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Lily Mai Duncan impresses in the Welsh Factor

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LIly @Welsh Factor (WF)

Lily Mai Duncan impressed many with her performances in the 2018 Chwilio am Seren national selection for Junior Eurovision in Wales. Lily is now participating in the Welsh Factor competition and is establishing more respect and admiration for her powerful vocals.

Welsh Factor is an established competition and is organised by the GTMP Entertainment Group, and they have a good history of training and mentoring artists for the future.

You will see below Lily performing She Used To Be Mine by Sara Bareilles which she sings beautifully.

Also below you can see Lily sing Berta (the song that eventually became Perta and was performed by Manw at the 2018 Junior Eurovision) in the final of the 2018 Chwilio am Seren.

Source: ESC Covers

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Former Junior Eurovision national finalists Gracie-Jayne and Erik shine on The Voice Kids UK

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Two former Junior Eurovision national selection finalists made memorable appearances on The Voice Kids UK this weekend.

Gracie-Jayne took part in the 2018 Chwilio am Seren selection in Wales and impressed many with her performances including an amazing Welsh language version of You’re My World my Cilla Black. In The Voice Kids, Gracie-Jayne sang Golden Slumbers, a song by the Beatles, but more well known recently by Jennifer Hudson from the ‘Sing’ movie soundtrack. Three of the judges turned their chairs for Gracie-Jayne’s performance. Gracie-Jayne chose Pixie Lott to be her mentor going forward in the competition.

Erik Antonyan participated in the 2018 Depi Mankakan Evratesil national selection in Armenia, Ari Pari. Erik is now living in London in England. In The Voice Kids, Erik gave a rousing performance of Saturday Night by Whigfield and the got the audience enthusiastic and dancing and they gave him a lot of applause. Unfortunately, none of the judges turned around but they gave Erik a lot of praise and said he has a big future.

You can see the performance by Gracie-Jayne and Erik below.

Source: ESC Covers; ITV

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Lily Duncan performed National Anthem at Jonah Lomu Legacy rugby match

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Lily Duncan {copyright: Miss Tia Sandry/facebook.com}

Lily Duncan recently made it all the way to the grand final of the 2018 Chwilio am Seren national selection for Wales for the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest.  Lily had the great honour of singing the National Anthem at a special rugby match in respect of the Jonah Lomu Legacy.

The Welsh rugby union football club, Aberavon, made a come back for the special game. Jonah Lomu was a New Zealand All Black rugby great who sadly passed away in 2015. Jonah went to the Aberavon Naval club (who no longer exist) to host a training session later played a game that raised a lot of money for charity. The players wanted to raise money for funds for the Jonah Lomu Legacy.

There was lots of entertainment for the public besides the rugby with singing and dancing and a firework display. It took place at Harlequin Road, Port Talbot SA12 6uP, Wales.

Lily did a wonderful interpretation of the National Anthem.

Lily is a rising star with a strong and powerful voice and she impressed many with her journey on Chwilio am Seren. Her version of the 2014 Eurovision winning song, Rise Like A Phoenix, in the Welsh language was a particular highlight.

You can see her version of the Wales 2018 Junior Eurovision song Berta and also Rise Like A Phoenix below. Manw will represent Wales with Berta later this month in Minsk, Belarus.

Source: ESC Covers

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Watch Lily perform ‘Rise Like A Phoenix’ in the Welsh language

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Lily was recently one of the super finalists in the 2018 Chwilio am Seren national selection for Wales for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

Lily impressed many with her powerful voice and she got to perform live to an audience at The Quadrant Shopping Mall in Swansea. She gave an excellent performance of the 2014 Eurovision winning song by Conchita Wurst, Rise Like A Phoenix. Lily performed the song in the Welsh language. It was a charming and emotional stage presentation.

In the final of the Chwilio am Seren Lily sang a cover of Adre by Caryl Parry Jones. After a regional jury vote Lily was one of three super finalists who got to give their interpretation of the Wales Junior Eurovision song, Berta.

Eventually, Manw was crowned as the winner of the Chwilio am Seren and will represent Wales in Minsk, Belarus in November.

However, I am sure we will be hearing more of Lily in the future. In the meantime check out her performances of Rise Like A Phoenix, Berta and Adre.

Source: ESC Covers; S4C

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Wales: Take a look at the finalists of 2018 Chwilio am Seren (JESC national selection)

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Over the last few weeks viewers on the tv channel, S4C, have been searching for potential stars to represent Wales for the first time at the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The contestants have been narrowed down gradually and last week we saw 12 young singers take to a stage in the Quadrant Shopping Centre in Swansea. This was to give the kids a taste of performing to the public.

Six singers were selected for the grand final of the 2018 Chwilio am Seren national selection to be broadcast on Tuesday 9 October in Llandudno in Wales.

Let us take a look at the finalists and their performances (all in the Welsh language and including a version of the winning ESC song of 2014 by Conchita Wurst – Rise Like A Phoenix) in Swansea –

Source: ESC Covers – photos@S4C

Gracie-Jane – You’re My World 

Lauren Mia – The Voice Within

Manw – Ysbryd Enisien

Misha – Alys Williams bach

Ella – And I Am Telling You

Lily – Rise Like A Phoenix