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Elene Arachashvili/X Factor Georgia

Elene Arachashvili achieves great praise and audience reaction in X Factor Georgia audition

8 May 2018 Ian Fowell Leave a comment

Elene Arachashvili gave a very impressive performance in her audition for X Factor Georgia. Elene performed Man Down by Rihanna with an incredible confidence and swagger on the stage. The judges were very positive about her and the audience were up and cheering and shouting.

ESC Covers will follow Elene’s journey on this new season of X Factor. It will be very interesting to see her future performances and what imagination and creativity she will bring to the stage.

Elene was a member of The Funkids who represented Georgia at the 2012 Junior Eurovision Song Contest with Funky Lemonade.

Check out Elene’s performance of Man Down and all the reaction below.

Source: ESC Covers; Rustavi 2; thexfactor.ge

Christine Restakyan

Georgia: Listen to Christine Restakyan and her new song ‘Maybe’

28 April 2018 Ian Fowell Leave a comment

Christine Restakyan {copyright: facebook.com/christinerestakyan}

Christine Restakyan is a promising young singer and songwriter to watch from Georgia. She has just released a brand new single entitled Maybe. Christine composed the song herself and it has a haunting and almost James Bond type theme to it. Her clear and powerful vocals totally suit this track.

I am sure we will be hearing more from Christine in the future. In the meantime check out Maybe below.

Source: ESC Covers

Iriao/For You

Iriao will sing ‘For You’ for Georgia at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest

14 March 2018 Ian Fowell Leave a comment

Iriao - from the video clip of 'For You' — Iriao – from the video clip of ‘For You’

Iriao have released the song that they will represent Georgia with at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. The song is entitled For You.

You can see the official video of For You below.

Source: Eurovision.tv; ESC Covers

The Quintessence

Listen to the vocal jazz sounds of The Quintessence from Georgia

3 March 2018 Ian Fowell 1 Comment

The Quintessence are a unique group ensemble from Georgia who specialise in vocal jazz music. They have had success at many festivals around the world in places such as Germany, Austria, USA, Finland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia and more.

The group consists of Natia Svanadze, Salome Dolidze, Elene Dolidze, Saba Chachanidze, Giorgi Toradze and Lasha Murvanidze. Buka Kartozia is the man behind the idea of forming the group who perform fascinating adaptations of different style of popular music. The vocal harmonies blend perfectly in tune to classic songs and they give a lot of emotion.

You can hear their latest work with a cover of the Manhattan Transfer hit Chanson D’Amour below and you can see a performance of the group in New York, USA.

Maybe we will see The Quintessence take to the Eurovision stage in the future.

You can read more about The Quintessence at their official website http://quintessence-jazz.com/about-2/

Source: ESC Covers

Iriao

Iriao will represent Georgia at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest

2 January 2018 Ian Fowell Leave a comment

The local broadcaster, GPB, have announced that the band Iriao will represent Georgia at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Portugal in May.

Iriao are known as being a jazz type band with ethnic influences. There are seven members in the band so, unfortunately, one of them will not be on the stage in Lisbon.

You can see a video clip of Iriao performing below. The song for Eurovision will be confirmed in the near future.

Source: ESC Bubble; ESC Covers

2017 Junior Eurovision Song Contest

JUNIOR EUROVISION – GEORGIA

17 December 2017 Roy van der Merwe Leave a comment

In Tbilisi at the Junior Eurovision song contest a great program book was handed out looking very much like those at ADULT Eurovision. Roy of ESC Covers had each of the 16 acts sign the book and for the next days we will post it. Today we can highlight the fiftheen one – it is the GEORGIA who ended with 185 points – they were the host country and won the jury vote.

2017 Junior Eurovision Song Contest

A special mention for Grigol Kipshidze and his backing vocalists on stage for Georgia at the 2017 Junior Eurovision

13 December 2017 Ian Fowell 1 Comment

Grigol Kipshidze recently gave an amazing performance for Georgia at the 2017 Junior Eurovision Song Contest with his beautiful and soulful song Voice Of The Heart. He charmed many people with his outstanding show and pure and silk like vocals.

Grigol was joined on stage by four charming and talented young girls who gave such a sweet performance also. The girls were Anastasia Altunashvili, Dea Nalbandishvili, Taisia Koridze and Kato Phkhakadze.

ESC Covers congratulates Grigol and his beautiful girls on a memorable performance and we think all of them have a big future ahead in the music business.

You can see performance by Grigol and the girls of Voice Of The Heart below.

Source: ESC Covers

The Virus

The Virus entertained with new song during 2017 Junior Eurovision Song Contest

1 December 2017 Ian Fowell Leave a comment

The Virus gave a fun and happy performance as part of the interval celebrations after eight songs during the 2017 Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

Some countries had commercial breaks during this exciting performance but The Virus (Tako, Elee and Data) should not be forgotten as they entertained the watching audience with a lively and exciting short show.

The Virus represented Georgia at the 2015 Junior Eurovision Song Contest with Gabede.

Also, a special mention for member of The Virus, Liz. She was on hand to read out the Georgian jury results at the show. Liz will continue as a solo singer in the future.

You can see The Virus performance below.

Source: ESC Covers

Giga Kukhiandze

Giga Kukhianidze: The man behind the big success of Junior Eurovision in Georgia

24 November 2017 Ian Fowell Leave a comment

Giga Kukhianidze {copyright: facebook.com/giga.kukhianidze}

Giga Kukhiandze is the man with the golden touch when it comes to Junior Eurovision. His songwriting is phenomenal and he has recorded three wins for Georgia at this fabulous competition. First up he won in 2008 with the group Bzikebi and Bzzz…, then we had the fabulous and funky all girl band, Group Candy and Candy Music then in 2016 with the beautiful Mzeo by Mariam Mamadishvili.

We can thank Giga for a lot of the incidental music for the 2017 Junior Eurovision Song Contest and for making it so memorable. He has composed the opening song for the kids and also for the hosts Lizi Pop and Helen Kalandadze.

Giga also composed a song for The Virus which is part of the interval entertainment. Giga has also composed the Georgian JESC entries by Mariam Kakhelishvili and Mari-Dari, 2012 The Funkids and Funky Lemonade, 2013 The Smile Shop and Give Me Your Smile, 2014 Lizi Pop sang Happy Day and in 2015 The Virus gave us Gabede.

Going by the wonderful success of Giga and his team at Bzikebi studios at the Junior Eurovision maybe it is time for Georgia to consider him to be involved at the adult Eurovision Song Contest.

Source: ESC Covers

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