Daneliya Tuleshova who competed for Kazakhstan in the 2018 Junior Eurovision with ‘Òzińe Sen’ (Sieze the time) is continuing her quest for American stardom with a successful run on America’s Got Talent.
Daneliya previously appeared on another American TV talent show ‘Worlds best’ where; after wowing audiences with her audition rendition of ‘Rise up’ was eventually eliminated at the semi final stage.
Determined to pursue her American dream Daneliya has this year been participating on one of the biggest talent shows in the World ‘America’s got talent’
Daneliya’s first audition, where she performed “Tears of Gold” by Faouzia saw her progress to the later stages of the competition and earlier this week Daniliya made it through her quarter final with a cover of Harry Styles ‘Sign of the times’
You can watch both performances below and we’ll keep you updated as the competition progresses to the semi final stages.
Almost one year on from her Victory at Junior Eurovision 2019, Viki Gabor today added to her already impressive repertoire with the release of a new single ‘Not Gonna Get It’
Available now on all major streaming platforms, the uptempo dance track is accompanied by a (very) colorful video which features, a ‘Back to the future’ Delorian car sporting fluffy shocking pink seat covers!
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!)
Maria Danilova will be hoping to make it to the final with her song “Сяйво” (Shine)
The third hopeful is Karina Zayets with her song “жива” (Alive)
Song 4 – Julia Karimi – ‘People’
A great initial selection from Ukraine – We will keep you updated as more are released.
Kazakhstan has announced the selection procedure for Junior Eurovision 2020 which will see them will revert to public vote and a televised National live final.
Following the initial application stage, a jury will select 30 participants who will be whittled down to a final 12 by an online public vote on the Khabar TV website.
The live national final will take place on Sep 26th, though at this time; according to the organisers ‘the format and venue of the final depends on the epidemiological situation’
Yerzhan Maksim
2020 be the third time Kazakhstan has competed at Junior Eurovision having made its debut in 2018 with Daneliya Tuleshova and finishing in 2nd spot in 2019 with Yerzhan Maksim.
Readers wishing to follow the selection may do so at: https://jevision.khabar.kz/kz/ where from 24 to 31 August 2020 the online voting to select the 12 participants of the final stage will take place.
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:
Despite confirming in January that the country would be participate in this years contest, TG4 have now announced that Ireland will sadly be withdrawing from Junior Eurovision 2020.
The uncertain travel situation due to Covid 19 was cited as the reason for the withdrawal along with the hope that Ireland would return in 2021.
Several former recent Junior Eurovision stars have been busy lately with a slew of new releases.
2018 contestants Efi Gjika and Darina Krasnovetska have both recently released cover versions of popular songs:
Aug 1st saw Efi Gjika drop a slick new video for her fun cover of Ava Max ‘Salt’ on her YouTube channel and a week earlier Darina Krasnovetska showcased her hugely impressive vocal talents with a cover of the Lady Gaga/Bradley Walsh song ‘Shallow’
2019 contestant Melanie has also been busy with the release of her new song ‘Grita Conmigo’
Also from 2019, Sophia Ivanko (Sophy Ivy), followed up the release of her impressive debut album with a live stream performance of the whole album.
ukraUkThis weekend saw the release of Sophia Ivanko’s first album C.F. on all major digital streaming services.
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.
After the release of the 4 songs competing to represent Netherlands at this years Junior Eurovision in Warsaw in November, some controversy surrounding the T Square entry ‘Count on Me’ has emerged.
Several fans noted in comments that the track sounded very much like Korean band BTS ‘Boy with luv’, some even claiming plagiarism.
The organisers have since issued a release stating ‘we’ve decided to investigate the matter’ so expect more news in the coming days/weeks.
You can listen to both songs and judge for yourself here:
Common Song
In other related news, today saw the release of the shows common song which will be performed by all 10 of the competing artists – ‘All we need is music’
Junior song festival Netherlands have revealed the songs in the running to represent the country at this years Junior Eurovision Song contest, due to take place in Warsaw, Poland in November.
The Dutch ‘Junior Song Festival 2020’ will take place at the Ahoy arena on Sep 26th, most likely without an audience in attendance.
The 4 artists and songs competing will be:
Thijs, Teddy, Thimo and Tyrone – T-SQUARE – ‘Count on me’
