AVROTROS has announced the groupings of the singers that will be competing in Junior Songfestival 2023.
The split of the singers into the groupings that they will compete with in the Junior Songfestival 2023 has been announced. Nine singers had been selected by the jury to go through to the Dutch national final, with a panel now determining the complete line-up. Two trios, one duet and one soloist will be competing to represent the Netherlands in Nice, they are:
- Solo singer – Duron
- Duet – Jasmin and Sep
- Trio – Hannah, Robine and Jikke
- Trio – Aimée, Gina and Sana
In the next few weeks, the songs that each of the four acts will be competing with will be revealed, alongside the name of the acts. In edition, it has been confirmed that the official group song this year is titled “Feeling Good Vibes”.
The four acts will be competing in the live final on September 23. The winner will represent the Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Nice, France, on November 26.
At the 2022 contest, the Netherlands was represented by Luna with the song “La Festa”. She finished 7th scoring a total of 128 points.
Image source: EBU / Corinne Cumming | Source: AVROTROS
The Netherlands debuted at the first edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2003 and is the only country to have taken part in every edition to date. To date the country has only won the competition once. Their only victory came in 2009 when Ralf Mackenbach performed “Click Clack” scoring a total of 121 points, this was just 5 points more than runners-up Armenia and Russia. The Netherlands narrowly lost the contest in 2011 when Rachel performed “Teenager”, she lost by 5 points. The Netherlands’ worst result came in 2021 when Ayana finished in 19th place out of 19 competing countries.
Famous producers shouldn’t write Junior Songfestival entries anymore. It’s a children’s song competition anyway.