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Elina Andriyevska releases her cover of ‘Back To Black’ by Amy Winehouse

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Elina Andriyevska is a young Swedish artist with Ukrainian background. She has just released a cover of the Amy Winehouse classic, Back To Black.

Elina has recorded a cool music video to accompany her version of the cover. Her brother, Nikolas, is in the video playing the cello.

Elina is an all round talented artist – she is a singer, model, dancer and actress. Her siblings are also very talented. Nikolas is a singer and musician and Yana plays the violin and is also a successful model and journalist.

You can see Elina and music video of Back To Black below.

Source: ESC Covers

https://youtu.be/8ikpeOuT1bA

2020 Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Ukraine Selects 11 Shortlist Finalists for Junior Eurovision

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Ukraine has selected the 11 artists that will complete for the honor of representing the country at Junior Eurovision 2020 in Warsaw, Poland.

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The chosen artists are:

Nikita Achkasov
Polina Babiy
Alexander Balabanov
Julia Karimi
Angelina McFarlane
Darin Osman
Yaroslav Politov
Angelina Terennikova
Olena Usenko
Daniela Shapochnikova
Sofia Shkidchenko

Voting will take place online in early September with the winner being selected by a combination of the online votes and those if the professional jury.

You can listen to all the shortlisted artists and find more about them at the official site here:

https://junior.eurovision.ua/shortlist

2020 Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Ukraine Junior Eurovision selection underway – First Artists/Songs released!

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As reported here last week the Ukraine selection process for Junior Eurovision 2020 is now underway and several artists have already submitted, and had their songs released on the official YouTube Channel.

4 artist have had their songs released and you can listen to each below.

Maria Tkachuk who also entered last years Ukraine selection is back to try again with her song ‘встигнемо все!’ (Time for everything!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Priz4UpnNVM

Maria Danilova will be hoping to make it to the final with her song “Сяйво” (Shine)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcx5cGI3YDA

The third hopeful is Karina Zayets with her song “жива” (Alive)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usBYXvKtmdU

Song 4 – Julia Karimi – ‘People’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMBYcB6_EJI

 A great initial selection from Ukraine – We will keep you updated as more are released.

2020 Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Ukraine Junior selection process revealed

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Ukraine public broadcaster has revealed the process for selection of their Junior Eurovision participant for 2020 in Warsaw, Poland

In a change to previous years, it was announced ‘For the first time, the Public is expanding opportunities and changing the selection conditions so that talented children can enter an international competition, even if they do not have their own song. The selection of the representative of Ukraine for the Junior Song Contest “Eurovision-2020” will take place online, and everyone will be able to vote for their favorite.’

In early September, the finalists will be announced and as in previous years  the public will be able to view and vote for their favourite songs and artist.

The winner will be announced on 12th September after consideration of the public vote by the Internal jury.

Full details of the process can be found in the announcement here:

https://corp.suspilne.media/newsdetails/2789

2019 Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Sophy Ivy album C.F released.

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ukraUkThis weekend saw the release of Sophia Ivanko’s first album C.F. on all major digital streaming services.

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The 7 track debut features 6 self penned songs (with 2 versions of The spirit of music)

1: Crazy Friend
2: Eyes
3: Alice
4: Vampire
5: Whisper
6: The spirit of music (Remix)
7: The spirit of music – Eurovision edition

Sophia’s circus master outfit on the cover hints at the tone of the album which takes the listener on a journey through a (sometimes) dark circus carnival of songs.

Think Junior Eurovision meets Tim Burton meets Alice in Wonderland and you will get a sense of Sophia’s unique, mature sound.

Available now on all major streaming platforms:

 

Home videos

HOME VIDEOS – ARCADE – JAMALA

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During the lock down in Europe over the Eurovision period in May, many Eurovision singers did home videos of other Eurovision artists songs. In the wake of ESC COVERS COVER2COVER singing competition, we will feature some of these so South African artists in particular can get an idea how it is done. Nor Bert of EuroVisionMusic picked the ones as he followed the whole series.

The tenth video is JAMALA from UKRAINE  (who represented her country at the 2016 Eurovision song contest with 1944 and won it, covering the Eurovision winner from the NETHERLANDS  2019 – ARCADE of DUNCAN LAURENCE.

2019 Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Sophia Ivanko Album released July 25th

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Sophia Ivanko who represented Ukraine at the 2019 Junior Eurovision song contest, has been keeping herself busy during lockdown and is set to release her first album.

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Sophia today revealed that her album C.F. will be released into all Digital music stores on July 25th.

Using her stage name Sophy Ivy. the album contains 7 tracks – 5 brand new ones (including ‘Crazy Friend’ from which the title of the album ‘C.F.’ is derived).

Also included are the original and a remix of Sophie’s 2019 Eurovision entry ‘The spirit of music’ which she teased on her Instagram page a few weeks ago

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Gruppa COCOS/Ukraine

Gruppa COCOS reveal new line up

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The hot and talented Ukrainian girl band Gruppa COCOS are back with brand new line up and ready to take on Europe and the world. After a series of auditions the group will now consist of Victoria, Natasha and Anya.

Natasha and Anya are new to Gruppa COCOS. Victoria had performed with the previous incarnation of the band.

Gruppa COCOS received nomination in 2019 as the best girl group.

Victoria, Natasha and Anya will now continue the Gruppa COCOS project with power vocals and style and with an even more sexier image.

We look forward to the coming music from Gruppa COCOS.

Source: ESC Covers

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