Junior Eurovision winner Viki Gabor took to Instagram on the occasion of her 13th birthday yesterday to announce the release of her first album ‘Getaway (Into my imagination)’
Getaway
In her post Viki announced “Guys! Finally I can share with you this exciting news! I present you the cover of my debut album! I’m so excited!
“Getaway (Into My Imagination)” will be available everywhere on 4th of September! ”
The news comes shortly after the release of Viki’s latest single ‘Forever and a night’ , which will be on e of the tracks featured on the album.
Further to the recent announcement that the final of the Netherlands Junior Eurovision selection show ‘Junior Song Festival 2020’ would be held at the Ahoy arena in Rotterdam; the names of the songs that each artist will be perform , have now also been released.
Netherlands JSF Finalists
Four piece girl group (Jayda, Maud, Naomi and Dem) Unity will perform ‘Best Friends’
Boy band T- Square (Thimo, Tyrone, Teddy and Thijs) will perform ‘Count On Me
Jackie And Janae’s song is appropriately titled ‘It’s You And Me’
and young female solo singer Robin will perform ‘May (Along)’
The songs are set to be revealed next week on the Junior Song Festival YouTube page:
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.
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
After many years of speculation and in a surprise move, Germany has announced it will make its debut at this years Junior Eurovision show in Warsaw.
The show will be broadcast on the KIKA network; a dedicated children’s channel, in collaboration with NDR AND ZDF.
Levent Geiger, a finalist in last year’s Dein Song (Your Song); a long running children’s talent show, will compose the German entry. He will also be involved in the casting, and will accompany the young performer on every step along the way to the big night in Warsaw.
From August, the KIKA show ‘Kika Live’ will show regular updates on preparations for the contest.
The full announcement on the official Junior Eurovision website can be read here:
In a surprise announcement earlier today, it was revealed that the Netherlands Junior Eurovision selection show ‘Songfestival 2020’ will be held at the Rotterdam Ahoy arena.
Netherlands JSF Finalists
Details are still unclear as to whether an audience in the huge 16,500 capacity venue will be allowed to attend or what measures will be in place if they are.
The Arena was of course set to host Eurovision 2020; before it’s cancellation and is due to host Eurovision 2021, so perhaps the ‘Songfestival 2020’ will serve as a test event for how social distancing measure could be implemented if they are still required for the main Eurovision show in 2021.
Watch the announcement video with the participants below:
Georgia 1TV today announced that the Junior Eurovision selection show ‘Ranina’ will be returning to screens in the near future.
After initially announcing the artists taking part and a start date of late March, the show was put on hold as the Covid 19 pandemic locked down the country.
We look forward to Georgia once again kicking off the Junior Eurovision selection season when the show restarts in the coming weeks.
The confirmed artists are:
Top row left to right
Cecil Thurmanidze Female 10
Veronica Shamugia Female 12
Sandra Gadelia Female 9
Rati Gelovan Male 10
Gio Gogiashvili Male 8
Marita Khvedelidze Female 11
Nikoloz Reddit Male 10
TikTok; for those of you who don’t follow the latest social media trends, is a social media platform that allows users (mainly young) to upload, short, 15 second video clips.
With an estimated (up to) 500 million active user base, in recent years, it has become a phenomenon amongst teenagers and young adults.
One of the most popular type of uploads are ‘TikTok dances’ (Google it!) where users mime to, and perform co-ordinated simple dance routines to camera.
Perhaps then, it should come as no surprise that 3 of the current favourites for this years contest, have cleverly incorporated easily copied dance memes in their videos.
Should Iceland, Russia or Lithuania sweep the board at this years contest, perhaps going forward, the contest should consider reducing the 3 minute time limit to 15 seconds, with the compulsory inclusion of a ‘silly dance’.
Of course, simple choreographed dance routines have long been a part of Eurovision (Brotherhood of man have a lot to answer for here) and the contest is always evolving, but are we entering an era of Eurovision songs for the TicTok generation?
More details of the 10 contestants who will participate in the popular ‘Ranina’ show; which will select the Georgian artist to represent them at the 2020 Junior Eurovision song contest, were revealed today.
The confirmed artists are:
Top row left to right
Cecil Thurmanidze Female 10
Veronica Shamugia Female 12
Sandra Gadelia Female 9
Rati Gelovan Male 10
Gio Gogiashvili Male 8
Marita Khvedelidze Female 11
Nikoloz Reddit Male 10
The U.K’s entry for Eurovision 2020, James Newman with the song ‘My last breath’ was officially announced as the U.K entry on Radio 1 and 2 this morning.
After years of disappointing results by artists/songs selected via the dreadful Eurovision decides selection show; In September last year, the BBC announced that the 2020 entry would be internally selected in partnership with BMG.
After an initial flurry of excitement when fans scoured the BMG roster of artists to speculate on who could possibly be chosen (Kylie Minogue’s name came up a few times) things inevitably went silent until last week, Graham Norton announced the U.K entry would be revealed Thursday.
So, have the BBC finally managed to get it right?
The writing credentials are good, Ed Drewett, Adam Argyle and Iain James have between them written hits for the likes of Little mix and One direction and Iain James also has Eurovision connections, having been a co-writer of “Running Scared” by Ell & Nikki, which won Eurovision 2011 for Azerbaijan.
Newman himself, although not an established solo artist, does have a good musical pedigree, particularly with his impressive list of song writing credits.
The song itself opens with a steady drum beat and vocal that has hints of Azerbaijan’s 2019 entry Chingiz “Truth” but quickly moves into the contemporary pop realm.
Sophia Ivanko who represented Ukraine at this years Junior Eurovision song contest in Poland with her delightful song The Spirit Of Music, will be one of the guests during the Ukraine Eurovision selection show Vidbir (Semi final 2), which will take place this Saturday (Feb 15th)
PHOTO: UA:PBC
Sophia will perform a new interpretation of The Spirit Of Music and the whole show will be streamed live on YouTube:
