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.
Inis Neziri has had a big success representing Albania at the 2018 Tra La La music festival in Ohrid, FYR Macedonia. She won the silver medal runner up prize.
Inis performed two songs. One of them was Piedestal. This is the classic ballad that she performed, and impressed so many people with, at the Festivalii Këngës #56. She also sang the soul classic It’s A Man’s Man’s World.
Soon Inis will also be representing Albania at the prestigious Golden Stag festival in Romania. ESC Covers will bring you more about this soon.
Check out Inis and her first performance of Piedestal in Ohrid below. Congratulations to Inis on her success.
Inis Neziri will represent Albania at the 19th International Music Festival “Tra La La” held in Ohrid, FYR Macedonia from 14 August.
Inis will perform her popular song Piedestal from the Festivali i Këngës 56 national selection for Eurovision in Albania. She will also perform It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World sung by James Brown and many famous soulsingers such as Christina Aguilera.
The incredibly talented Inis has a very soulful voice with such power and emotion. I am sure we will see and hear a lot more of Inis in the future.
In the meantime check out a performance of Inis singing Homeless by Leona Lewis from the TV Klan show in Albania.
Inis Neziri recently impressed many with her performance in the Festivali i Këngës 56 national selection in Albania. She performed the beautiful ballad Piedestal and finished in the top three.
Inis has covered the 2015 Russia Eurovision Song Contest by Polina Gagarina, A Million Voices. Again we hear a sample of the powerful and clear vocals of Inis.
Inis Neziri is a very promising young singer from Albania. This week she will participate in the Festivali i Këngës 56 festival and will be hoping to represent her country at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Portugal with her song Piedestal (Pedestal).
Piedestal is a beautiful ballad with strings and a strong melody and it is composed by Gridi Kraja and Florian Zyka. I think a lot of Eurovision fans will like this hypnotic and powerful pop ballad song.
Inis has been singing since she was very young and taking part in competitions and singing on tv and also making cover songs to publish on YouTube. She has a very powerful and clear tone to her vocals.
You can see Inis sing Piedestal below as well as doing a cover of Bang Bang by Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj below.
