Estonia selects a song

After two semifinals it’s time for Estonia to make a choice. The transmission starts at 18.30 CET and you can watch it here. The songs are:

  • Egert Milder – Free Again
  • Suured tüdrukud – Heaven’s Not That Far Tonight
  • Hans Nayna – One By One
  • Ivo Linna, Robert Linna, Supernova – Ma olen siin
  • Karl Killing – Kiss Me
  • Uku Suviste – The Lucky One
  • Sissi – Time
  • Jüri Pootsmann – Magus melanhoolia
  • Redel – Tartu
  • Koit Toome – We Could Have Been Beautiful
  • Andrei Zevakin & Pluuto – Wingman
  • Kadri Voorand – Energy

Egert Milder took part in Eesti Laul 2015 but didn’t reach the final. In 2020 he became 4th. Kaire Vilgats (Suured tüdrukud) became 8th in 1998 and 9th in 2009.  Karl Killing became 6th in 2018. Sissi, the daughter of former Eurovision winner Dave Benton, became 4th in 2020. The guys of Redel reached the 3rd place in 2013 as members of the punk band Winny Puhh.

But there are no less than 4 former winners tonight.


Ivor Linna represented Estonia in the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest with “Kaelakee hääl”, in duet with Maarja-Liis.

 

Jüri Pootsmann sang “Play” in the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest.

Koit Toome even represented Estonia twice: in 1998 with “Mere lapsed” and in 2018, together with Laura, with “Lost in Verona”.

Uku Suviste won last year’s Eesti Laul with the song “What love is”.

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