February 7, 2023

It’s Vesna for Czech Republic!

Czech Republic has chosen. With 70% of an international jury and 30% of Czech audience, the winner is Vesna with the song “My sister’s crown”. The song is written by Kateryna Vatchenko, Patricie Kaňok Fuxová and Tanita Yankova and composed by Patricie Kaňok Fuxová and Tanita Yankova. Czech Republic will perform in the 2nd half of the 1st semifinal. Vesna, “My sister’s crown”, 10.584 pts. Pam Rabbit, “Ghosting”, 4.217 pts. Rodan, “Introvert party club”, 1.995 pts. Markéta Irglová, “Happy”, 1.009 pts. Maella, “Flood”, 599 pts.

Czech Republic: we will have a winner!

One week ago, Czech Republic presented 5 songs, one of which will represent the country in the Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool. Today the winner will be announced. That will happen at 19.00 CET, and you can watch it on YouTube. The five competing songs are: 1 Maella Flood 2 Pam Rabbit Ghosting 3 Markéta Irglová Happy 4 Vesna My sister’s crown 5 Rodan Introvert party club Pam Rabbit took part in the national selection in 2019 (2nd) and 2020 (6th).

Italy: Festival di Sanremo starts

Tomorrow, the annual festival di Sanremo starts in Italy. Before the start of the contest, all the participants were (secretly) able to express their wish to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest. If the winner does not want to go to Liverpool, RAI selects another contestant. The show will start at 20.40 CET and you can watch it here. Fourteen songs will be presented tomorrow: Anna Oxa sings “Sali (canto dell’anima)” Ariete sings “Mare di guai” Colla Zio sings “Non mi va” Coma_Cose sings “L’addio” Elodie sings “Due” Gianluca Grignani sings “Quando ti manca il fiato” Gianmaria sings “Mostro” I Cugini di Campagna sings “Lettera 22” Leo Gassmann sings “Terzo cuore” Mara Sattei sings “Duemilaminuti” Marco Mengoni sings “Due vite” Mr. Rain sings “Supereroi” Olly sings “Polvere” Ultimo sings “Alba” Anna Oxa took part in SanRemo 1987 (7th), 1989 (with Fausto Leali, 1st), 1990 (4th), 1997 (2nd) and 2011. She represented Italy in the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest with “Avrei voluto”.Coma_Cose took part in SanRemo 2021 (20th).Elodie sang in SanRemo 2017 (8th) and 2020 (7th).Gianluca Grignani took part in 2015 (8th).Marco Mengoni won SanRemo 2015 and represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest with “L’essenziale”.Ultimo was the runner up in SanRemo 2019. Note that we only mentioned the SanRemo participation in the years that RAI selected the Eurovision participant from the festival.