Eurovision Song Contest 2019

haiducii · Feb 11, 2019

The Eurovision Song Contest 2019 will be the 64th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. On 13 September 2018, the EBU announced Tel Aviv as the host city, with Expo Tel Aviv as the selected venue for the 2019 contest. The show will consist of two semi-finals on 14 and 16 May, and the final on 18 May 2019.

The 2019 contest will take place in Israel for the third time, after 1979 and 1999, following the country's victory at the 2018 edition with the song "Toy", performed by Netta Barzilai.

Forty-two countries will take part in the contest, with Bulgaria absent for the first time since 2015.

On 25 January 2019, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (IPBC/KAN) announced that four presenters will host the three shows: TV hosts Erez Tal and Assi Azar who work for the Israeli Channel 12, supermodel Bar Refaeli, and KAN host Lucy Ayoub, who was also the Israeli spokesperson at the 2018 contest. Tal and Refaeli will be the main hosts, while Azar and Ayoub would be hosting the green room.

haiducii · Feb 11, 2019

United Kingdom: Michael Rice - Bigger Than Us

The British public, via telephone and online vote, eventually got to decide who would succeed SuRie as the country's next Eurovision pride. They chose Michael Rice (born 1997) and his version of Bigger Than Us to represent the country in the Grand Final of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, 18th of May in Tel Aviv.

Rice was already the hot favourite with the bookmakers to win the ticket to Tel Aviv. He won the first series of BBC One's singing competition All Together Now in 2018, and also appeared in the eleventh series of The X Factor in 2014.

Charlotte Runcie of The Daily Telegraph approved of the choice of song for the United Kingdom's Eurovision entry, praising Michael Rice's vocals and calling the track "a perfectly respectable Eurovision-friendly power ballad with a key change. Nothing special but, crucially, nothing embarrassing."

haiducii · Feb 11, 2019

Spain: Miki - La Venda

The Spanish TV viewers decided who their representative for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv will be during their national selection Operación Triunfo. Ten songs competed to become the Spanish entry for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. Miki Núñez (born 1996) won the competition with 34% of the votes and will perform the song 'La Venda' at the Grand Final on the 18th of May in Israel.

Miki Nuñez, is a singer/songwriter from Terrassa (Barcelona). He has taken guitar and piano lessons as well as studied a Degree in Administration and Management. Prior to entering the reality talent show ''Operación Triunfo'', Miki was a singer in the covers band Dalton Bang with whom he has toured most of his region, Catalonia.

"La venda" (English: The blindfold) is a song written by Adrià Salas, who is the lead vocalist of the Latin Grammy-nominated band La Pegatina. Judy Cantor-Navas of Billboard described "La venda" as a "rousing party anthem, the kind of popular Spanish song that typically animates both soccer stadiums and neighborhood festivals" and as a Eurovision entry that "will please the crowd" rather than "depend on the artist's vocal talent to wow the judges and audience voters".

haiducii · Feb 11, 2019

Italy: Mahmood - Soldi

After a week full of music, Italy crowned the winner of their prestigious song contest 'Sanremo'. After all the votes were counted, 'Soldi' (English: Money) was announced as the winning song and Mahmood will perform it on behalf of Italy at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest.

Alessandro Mahmoud, aka Mahmood, was born in Milan in 1992 from an Italian mother and an Egyptian father. In 2016 he participated in the Newcomers Section of Sanremo with the song Dimentica. As a songwriter, Mahmood has written for Elodie, Michele Bravi and Marco Mengoni who represented Italy at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest.

As confirmed at the winner's press conference in Sanremo, Italy will participate in the Grand Final of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest on the 18th of May in Tel Aviv with the winner of the Festival di Sanremo 2019, Mahmood and his song Soldi. The song is predominantly in Italian, with one line in Arabic, making it the third time that a Eurovision song features the Arabic language after entries by Morocco in 1980 and Israel in 2009.

haiducii · Feb 11, 2019

France: Bilal Hassani - Roi

Bilal Hassani has won the final of 'Destination Eurovision', the French national selection for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest, with the song 'Roi' (English: King) and will represent France in the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv.

Bilal beat seven other acts during the final which was broadcast live from Paris. The grand final had the eight finalists perform a cover of a Eurovision song followed by their own song for the contest. As with the semi-finals, the winner was determined by a 50/50 mix of international jury and televote.

Bilal Hassani, born in 1999 in Paris of Moroccan origin, is a French singer and songwriter who made himself known through his videos and music on his YouTube channel, before participating in Destination Eurovision.

haiducii · Feb 11, 2019

Albania: Jonida Maliqi - Ktheju Tokës

Albania is, once again, the first country to present both artist and song for the Eurovision Song Contest. Jonida Maliqi won the Albanian national selection show Festivali i Këngës in December 2018 with the song Ktheju tokës (English: Return to the land), with music and lyrics by Eriona Rushiti.

Jonida Maliqi (born 1983) is an Albanian singer and television host. She is also known for portraying Juliet in the Albanian musical version of Romeo and Juliet. She hosted the fourth season of Dancing with the Stars Albania, and she also served as a judge on the fifth season of The Voice of Albania in 2016.

In an interview with Eurovision fansite Wiwibloggs, Maliqi revealed that the song was written "for Albanians, for immigrants, for all the people around the world". The lyrics deal with the topic of Albanian emigration, especially in relation to the Kosovo War.

haiducii · Feb 11, 2019

Australia: Kate Miller-Heidke - Zero Gravity

In the first-ever Australian televised national selection Eurovision - Australia Decides, broadcast from the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, Kate Miller-Heidke was chosen to represent her country in Tel Aviv.

Kate Miller-Heidke (born 1981) is an award-winning singer-songwriter who traverses the worlds of contemporary pop, folk and opera. She has released four studio albums in Australia, achieving multi-platinum status and appearing in the top 10 album and singles charts numerous times.

"Zero Gravity" has been called a pop-opera song. Miller-Heidke wrote the song following her experience with post-natal depression after the birth of her son, Ernie, and how she felt "weightless" as she recovered.

haiducii · Feb 11, 2019

Montenegro: D-Moll - Heaven

After topping the fan polls for several days, the group D-Moll managed to capture the hearts of the Montenegrin public as well.

On Saturday, the Montenegrin vocal group won the national selection 'Montevizija 2019' and will thus represent Montenegro at this year's Eurovision Song Contest with the song 'Heaven'.

Heaven, originally titled Ti (English: You), was composed by Dejan Božović and lyrics were written by Aleksandar Miličić.

haiducii · Feb 11, 2019

Czech Republic: Lake Malawi - Friend Of A Friend

The votes have been counted and the winner of the Czech national selection is... Lake Malawi! They will take to the stage in Israel and represent their country with the song 'Friend Of A Friend'.

Lake Malawi is a Czech indie pop band from Třinec formed in 2013. The name of the band is inspired by a Bon Iver song. The band consists of lead vocalist, guitarist, and keyboardist Albert Černý, bassist and keyboardist Jeroným Šubrt, and drummer Antonín Hrabal.

Their debut extended play We Are Making Love Again was released in 2015, followed by their debut studio album Surrounded by Light in 2017. Since the very beginning, Lake Malawi always aimed to make it outside of their home country Czech Republic and as a consequence performs in English.

haiducii · Feb 17, 2019

Croatia: Roko - The Dream

Through its popular tv format ‘Dora’, both the Croatian audience and jury decided that Roko will be its representative at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv.

Roko is set to perform his song ‘The Dream’ in the second half of the second Semi-Final on the 16th of May. 'The Dream' has been written by Jacques Houdek (Croatia's participant at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest), Andrea Ćurić and Charlie Mason (co-writer of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 winning song "Rise Like a Phoenix").

Roko Blažević was born in 2000 in the Dalmatian town of Split and has been raised in a very musical family. Next to singing, he plays the piano and the organ. Ever since, he has successfully competed in various talent shows. In July 2017, Roko won the Serbian reality-show "Pinkove Zvezdice" (The Stars of Pink). In December 2018, he won the second place in the Croatian reality-show "Zvijezde" (Stars).

haiducii · Feb 17, 2019

Latvia: Carousel - That Night

After two weeks of Semi-Finals and last night's 'Supernova' final, Latvia decided to send Carousel to the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv with the song 'That Night'. The winner was ultimately determined by televoters, a jury panel and the number of Spotify streams of each song.

The song was written by Sabine Žuga and Maris Vasilievsky, and produced by Aleksandr Volks. The song also features on their first album and marks Sabine's debut as song writer.

Sabine and Maris make up the indie pop band Carousel and have been together since 2015. "Performing and being inspired by the music of their favorite authors, the band is now realizing a dream of creating their own original music and working on their upcoming album," their official biography says.

haiducii · Feb 17, 2019

Estonia: Victor Crone - Storm

After two semi-finals and a thriller final, Victor Crone was chosen to represent Estonia at this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv with the song 'Storm'.

Victor Crone (born 31 January 1992) is a Swedish singer who has teamed up with Eesti Laul veterans Stig Rästa, Vallo Kikas and Fred Krieger to write and compose Storm.

No stranger to the stage, Victor also competed in the Swedish national selection Melodifestivalen in 2015 as a vocalist on the song Det Rår Vi Inte För by Behrang Miri.

haiducii · Feb 17, 2019

Slovenia: Zala Kralj & Gašper Šantl - Sebi

It was showtime in Slovenia last night as our national selection final 'EMA' took place in capital Ljubljana. The duo Zala Kralj & Gašper Šantl have been selected to represent the country in Tel Aviv in May with their song 'Sebi' (To Yourself).

Zala Kralj & Gašper Šantl is a Slovenian musical duo from Maribor consisting of vocalist Zala Kralj (19) and multi-instrumentalist Gašper Šantl (22). They began their journey in the summer of 2017 when they recorded their first joint song "Valovi" (Waves). Before their collaboration, both them were already involved in music; Zala playing covers and wrote her own songs, Gašper played the guitar and was involved in music production.

The lyrics of the chorus: Vedno se ne vidi zvezd (The stars are not always visible), Sam ostani sebi zvest (Stay true to yourself), Ne govori mi oprosti (Don't tell me to forgive you)...

I know most of you will say:"Boring as hell!" Some of you will say the melody is stolen from David Bowie's song ''This is not America''. Haters will say:"It’s the same thing for three minutes..."

But there are also ESC fans who like it, like Lukas from W1wibloggs: "This song is a masterpiece! Out of this world… so mystical and yet so touching… just takes you to another galaxy. Such a relief among those generic songs. Good job, Slovenia!"

Totalyl agree with Lukas! Good choice imho and congrats!

haiducii · Feb 19, 2019

Romania: Ester Peony - On A Sunday

In an exciting final, Ester Peony turned out to be the winner of this year’s ‘Selecţia Naţională’. And with it she has also won Romania’s ticket to Tel Aviv.

Ester will perform On a Sunday in the first half of the second Semi-Final on the 16th of May. It was written by Ioana Victoria Badea, while music was composed by Peony alongside Alexandru Șerbu.

Ester Alexandra Creţu, professionally known as Ester Peony, is a Romanian singer and songwriter. Her passion for music emerged during childhood when she lived with her family in Montréal, Canada.

gorgik9 · Feb 19, 2019

haiducii said:
It was showtime in Slovenia last night as our national selection final 'EMA' took place in capital Ljubljana. The duo Zala Kralj & Gašper Šantl have been selected to represent the country in Tel Aviv in May with their song 'Sebi' (To Yourself).

Zala Kralj & Gašper Šantl is a Slovenian musical duo from Maribor consisting of vocalist Zala Kralj (19) and multi-instrumentalist Gašper Šantl (22). They began their journey in the summer of 2017 when they recorded their first joint song "Valovi" (Waves). Before their collaboration, both them were already involved in music; Zala playing covers and wrote her own songs, Gašper played the guitar and was involved in music production.

The lyrics of the chorus: Vedno se ne vidi zvezd (The stars are not always visible), Sam ostani sebi zvest (Stay true to yourself), Ne govori mi oprosti (Don't tell me to forgive you)...

I know most of you will say:"Boring as hell!" Some of you will say the melody is stolen from David Bowie's song ''This is not America''. Haters will say:"It’s the same thing for three minutes..."

But there are also ESC fans who like it, like Lukas from W1wibloggs: "This song is a masterpiece! Out of this world… so mystical and yet so touching… just takes you to another galaxy. Such a relief among those generic songs. Good job, Slovenia!"

Totalyl agree with Lukas! Good choice imho and congrats!

I like it, and I fully understand why you like it :thumbs up::thumbs up::thumbs up:

portugal10 · Feb 23, 2019

I don't listen until all entries are chosen but so great to see this thread back for 2019!

haiducii · Feb 25, 2019

Lithuania: Jurijus - Run with the Lions

Forty-eight acts competed in the national selection show ''Eurovizijos atranka'' 2019 and after four heats and two semi-finals, eight acts were left to battle it out.

On Saturday night, Jurijus was crowned as winner of Lithuania’s national selection final and will thus represent the country in the second Semi-Final of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest on the 16th of May. Jurijus will compete with the song 'Run With The Lions'. He received twelve points from the professional jury, as well as from the viewers at home.

Jurijus Veklenko (born 1990, Klaipėda), now presenting himself as Jurijus, is already known to the Eurovision community. In 2013 he was a backing vocalist for the Lithuanian singer Andrius Pojavis, in 2015 he joined Vaidu Baumila and Monika Linkyte on stage for their performance.

haiducii · Feb 25, 2019

Hungary: Joci Pápai - Az én apám

Joci Pápai is the winner of 'A Dal 2019', Hungary's national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. After three heats, two semi-finals and Saturday's national final, the competition came to a rousing close when the Eurovision veteran was chosen to sing 'Az én Apám' in Tel Aviv.

József "Joci" Pápai (born 22 September 1981) is a Hungarian singer, voice actor, rapper and guitarist of Romani descent. He represented Hungary at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "Origo" finishing in 8th place.

Joci has been writing songs since the young age of four. For this year's entry, he wrote his song Az én Apám about his relationship with his father.

haiducii · Feb 25, 2019

Ukraine: MARUV – Siren song

Ukraine's national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, Vidbir, a ''hot'' competition in Kyiv, where the final took place, finished on Saturday night. Much of the show’s fire came from a political war of words. But the public thought otherwise. They cast over 167,000 unique votes and MARUV with her 'Siren Song' earned the most.

MARUV is a singer, songwriter and sound producer. In 2016, she was a semi-finalist of the Ukrainian national selection for Eurovision as part of The Pringlez band.

Ukrainian broadcaster UA

BC provides MARUV as the winner of the national selection with an agreement for consideration, specifying the terms of participation in the Eurovision Song Contest. The official announcement of the representative of Ukraine at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest will take place after signing the participation agreement.

After broadcaster UA

BC was unable to come to an agreement with the top 3 from their national selection for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest; MARUV, Freedom Jazz and KAZKA, they have unfortunately decided to withdraw from the competition this year.

haiducii · Feb 25, 2019

Denmark: Leonora - Love Is Forever

Denmark has spoken! Leonora will represent the country in the second Semi-Final of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest with the song 'Love Is Forever'. The song was written and composed by Lise Cabble, Melanie Wehbe and Emil Lei.

Leonora Colmor Jepsen was born in Hellerup, just north of Copenhagen, and is 20 years old. Since she was seven she has been active in ice skating, which has resulted several titles such as Denmark's Junior Champion. She also participated in the Nordic Championships and the World Championships for Juniors.

Today, Leonora no longer skates at the elite level, but remains active as ice skater and choreographer. Currently she is fully focussed on her other great passion; music.

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