Andria Putkaradze has won Season VII of popular Georgian talent show Ranina, and as is the case the last six seasons, will represent Georgia at Junior Eurovision 2024 in Madrid, Spain. Putkaradze beat out Sandro Gurgenadze and Barbara Morgoshia in the three competitor Semi-Final, bringing the ten week, four round, one Semi-Final and Final marathon to a close. Given the Final …
Three young Georgian hopefuls progressed to the Grand Final of Ranina today after last night’s Semi-Final. Andria Putkaradze, Sandro Gurgenadze and Barbara Morgoshia made it to next week’s Semi-Final, while Andria Mishvelidze and Sandro Ashotia narrowly missed out. In a Semi-Final focused on Georgian nostalgic childhood songs by pianist and composer Meri Davitashvili (1924 – 2004), with backing vocals provided …
A few days ago, it was announced that the 2024 Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Madrid, Spain. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Spain’s national public broadcaster, Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE), are thrilled to reveal that the 22nd edition of the contest will take place in Spain later this year. This marks a historic moment, as RTVE will …
Five young Georgian hopefuls progressed to the Semi-Final of Ranina today after completing the foreign language fourth round. Sandro Gurgenadze, Andria Mishvelidze, Sandro Ashotia, Andria Putkaradze, and Barbara Morgoshia survived four challenging rounds and made it to next week’s Semi-Final. This week, five of the contestants performed songs in French, Portuguese, Hindi, Turkish, and English, with mastery of foreign language an …
For the second year in a row, the semi-finals were purely decided by the televote – well, with the exception of San Marino – however, the final is still decided by both the jurors and the televote, which has been the case, since 2009 now. Once again this year, the EBU revealed the full list of all the jurors from …
The hectic days are indeed over us, the second semi-final has concluded and with that, we got another 10 finalists for this year’s contest, and since it was the conclusion of the second semi-final, we finally learned who became this year’s 26 finalists, let’s have a quick look into all of that. The remaining spots Let’s first have a quick …
Once again we asked you to predict who will qualify for the grand final during tonight’s semi-final, and a total of 1,875 votes were cast by 252 readers. And now it’s time to reveal the results! It should come at no surprise that Switzerland’s very own Nemo topped our poll tonight collecting a total of 195 votes from users – …
As the second semi-final rapidly approaches, it’s time for us to discover who YOU believe will advance to the grand final tomorrow. A total of 16 acts are slated to compete in the semi-final, vying for 10 coveted spots. Now, it’s your turn, the readers of ESC United, to share your predictions on which acts will qualify for the grand …
The fourth round of Ranina, Georgia’s method of selection for Junior Eurovision, started this evening with the first five of the ten hopefuls being asked to perform a song in a non-native language. This week, five of the contestants performed songs in Swahili, English, Spanish, Italian, and Ukrainian, an important Junior Eurovision test as historically many countries insert non-native language …
The second set of countries rehearse in the second part of the Eurovision Second Semi final 2. Following yesterdays rehearsals of the first part of this semi plus the Big 5 and Sweden, today is the second rehearsal of San Marino, Georgia, Belgium, Estonia, Israel, Norway and Netherlands. Note: We recognize that Israel also completed their rehearsal today but have …
