With the outcome of the show already known due to the release of the official Junior Eurovision album earlier in the day, The Ranina final aired this evening with Sandra Gadelia taking the trophy.
Sandra was presented with the trophy by last years winner Giorgi Rostiashvili and will compete at Junior Eurovison 2020 with the song ‘You are not Alone’
As in previous years, each finalist performed two songs with some outstanding performances which you can watch below:
Ranina’s penultimate show aired this evening as the semi final was broadcast and the three artists who will compete in next weeks final revealed.
The five artists who won through from the themed rounds each performed this evening with Georgian artists ‘The Quintessence’.
Sandra Gadelia, Rati Gelovani and Marita Khvedelidze ultimately progressed through to next weeks final, where; if the show follows the same format of previous years, each artist will perform two songs before the winner is chosen.
Sofia Feskova will soon represent Russia at the 2020 Junior Eurovision Song Contest with her song My New Day (Moy novyy den). Sofia has just done an interview for the children’s Teledetki tv channel based in St Petersburg, Russia.
Two correspondents from Teledetki tv, Darya Marchenko and Adele Fattakhova, interviewed Sofia and talked about her rehearsals and her plans for Junior Eurovision.
Sofia told how she starts each day and how she prepares for school. Then she goes to the rehearsal studio every day to prepare for Junior Eurovision. The school of Igor Krutov is helping with all the preparations for Sofia, and they put her through difficult but important rehearsal procedures each day to make a Junior Eurovision performance as perfect as it can be.
The 2020 Junior Eurovision Song Contest will take place on 29 November. We wish Sofia lots of luck for the competition.
Thank you to Teledetki tv and their reporters – Darya Marchenko and Adele Fattakhova.
You can see the Teledetki tv video interview, in Russian, with Sofia below and also the official music video for My New Day (Moy novyy den) below.
Sofia Feskova will soon represent Russia at the 2020 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The official preview music video has been released of My New Day.
Sofia won the Russia Junior national selection back in September. The Russian title is Moy novyy den.
Sofia is 11 years old and she said about My New Day – “The meaning of the song is that one should never give up, keep going and fill every day with generosity and happiness”.
You can see the official video clip for My New Day below.
Ranina, the Georgian selection show for Junior Eurovision has begun it’s final ‘tour’ and following the format of previous years the final themed show was songs from Musicals.
With Rati Gelovania & Sandra Gadelia top of the leaderboard prior to the show, each of the 10 contestants will perform for one final time before the top 5 progress to the semi final.
Tonight’s performances:
Sesili Turmanidze – I Could Have Dance All Night – 111 Points
Rati Gelovani – When You Wish Upon A Star – 118 Points
Valentina was recently chosen to be the representative for France at the 2020 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Now her song J’Imagine (I imagine) has been released. It is an upbeat and fun song and is composed by the same writers as Carla – Bim Bam Toi (2019 JESC ). They are Barbara Pravi and Igit.
The preview video clip for J’Imagine was filmed in the city of Orléans in France. It looks fun with lots of dancing.
Valentina is also a member of the popular group Kids United Nouvelle Génération, who have had much success with their singles and albums and video clips.
You can see the official music video for J’Imagine below.
Kids United Nouvelle Génération have released a brand new music video for the song Sauver le monde (Save the world). The track is taken from the forthcoming album ‘Kids United Best of’ featuring all the top songs of Kids United and Kids United Nouvelle Génération.
The music video for Sauver le monde was filmed on the French territory of Réunion island.
One of the members of Kids United Nouvelle Génération is Valentina, who will represent France at the 2020 Junior Eurovision Song Contest.
The last album by Kids United Nouvelle Génération was entitled ‘L’hymne de la vie. They did a really catchy cover of Supertrouper by ABBA.
You can see the official video clip for Sauver le monde below as well as a chance to hear Supertrouper.
Oleksandr Balabanov has released the final version and official video for Vidkryvai (Open up). This is the song that he will represent Ukraine with at the 2020 Junior Eurovision Song Contest.
Oleksander was originally chosen to represent Ukraine at the JESC after an online competition where voting was a combination of online voting and expert jury.
You can see the official preview video for Vidkryvai below.
Valentina has been selected to represent France at the 2020 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. She is just 11 years old and is hoping to be as successful as Carla in 2019 and Angélina in 2018.
Valentina is a member of the popular group Kids United Nouvelle Génération and has currently recorded two albums with them. She also took part in The Voice Kids France in 2017.
The song for Valentina will be released shortly.
In the meantime you can see Valentina perform with Kids United Nouvelle Génération and the song Santiano and also her blind audition on The Voice Kids France singing Tra te e il mare by Laura Pausini below.