The host country Bulgaria went all out with the national final for Junior Eurovision this year, holding six heats and four semi-finals, all leading to the final, where one out of twelve acts would be the eventual winner of the contest. The twelve acts were: Gabriela Yordanova Ivan Stoyanov Radko Petkov Gergana Todorova Simona Ivanova…
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Only days ago, the Belarussian national final took place to decide which of 10 acts would represent Belarus this year. The final took place in Minsk, at the studios of the broadcaster BTRC, and similar to their ‘senior’ contest, a jury and televoting decided the winner. Ruslan Aslanov won both the jury vote, and the…
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In early July, Malta held their national final to find their participant for Junior Eurovision later on this year. The competition was held at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in the capital Valletta. The competition had 20 participants, who each chose a cover song to perform on the night. The winner, Destiny Chukunyere performed the song…
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True to form, Albania had their national final early on in the season – in fact, only days after the Grand Final of Eurovision. Their broadcaster TVSH held a junior version of Festivali I Kenges, where 14 acts took to the stage to decide who would be the nation’s second participant in Junior Eurovision this…
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It’s that time of year where we hop onto the Junior Eurovision train, and although we are a bit behind for 2015 (you can read why here) we are dedicated to bring you the news from the junior contest as well, especially while regular adult Eurovision is a bit slow. Before recapping on the news…
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As some of you may know, things slowed right down on Eurovision Union, and that’s because I took time out for a well-deserved vacation! Well, it wasn’t that simple, I spent half of that time studying in a gorgeous Italian city called Udine. While I was there, I got a chance to listen to what…
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This week, we’re going to take a closer look at Georgia. For this series, we take the last 10 entries from the country, in this case, Georgia, however, since they only debuted back in 2007, and did not participate in 2009, we only have 8 entries! On the positive side, this means we can look…
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For a country which produces so much good music, why must then send such strange music to Eurovision. I really thought that the UK were on the right track with Molly last year, the poor girl was definitely ripped off! This year, they have chosen a duo, Electro Velvet, who are singing Still In Love…
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Finally, another song in native language! Huge respect goes to Spain, who are singing their song Amanecer in Spanish. Edurne is the singer, and before the song was released, I listened to some of her other songs and I wasn’t too impressed. Nevertheless, I waited until the song came out to give it a fair…
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Italy is one of those countries who, since their return, really haven’t put a foot wrong. Their acts have been consistently good (maybe minus Emma’s vocals last year, a bit of a disaster) and this year is no exception. Grande Amore is a killer of a song. So powerful and so captivating. The Italian language…
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