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Christine Restakyan/Georgia

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

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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

 

2020 Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Georgia ‘Ranina’ finalists revealed

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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

2020 Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Ranina Semi finalists revealed

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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

 

2020 Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Ranina Georgia selection begins final tour

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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

 

 

Christine Restakyan/Georgia

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

2014 Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Lizi Japaridze ‘Toxic World’

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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!

 

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COVER2COVER PROMOTIONAL PLATFORM

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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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2014 Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Lizi Japaridze returns with hot new song ‘Toxic World’

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Lizi Japaridze makes a welcome return with her brand new song entitled Toxic World. It is an upbeat and energetic track with a strong production and almost 80s retro feel. Definitely radio friendly and makes you want to move.

Toxic World is composed by Lizi Japaridze (lyrics)  Giga Kukhianidze (music and arrangement). It is mixed and mastered by Koba Meskhia.

The cool and dramatic music video is directed by Khatuna Giorgobiani. The video artist is Marika Kurdubazde and the videographer is Levan Iremashvili. The gaffer is Ilia Pheradze and the video editor is Ramaz Gunava.

The management is Giga Production and the producer is Giga Kukhianidze.

Lizi (Lizi Pop) represented Georgia at the 2014 Junior Eurovision Song Contest with Happy Day. She has certainly come a long way since those days and looks to have a big future ahead of her.

You can see the official video clip for Toxic World below.

Source: ESC Covers – © 2020 GigaProduction

2020 Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Ranina Tour 1 episode 2 airs

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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.

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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

 

2020 Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Georgia selection show ‘Ranina’ underway

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‘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