GPB the Georgian national broadcaster has today announced that Mariko Ebralidze & The Shin will represent Georgia at Eurovision 2014.
It was revealed that Mariko and the band will be off to Stuttgart in Germany to record the song in the next couple of weeks. While the music video will be recorded in Georgia and directed by Kakha Bukhrashvili.
The Shin are made up of Zaza Miminoshvili (guitars, panduri, songs), Zurab J. Gagnidze (bass, vocals, songs), Aleksandre Chumburidze (dance, doli) and Mamuka Gaganidze (vocals, percussion, songs). The Shin formed in 1998 in Germany, where Zaza Miminoshvili and Zurab Gagnidze have been living since 1994. Mamuka Gaganidze joined the band in 2002. They are known for producing music for various Georgian theaters, TV shows.While Mariko is a soloist who specialises in jazz and pop songs with an ethnic feel. She has performed with a number of bands in Georgia and has taken part in different musical projects.
Source: Eurovision-georgia.ge
