Today from 11:00 CET Ukraine will select their participant for Junior Eurovision 2016, live from the Ukrainian Capital, Kyiv.
A total of 12 singers will be competing in the selection today in Kyiv, all hoping they will represent Ukraine in Malta this November. The winner of the selection will be decided by the Ukrainian public and a jury. The five member jury will have a 50% say in the outcome of the Junior Eurovision selection final in Ukraine this Saturday. The jury members are as follows:
- Mariya Burmaka – Head of the Jury – singer, composer and songwriter, has written over 150 songs.
- Victoria Romanova – Deputy Director General of NTU and the Head of Delegation for Ukraine at the Eurovision and Junior Eurovision Song Contests.
- Oleksandr Ksenofontov – Music producer and lyricist, he wrote the lyrics to Ukraine’s winning Eurovision entry in 2004 “Wild Dances”.
- Vadym Lysytsya – Music Producer
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Valentyn Koval – CEO of the television channels M1 and M2.
The running order for the final is as follows:
- Band «VoiceLand» – “Vidchyny svoie sertse” (Open your heart)
- Diana Sapozhko – “Tvii svit” (Your world)
- Denys Rodin – “Ukraina – mama moia” (Ukraine – my mother)
- Iuliia Radchuk – “Moia zoria” (My star)
- Denys Dovirak & Natalia Sadova – “Ia chekaiu svoho lysta” (I am waiting for my letter)
- Alisa Panchuk – “Pyi svoi mrii” (Drink your dreams)
- Polina Dashkova, – “Do Boha” (To the Lord)
- Anastasiia Bahinska – “Mii svit” (My world)
- Sofiia Lozina – “Uhorskyi tanok” (Hungarian dance)
- Sofiia Rol – “Planet craves for love”
- Andrii Boiko, – “Open your heart”
- Sofiia Shkidchenko, – “Dolce vita”
A number of special guests will be performing as part of the final including Svetlana Tarabova (2016 Eurovision selection participant) and Anna Trincher (Junior Eurovision 2015 participant). Also performing will be the groups KADNAY and Vivienne Mort.
You can watch the final of the Ukrainian selection live on the official channel of NTU. Who do you think will follow in the steps of Anna Trincher?
Who knows, maybe Ukraine could be the first country ever to win Eurovision and Junior Eurovision in the same year, if they pick the right song. 😀
Just one problem: if Ukraine wins JESC this year, then whatever country comes in second or third would have to host next year, now that the adult’s ESC chose its host city (Kiev). So if Ukraine wants to host next year’s JESC, it’ll have to be in another city, such as Odessa, Lviv, or Dnipro.
I would hope for Odessa or Lviv if they won, but I’m sure Kiev could host it too.
I want Denis Rodin to win but now it’s almost impossible… It’s probably gonna be either Andriy or Anastasiya.
Where can I watch the final? I don’t know Ukrainian so I don’t understand the titles of the videos. 🙁
Okay, I found it. 🙂