The 2019 Destination Eurovision national selection began in France with the first of two semi-finals. Nine acts participated with four acts qualifying for the final after a combination of televoting and international jury votes.
The following acts have made it to the final –
Aysat – Comme une grande
Bilal Hassani – Roi
Chimène Badi – Là-haut
Silvàn Areg – Le Petit Nicolas
The five acts who missed out on the final were –
Naestro – Le brasier
Battista Acquaviva – Passio
Florina – In The Shadow
Lautner – J’ai pas le temps
Mazy – Oulala
Bilal Hassani was the overall winner of semi-final one. You can see the performance below.
The X Factor Malta live shows began yesterday with 12 acts taking to the stage. Unfortunately, we had to say goodbye to two of those acts. Franklin Calleja (from the Overs category) and Kayati (from the Groups) were eliminated.
The 10 acts remaining are –
4th Line
Ben Purplle
Kelsey Bellante
Luke Chappell
Michela Pace
Nicole Frendo
Norbert Bondin
Owen Luellen
Petra
Xtreme
There will be three more live shows to determine the winning act and who will represent Malta at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Israel in May.
Let us see the 10 remaining acts in action.
Let us not forget the performances of Kayati and Franklin also –
Tomorrow begins the live finals of the X Factor Malta. Now we come to the exciting category of the Groups. This is a very interesting line up and will be really interesting to the see the girls perform in the live shows –
The 10 songs that will compete in the final of the Eurovision Gala of Operación Triunfo in Spain have been announced –
María – Muérdeme – Public Vote Qualifier
Noelia – Hoy vuelvo a reír otra vez – Public Vote Qualifier
Natalia – La clave – Public Vote Qualifier
Famous – No puedo más
Miki – La venda
Marilia – Todo bien
Natalia & Miki – Nadie se salva
Sabela – Hoy soñaré
Julia – Qué quieres que haga
Carlos – Se te nota
For 2019 any of the 16 selected Operación Triunfo finalists could have been picked to sing a song. There was originally 17 songs. The top three automatically voted for the by the public online voting made it to the final. The broadcaster TVE selected the other seven.
Famous was the overall winner of the 2018 edition of Operación Triunfo.
