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Junior Eurovision Day 4 – Georgia/France/Belarus

Georgia

Sandra Gadelia representing Georgia with her song ‘You are not alone’ was the first of today’s performance teaser clips.

Sandra can be seen wearing a stunning three dimensional dress adorned with flowers which match the crowns worn by the four ballet dancers who accompany the performance on stage.

France

After a year off, The Eiffel tower makes a welcome return for France and this time it dances!

France’s staging is once again a very colorful affair with a blaze of bright pink and sky blue lighting Valentina’s energetic performance.

Belarus

Belerus seem to have chosen to recreate something similar to the music video for Arina Pehtreva’s stage performance of her Powerful and haunting song ‘Aliens’.

In the teaser, Arina can be seen wearing the same striking white coat as worn in the music video.

 

Georgia: Sandra Gadelia releases official music video for ‘You Are Not Alone’

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Sandra Gadelia has released the official music video for her song You Are Not Alone. This is the song she will represent Georgia with at the 2020 Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

The music video for You Are Not Alone is beautifully filmed in a lovely Georgian ‘olde worlde’ setting. Sandra is accompanied by four female violinists, a girl keyboard player, a female drummer and a boy DJ.

Welcome back to Giga Kukhiandze, who is the composer of You Are Not Alone. Giga is man behind Georgia’s three wins at Junior Eurovision (Bzikebi in 2008 with Bzzz…, Group Candy in 2011 with Candy Music and Mariam Mamadishvili with Mzeo in 2016). Giga also composed the Georgian JESC entries by Mariam Kakhelishvili (2010 with Mari-Dari, 2012 The Funkids and Funky Lemonade, 2013 The Smile Shop and Give Me Your Smile, 2014 Lizi Pop with Happy Day and in 2015 The Virus gave us Gabede.

Sandra is just 10 years old and she has a charming and powerful voice. She won the ‘Ranina’ national selection competition in Georgia with some much acclaimed performances.

You can see the official video clip for You Are Not Alone below.

Source: ESC Covers; GPB

Sandra Gadelia wins Ranina

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:

Rati Gelovani – 3rd

Maria Khvedelidze – 2nd

Sandra Gadelia – Winner

Christine Restakyan releases music video for ‘Les Feuilles Mortes’ by Yves Montand

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Christine Restakyan

Christine Restakyan has released a brand new music video with her interpretation of the song Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves) by Yves Montand. It is a beautiful and laid back song and Christine’s vocals are charming and crystal clear.

The music video for Les Feuilles Mortes is beautifully filmed in the autumn countryside in Georgia.

Christine is a talented singer and songwriter based in Georgia. Check out more of Christine’s music on her official YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEAO_4foXnxq16C43sBCLNw .

Christine also released her song Hope that she submitted to the Armenia Eurovision selection in 2020.

Another impressive cover that Christine sung recently was Fever by Dua Lipa & Angèle.

You can see Les Feuilles Mortes video and Fever below.

Source: ESC Covers

 

Georgia ‘Ranina’ finalists revealed

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.

Watch this evenings winning performances below.

Marita Khvedelidze

Sandra Gadelia

Rati Gelovani

Ranina Semi finalists revealed

The last themed round of ‘Ranina’ concluded this evening with the remaining five artists performing and the semi finalists being revealed.

Progressing to the semi finals are:  Sandra Gadelia  – Rati Gelovani  – Marita Khvedelidze – Nia Khinchikashvil – Shio Kavsadze

Performing this evening were:

Marita Khvedelidze – Journey To The Past –  119/120 points

Shio Kavsadze – A Million Dreams – 117/120 points

Nikoloz Maghradze – I See The Light – 113/120 points

Veronika Shamugia – Almost There – 120/120 points

Sandra Gadelia – Let It Go – 117/120 points

 

Ranina Georgia selection begins final tour

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.

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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

Nia Khinchikashvili – Something’s Coming – 120 Points

Gio Gogiashvili – Be Our Guest – 113 Points

Lela Kveniashvili – Don’t Rain On My Parade – 119 Points

 

 

Listen: Christine Restakyan and her recent covers … and a performance of ‘Hope’

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Christine Restakyan is a talented young singer and songwriter from Georgia. ESC Covers has previously written about Christine’s music and we would like to bring your attention to some of her recent covers.

Check out below her covers of Holy by Justin Bieber feat. Chance The Rapper, Diamonds by Sam Smith and Ice Cream by Blackpink with Selena Gomez.

Christine also recently performed her original song Hope on tv. It was a song that she submitted for the Armenia Eurovision selection in 2020.

You can see more of Christine’s music on her official YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEAO_4foXnxq16C43sBCLNw

Source: ESC Covers

Lizi Japaridze ‘Toxic World’

Just a few days after her 2014 Junior Eurovision song ‘Happy day’ re-entered the official Junior Eurovision channel’s most watched video’s for September at number 2, Lizi Japaridze has dropped a new song and video on her official YouTube channel.

Titled ‘Toxic World’, the slick video introduces us to a more mature sounding Lizi tackling the theme of toxicity after relationships break down.

Set to an uptempo beat, there are hints of influences from Ava Max and other contemporary artists which evidence Lizi’s transformation from child star to contemporary artist.

Lizi pop is dead, Long live Lizi Japaridze!

 

COVER2COVER PROMOTIONAL PLATFORM

Since Monday 28 September, the ESC COVERS website (with our partners Eurovision coverage, EuroVisionMusic, Destination Eurovision and the radio station x5 stereo) started promoting the COVER2COVER concept. It is not a competition anymore but a promotion platform and hopefully South African artists will send covers to us. The 3 entries we received, Helena, Anton and Marle, will be carried over to the coverage. Victor Bush is once again our model and he will be holding promo items, CD’s and bags of some of the entries from the Eurovision song contest. The sixth one is of GEORGIA. It was not for a specific entry as such but brought more to promote Georgia as a country, a tourist destination.

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