Lithuania have started the road to Stockholm with the first of their Eurovision national selection shows. Eight acts performed and three were eliminated in the first week.
The acts and songs in the first show –
Alice Way – Hero
Dovydas Petrošius – Starlight
Behind The Moon – Did It All
Erica Jeniings – Leading Me Home
Elena Jurgaitytė – I Won‘t Come Back
Vlad Max – Don‘t Wanna Let It Go
Petunija – Tomorrow
Donny Montell – I‘ve Been Waiting for This Night
An expert national and international jury voted in the first phase. The acts that were eliminated were –
Dovydas Petrošius,
Elena Jurgaitytė
Vlad Max
The first show was won by Donny Montell, the Lithuanian Eurovision representative in 2012 in Baku where he sang Love Is Blind.
Latvia kicked off their Eurovision 2015 season yesterday with the first round of the Supernova selection to decide their song for Vienna. 10 acts competed and four would qualify for the next round. An expert jury would decide on two songs to go forward and televoting another two.
The expert jury were Ieva Kerēvica, Kaspars Roga (from Brainstorm ESC 2000 Latvia), singer Don and Guntars Račs. The 10 acts competing were –
Katrina Cīrule – Bass
Lana Frančeska – Lions
Atis Ieviņš – Catfish
Milenin & Kamilla – Colours Of Love
Antra Stafecka – It’s The Night
Framest – Ziemā
Linda Ķaukule – Save Our Love
MNTHA – Nefelibata
Rihards Saule – Life Lines
ElektroFolk – Sundance
The acts selected by the jury were Antra Stafecka and Framest. Televoting sent MNTHA and ElectroFolk through.
