Tonight Georgia and Belarus will select their participants for the 62nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest which is being held in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Belarus and Georgia will become the second and third countries respectively to select their songs for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 tonight. Georgia is holding their first televised selection process since 2015, while Belarus are looking for a singer to take them back to the Eurovision final for the first time since 2014.
Georgia – National Final 2017 – 17:00 CET
A total of 25 artists will be taking to the stage tonight in Tbilisi, all hoping they will represent Georgia at Eurovision 2017 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Tonight’s show comes live from the Philharmonic Hall in the Georgian Capital, in a 3 hour Eurovision delight. This years Georgian selection process is the largest Eurovision selection the country has ever held in their 10 year history in the contest.
WATCH THE SELECTION LIVE FROM 20:00 CET – HERE
The winner of the Georgian selection tonight will be decided by 60% international jury voting and 40% public voting. The members of the international jury have not been publicly announced as of 23:00 CET on January 19.
The running order is as follows:
- Giorgi Chikovani – Make it Right
- Brandon Stone & Eteri Beriashvili – Heyo Song
- Rati Durglishvili – Why
- Andria Gvelesiani – Revolutionise
- Alisa Danelia – We Are Eternity
- Nutsa Buzaladze – White Horses Run
- Maliibu – We Live Once
- Group EOS – Urban Signs
- Dima Kobeshavidze – Scream
- Trio Mandili – “Me da Shen” (You and Me)
- Tako Gachechiladze – Keep the Faith
- Nino Basharuli – Lileo
- Elene Mikiashvili – Fighter
- MISHO – Magic
- Mariko Lejava – Light it Up
- The Mins – Crime
- Sparkle – On The Top
- Tornike Kipiani – You Are My Sunshine
- Temo Sajaia – All The Same
- Sabina Chantouria – Stranger
- Mariam Chachkhiani – Fly
- Group Asea Sool – Nature
- Nanuka Giorgobiani – Let The Sunshine In
- Oto Nemsadze & Group Limbo – Dear God
- Davit Shanidze – “Mtvris Katsi”(Man of Dust)
Belarus – National Final 2017 – 20:00 CET:
13 artists are competing this evening in Minsk, all hoping they will be the one to represent Belarus at this years Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Performing during the interval will be three past Eurovision entrants from Belarus. Ivan (2016), Uzari (2015) and Teo who is also hosting the show tonight with his wife Olga Ryzhikova. A number of artists who also missed out on competing in this years final will also be performing during the interval.
The winner of tonights selection will be decided by 50% public vote and 50% jury vote. The jury vote returns to the Belarusian selection having last been used in 2015. On the jury are:
On the jury are:
- Valeriy Dayneko – Honored Artist of the Belorussian SSR, soloist in “Belorusskiye pesnyary” – Chair of the Jury
- Olga Salamakha – Deputy Director of Belarus 1
- Yelena Treshchinskaya – Director of Radius FM
- Aleksandr Kapenkin – Editor in Chief of BelMuzTV
- Vladimir Bogdan – Producer, Presenter and Director of Novoye radio
- Lyudmila Kuts – Singer and vocal coach
- Inna Mardusevich – Chief specalist of the concert and arts festivals management projects of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus
WATCH THE SELECTION LIVE FROM 20:00 CET – HERE
Competing in the selection are:
- July – Children of the World
- Lexy Weaver (Aleksandra Tkach) – Be Stronger
- Vladislav Kurasov – Follow the Play
- NAVI – Historyja majho žyccia
- Isaac Nightingale – On The Red Line
- Kattie – Wild Wind
- NUTEKI – Take My Heart
- NAPOLI – Let’s Come Together
- Nikita Hodas – Voices in My Head
- Angelica Pushnova – We Should Be Together
- Anastasiya Sheverenko – We’ll Be Together
- LERMONT x JULIC – Heartbeat
- PROvokatsiya – My Love
You can follow both of tonight’s Eurovision selection finals by following @EurovoixMoments. Members of the Eurovoix team will be live tweeting our way through this evenings selections and would love to hear your thoughts throughout the show.
