The Cerbul de Aur 2018 festival (Golden Stag) returned in Romania and many acts with some Eurovision connections took part.
Inis Neziri stood out with an outstanding performance. She is representing Albania at the festival and her powerful vocals took centre stage as she performed the first of her two songs in the competition in the Romanian language Dau viata mea pentru o iubire (Give my life for love) by Monica Anghel (who won the Golden Stag festival in 1996 and represented Romania at the 2002 Eurovision Song Contest with Marcel Pavel with Tell Me Why.
Inis gave everything on stage, where she performed magnificently Dau viata mea pentru o iubire with the help of a full orchestra. The song that she will sing in the next phase of the competition will be Piedestal from the Festivali i Këngës #56 (Albanian national selection for the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest).
The countries and the acts taking part in the festival are –
- Albania: Inis Nezeri
- Armenia: Amaliya Margaryan
- Belgium: Olivier Kaye
- Cyprus: John Karayiannis
- France: Kelly-Joyce Bale
- Ireland: Ryan O’Shaughnessy
- Israel: Omer Netzer
- Italy: Damiano Borgi, Tiziana Camelin
- Kazakhstan: Dinara Kairova
- FYR Macedonia: Antonia Gigovska
- United Kingdom: Karl William Lund
- Moldova: Lidia Isac
- Romania: Dora Gaitanovici, Ovidiu Anton, Raluca Blejusca
- San Marino: Sebastian Schmidt
- Spain: Jorge Gonzalez
You can see the show at the link below. The performance by Inis is at 42:54 in to the show.
Source: ESC Covers; TVR