After a very long journey from Kyiv to Liverpool, we’re delighted to welcome TVORCHI  (who is Jeffery and Andrii) to the Eurovision stage for the first time, hoping to repeat the success of Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra and retain the Eurovision title for another year. Heart of Steel is a song about bravery, and the unbreakable will which makes you who you really are.

Eurovision.tv reports that R&B is one of the few musical genres we haven’t seen at Eurovision this year, and this song is definitely one of the coolest and most contemporary on this year’s playlist. TVORCHI use the lighting and LED wall to powerful effect, including four boxes on stage which provide an LED backdrop to their two black-clad dancers. There are a lot of elements to the composition that feel almost orchestral – soaring strings, church organ-style keyboard effects, thumping bass, Jeffery’s effortless vocals – it all comes together on stage to create three very polished minutes of pure drama. Pyro on the final run-through, maybe? Pity you can’t really appreciate the detail of their costumes on stage.

Stephan Herholdt designed the promo CD single of the Ukrainian entry for ESC Covers and here is it.