GPB Announces National Selection for 2017
Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) has launched national selection to find the Georgian representative for the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest.
Professional singers including solo artists and groups from across Georgia can take part in the national contest. Artists have until 7th December to send GBP their prospective entries as well as a photograph and CV.
The winner in the national final will represent Georgia at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. Cyprus has become the first country to announce its act for the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest! Hovig will take to the stage in Kyiv with a song written by esteemed Swedish composer Thomas G:son! Hovig, who is a Cypriot performer of Armenian origin, was selected internally by Cypriot broadcaster, CyBC, which also confirmed its participation in the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. Hovig is 27 years old and participated in X
Professional singers including solo artists and groups from across Georgia can take part in the national contest. Artists have until 7th December to send GBP their prospective entries as well as a photograph and CV.
The winner in the national final will represent Georgia at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. Cyprus has become the first country to announce its act for the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest! Hovig will take to the stage in Kyiv with a song written by esteemed Swedish composer Thomas G:son! Hovig, who is a Cypriot performer of Armenian origin, was selected internally by Cypriot broadcaster, CyBC, which also confirmed its participation in the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. Hovig is 27 years old and participated in X
Factor Greece in 2009, the same year that Evi Adamou, Cyprus' representative in Eurovision 2012, took part.
Last year Minus One represented Cyprus in Stockholm with the song Alter Ego, which qualified for the final, and was also written by Thomas G:son. The composer has been responsible for several Eurovision Song Contest entries including Euphoria, Loreen's winning song for Sweden in 2012. He has also composed entries for Georgia, Spain and Denmark as well as two Swedish entries for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.
Hovig's song for the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest will be released at a later date. He participated in the Cypriot national selection in both 2010 and 2015. The singer recorded a special video announcing his participation, check it out below!
Girl group O'G3NE will represent the Netherlands at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest, broadcaster AVROTROS has announced. Although the timing of the announcement came as a surprise, Dutch media have already been speculating about the group's participation since summer.
The three sisters - Lisa (22) and twins Amy and Shelly Vol (21) - are not entirely new to the Eurovision world; in 2007 they represented the Netherlands at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest with Adem In, Adem Uit (Breath In, Breath Out), finishing 11th out of 17. A lot has happened in ten years time - they won The Voice of Holland in 2014 and had several chart successes."We are looking forward so much to once again represent our country. This is a new highlight in our career and we are going to do everything we can to make our country proud," Lisa, Amy & Shelly said. In the following months, O'G3NE and their team will work on their song and act for Kyiv. Their song is expected to be revealed in early 2017. Meanwhile, enjoy their biggest hit so far, Magic.
Armenia's public broadcaster AMPTV has launched an ambitious search for its entry to the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. The act for Kyiv will be chosen in a series of shows called
Դեպի եվրատեսիլ (Depi Evratesil, or 'To Eurovision'). Viewers can look forward to three months of TV shows, including auditions, comments by previous Eurovision representatives and professional juries.
The auditions, to choose the candidates for the live shows took place in September. From October to December viewers will be able to watch Depi Evratesil live on the First Channel of AMPTV. More information about Depi Evratesilwill be available soon. Be sure to follow the official Armenian Eurovision website and Facebook page to get the latest news on the juries, the structure of the show and everything else you need to know.
The Spanish broadcaster, TVE, has already launched the process to choose their entry and performer for the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest to be held next May in Kyiv. Like in the 2016 selection, it will feature a group of young professional artists chosen internally, but this time they will be joined by one more candidate to be selected through their website. The show will be broadcast in February 2017 under the name Objetivo Eurovisiónwhere both an expert jury and the public votes will decide who will be the Spanish representative travelling to Ukraine.
During the casting sessions next month, prospective singers will perform in front of the camera ahead of the selection process. More information about the selection, including how to enter, can be found on the official website as well as eurovision.de.
To select the entry for the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest, German public broadcaster ARD will go back to the mode that gave the country its best results and its most recent winner: A talent show featuring five young and promising singers, performing songs commissioned from globally successful producers.
The German national selection for the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest will take place on Thursday 9th February 2017. The three-hour show will feature a jury panel comprising three of Germany's most popular musicians: Tim Bendzko, Florian Silbereisen, and Lena, Germany's most recent Eurovision winner. Germany's representative in Kyiv will be chosen solely by the TV viewers through televoting and the official Eurovision app.
You can find out more about the format for the 2017 selection in Germany here.
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