The fifteenth artist in our Who Is series for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 is Andria Putkaradze from Georgia.
Eleven-year-old Andria Putkaradze was born in Batumi, a seaside city in Georgia. His love for singing came about at the age of two, later becoming a member of the Children of The Sea vocal group. He went on to study piano at the Zakaria Paliashvili Music School. Outside of singing, his favourite hobby is playing computer games with his friends.
Andria was chosen to represent Georgia in Madrid having won the GPB series Ranina earlier this year. “To My Mom” is written by renowned Georgian composer Giga Kukhianidze in collaboration with Maka Davitaya. Kukhianidze wrote thirteen of the seventeen Junior Eurovision entries from Georgia.
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Georgia has won the contest on three occasions, making them the country with the joint highest number of victories throughout the history of the contest. Georgia debuted in JESC in 2007 with Mariam Romelashvili and her song “Odelia Ranuni”, where she placed 4th with 116 points. Their first win was just a year later in 2008, with the trio Bzikebi and their song “Bzz”. Their second win was in 2011 with the group Candy and their song “Candy Music”. Most recently in 2016, eleven-year-old Mariam Mamadashvili performed her song “Mzeo” in Malta, and took the victory with 239 points.
