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Oto Nemsadze and the team from Georgia were all in an upbeat mood after their second rehearsal at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest.
ESC Covers interviewed Oto and he said he had big experience of music competitions. His preferred style is pop/rock music.
The Georgian song Sul tsin iare is receiving positive reviews.
Source: ESC Covers
Mariam Mamadashvili charmed a lot of people when she won the 2016 Junior Eurovision Song Contest for Georgia with the beautiful song, Mzeo. Her powerful and crystal clear vocals won the hearts of the judges and public in Malta and around the world.
So, what is Mariam up to these days? Well she is currently residing in the USA and is studying at the Broadway Method Academy.
Earlier this year Mariam performed in a Broadway production of the popular musical, Annie, where she played the character, Daffy. For those of us who remember Mariam singing Mzeo, a lot of us imagined her to go on and perform in musicals and this was a great experience for her performing and learning from some of the best Broadway stars.
Most recently Mariam audition for a part in the musical Xanadu, and she has been chosen to play the lead role of Kira. She is currently very busy with rehearsals. She even has to dance and sing whilst on roller skates. Certainly a big challenge but I am sure Mariam will ‘nail it’. Xanadu will run on 10, 11, 12 May.
Mariam will perform on 6 May at a classical music evening in New York City. The classical Italian artist, Alessandro Benigni will play the piano for Mariam. So, she is showing much versatility with her singing (show music, pop and classical).
Mariam also auditioned to take part in the HBO Movie, The Plot Against America. She was chosen for a small role. It is going to be big production, so, she is really excited to be taking part in this project too.
As you can see Mariam is a very busy girl and of course she has to do her important school studies along side her singing and acting. She is doing a great job. Good luck to Mariam. I am sure we will be hearing a lot more of her in the near future.
Let us look back at Mariam’s memorable performance at the 2016 Junior Eurovision Song Contest with Mzeo below.
Source: ESC Covers
Elene & Oto have recorded an acoustic version of the song Blue Sky by Lou Berry. They have also filmed a charming video clip to accompany the track.
Blue Sky is a beautiful laid back track with a blues and soulful jazz feel.
Elene Mikiashvili provides the charming vocals and Oto Chavchanidze is the guitarist and also provides some vocals on the track.
The video is courtesy of Givi Maghradze and sound recording is by Nick Asoev.
Elene took part in the 2017 Georgian Eurovision national selection with Fighter and has also released some hits such as Emotions and Artificial Love and With Me with Giga Paparskiri. She was also a popular finalist of The Voice of Georgia three years ago, where her mentor was Anri Jokhadze (2012 ESC Georgia).
You can see the music video for Blue Sky below.
Source: ESC Covers
Iru Khechanova performed a charming ballad in the Chinese language entitled Túrán hǎo xiǎng nǐ (Suddenly I miss you). Iru performed the song for the Georgia multi media channel 4U.
Iru was a member of Candy, who won the 2011 Junior Eurovision Song Contest for Georgia in 2011 with Candy Music. She has since blossomed in to a very talented singer and dancer with a really bubbly and happy personality.
To sing a whole song in Chinese shows us another side of Iru. Túrán hǎo xiǎng nǐ is beautifully interpreted with crystal clear vocals and the song has a sweet melody.
We look forward to hearing more music from Iru in the future.
You can see Iru perform Túrán hǎo xiǎng nǐ below.
Source: ESC Covers
Nutsa Buzaladze has released a new single from her new album ‘Nutsa 22’. The track is called Gelodebi and it a beautiful song with a nice melody and orchestral sound.
Gelodebi and the album ‘Nutsa 22’ will be released via all download and streaming platforms.
The song Gelodebi is composed by Rusa Morchiladze and Irina Sanikidze.
Nutsa performed White Horse Run in the 2017 Georgia Eurovision national selection.
You can see the video clip for Gelodebi below.
Source: ESC Covers
An exciting new fantasy movie for families and children will be released by Giga Production on 21 March entitled ‘Izi and Jadokari’. It stars some popular Georgian actors and actresses and also features some familiar faces from Junior Eurovision.
Giga Kukhianidze, the man behind all of Georgia’s big successes at Junior Eurovision including three victories in 2008, 2011 and 2016, and his Giga Production company are responsible for the exciting release of the movie.
‘Izi and Jadokari’ features Junior Eurovision stars including – Elene Arachashvili – FunKids – 2012, and Tako Gagnidze, Lizi Tavberidze and Data Pavliashvili – The Virus – 2015).
You can see a trailer for ‘Izi and Jadokari’ below.
Source: ESC Covers
Oto Nemsadze has won the Georgian Idol series and he will represent Georgia at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest with his song Sul tsin iare (Go ahead).
Sul tsin iare is composed by Roman Giorgadze.
Three songs (all in the Georgian language) were chosen for the finalists. Sul tsin iare was performed by two acts –
Oto was accompanied on stage by five powerful male backing vocalists including Misho Javakhishvili, who was a member of Ethno-Jazz Band Iriao (2018 ESC Georgia).
You can see Oto perform his winning song below.
Source: ESC Covers; Eurovision.tv
Another busy night of national selections continued –
SWEDEN
The fourth semi-final of the 2019 Melodifestivalen took place in Lidköping.
The two acts direct to the final are –
The two acts to go to the second chance phase are Lisa Ajax and Arvingarna.
The duels for the Andra Chansen have been made –
>Andreas Johnson vs Anna Bergendahl
• Vlad Reiser vs Nano
• Martin Stenmarck vs Lisa Ajax
• Rebecka Karlsson vs Arvingarna
PORTUGAL
The four acts to qualify for the final of the 2019 Festival da Canção are –
GEORGIA
The four finalists for Georgian Idol are –
The artist eliminated this week was Nini Tsnobiladze.
Source: ESC Covers; Eurovision.tv; eurovoix
Besides four more entries being selected it was another busy night for national selection qualifiers –
SWEDEN
The qualifiers from the third semi-final of the 2019 Melodifestivalen from Leksand were –
The two acts to go to the second change phase are – Martin Stenmarck and Rebecka Karlsson.
HUNGARY
The 2019 A Dal continued with the last semi-final.
The four acts to qualify were –
UKRAINE
The 2019 Vidbir competition continued and three acts made it to the final –
ICELAND
The 2019 Söngvakeppnin continued and two acts direct to the final –
The final wildcard place for the final was awarded to Kristina Skoubo Bærendsen.
LITHUANIA
The Eurovizijos Atranka 2019 continued and four acts qualified for the final –
GEORGIA
Georgian Idol carried on and there are now five acts remaining after the elimination of Tamar Lachkhepiani.
PORTUGAL
The 2019 Festival da Canção begun and four acts qualified for the final –
Source: Eurovision.tv; ESC Covers; eurovisionbubble
Nutsa Buzaladze is a respected and also still a rising star from Georgia. She has released her debut album entitled ‘22′. It is a top quality album with a first class production. The album is quite diverse with many different styles of music. Her multicultural nature and talent are fluent through the various tracks
Nutsa hosted a special press conference for journalists at Bravo Records in Tbilisi. She explained she had been dreaming of recording an album since she was a little girl. Nutsa began recording the album last year when she was 21 years old. Now one year later she decided to name the album ‘22′.
Nutsa has already had much success. She won the festival New Wave 2014, she competed O Ses Türkiye (The Voice of Turkey). She was also successful on Georgia’s Got Talent, Your Face Sounds Familiar and Dancing With The Stars in Georgia.
In 2017 Nutsa participated in the Georgian Eurovision national selection and was runner up with the emotional ballad White Horses Run.
The album ‘22′ will be available to purchase from all musical platforms in March.
You can see the press conference at the link below where Nutsa performed two songs. One was in the Georgian language and also a song in English. Nutsa described the English song Like An Ocean, as a Eurovision type song. She would very much like to perform on the Eurovision stage one day.
Source: ESC Covers; Bravo Records Georgia
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