the press release issued on the official Junior Eurovision website ‘Soleá Fernandez Moreno was born in Sevilla on 19 June 2011 and comes from one of the most important flamenco families in Spain’

RTVE will work with Soleá  on the official song, which will be revealed in due course.

Full statement here:

https://junioreurovision.tv/story/its-solea-for-spain

Alexander Balabanov Wins Ukraine selection

Unconfirmed reports are that  Alexander Balabanov (Олександр Балабанов) has won the Ukraine selection for Junior Eurovision.

With only the jury voting being known, it would now appear that it is impossible for Alexander to be overtaken when the public vote closes tomorrow and therefore he will represent Ukraine in Junior Eurovision 2020.

The official result is due to be announced later this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXKvCkbIxY4

Alexander (14)  who also took part in the selection process in 2018 and 2019, will now have the opportunity to represent his country with the song ‘open’ (Відкривай)