Jeangu Macrooy has been internally selected by AVROTROS to represent the home team, the Netherlands, at the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam in
Jeangu was born in Suriname and moved to the Netherlands in 2014. He is a popular artist in his new homeland.
The song for Jeangu will be presented in the coming weeks.
You can see the music video for one of Jeangu’s hit songs, Dance With Me, below.
Source: Eurovision.tv; ESC Covers
Poland will use the tv talent show Szansa na Sukces to select their 2020 Eurovision Song Contest act. Juries will decide in the first three heats who will advance each week. In the final the public will decide by SMS voting who will sing for Poland in the Netherlands in May.
Invitations are now out to Polish composers only to submit songs.
There will be three heats starting on Sunday 2 February. The big final will take place on 23 February.
It should be an interesting selection method as this type of show helped Poland to another victory at the 2019 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. It is time for Poland to do well again at Eurovision! Let us see.
Source: TVP
Arilena Ara was crowned as the winner of the Festival i Këngës 58 national selection with Shaj (Shout) and will represent Albania at the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam.
Shaj is composed by Darko Dimitrov, Lazar Cvetkovski and Lindon Berisha. Darko has composed many successful songs for Eurovision and other popular festivals and for many popular artists from North Macedonia, Albania and other Balkan countries. He wrote Ninanajna for Elena Risteska (2006 FYR Macedonia) and Pred da se razdeni by Esma & Vlatko (2013 FYR Macedonia) and To The Sky by Tijana Dapčević (2014 FYR Macedonia). He has also had songs in the Junior Eurovision including the classy Doma by Marija Spasovska for FYR Macedonia 2018). Darko has also worked with Albanian Eurovision acts like Kejsi Tola (2009) and Juliana Pasha (2010).
Arilena Ara rose to stardom after winning the X Factor in Albania in 2013. She is from Shkodra. Arilena has released several successful singles including Aeroplan, Vegim and Business Class. Arilena also had a hit in Romania entitled Nëntori.
Arilena also recently participated in a dance show called ‘Dance With Me’. Her dance partner was Labi, who is an Albanian journalist from Kosovo.
You can see Arilena perform Shaj and Nëntori below.
Source: ESC Covers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOXsVHMTbNU
You will see in the photo a car in the Netherlands with the Eurovision 2020 slogan – Open Up and Ruslana (winner of the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest for Ukraine).
ESC Covers wonders will we see more cars with Eurovision legends on them in Rotterdam.
Source: ESC Covers
Vincent Bueno has been selected internally by the local broadcaster, ORF, to represent Austria at the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest.
Vincent will sing the reportedly upbeat song, Alive, in Rotterdam in May. The song will be revealed in March of 2020.
Vincent is an Austrian born Filipino singer, who is based both in Austria and Philippines. He won the music talent show Musical! Die Show in Austria in 2008.
You can see one of Vincent’s most popular music videos, Into You, below.
Source: ESC Covers; Eurovision.tv
Sandro Nicolas has been chosen internally by the broadcaster CyBC to represent Cyprus at the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam next May.
Sandro was born in Germany and has an American father and Greek mother. He was a popular contestant on The Voice Of Germany.
Sandro also represented USA at the New Wave festival in Russia earlier this year.
The song for Sandro will be revealed in the coming months.
You can see Sandro perform at the New Wave below.
Source: ESC Covers
The slogan for the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands is ‘Open Up’.
Sietse Bakker, the Executive Producer of the Eurovision in 2020, advised “The slogan ‘Open Up’ is intentionally incomplete: Open up to each other. Open up to music. Open up to Rotterdam. Open up to… whatever you choose! Feel the freedom to complete the slogan in your own way. That way we get to know each other better.”
Source: Eurovision.tv
Hooverphonic are the first act to be announced for the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Rotterdam, Netherlands in May next year. They will represent Belgium with a song to be announced at a later date.
The band consist of Alex Callier, Raymond Geerts and Luka Cruysberghs.
Let us check out some of Hooverphonic’s music videos. You can see them with their latest track Horrible Person, Badaboum from 2015 and Romantic from 2018.
Source: ESC Covers; Eurovision.tv
In an announcement made earlier today, the BBC confirmed the UK’s participation in Eurovision 2020 and also gave details of a new selection process for the song and artist.
The UK public will no longer have the opportunity to vote on their preferred choices, as the BBC has dropped the ‘You Decide’ show format which has been used to select the UK entry for Eurovision since 2016 and will instead move back to internal selection.
In a surprise move however, the whole process will be done in collaboration with the music company BMG and therefore it is very likely that both the songwriters and artist will be selected from the labels own extensive roster of artists.
Read the full story here on the BBC website: