After 3 weeks of intense competing, Jamala won the national selection final show in Ukraine. Being one of the favourites right from the start, I caught up with her during her preparations for Stockholm. Hello Jamala, thank you for taking the time to answer these questions for us. What was your reaction when the Ukrainian public selected you to represent …

2 semi finals down, 3 weekends later, Ukraine has selected its finalist for Eurovision 2016 in Stockholm. The winner, who will be flying the Ukrainian flag in Stockholm will be Jamala with her song ‘1944’. She got 5 points from the jury and 6 points from the televotes. Ukraine have a 100% Grand final qualifying record in Eurovision with 1 victory back …

  The Ukrainian national final took place on the evening of 21st February. On Youtube there were English translators which made things a lot easier to follow.   First up were Brunettes shoot Blondes with their song ‘Every Monday’, they say their genre of music is indie-rock. With their artistic, animated and colourful staging, their performance is striking. The memorable …

I managed to catch up with Swedish songwriters, producers and identical twins Ylva and Linda Persson about their 2016 Eurovision journey, they have entered many national selections this year, so I decided to ask some questions about their Eurovision Journey.   What makes competing with Songs in the national finals special? We have a huge passion and love for Eurovision …

A busy, busy week for all Eurovision fans. Switzerland, Austria and Denmark all have chosen their entries for Stockholm while a bunch of other countries continued their search by holding Semi Finals. Sweden, Hungary, Finland, Iceland, Ukraine and Lithuania all were busy with Eurovision this week and we all certainly appreciate it. But there is no way that you can …

With 2 semi finals over, Ukraine has now selected their top 6 acts to go through to their National Final on Sunday 21st February. The finalists and the combined scores are as follows: Jamala ‘1944’  (9 points Jury/9 points Televote) SunSay ‘Love Manifest’ (9 points Jury/9 points Televote) Brunettes Shoot Blondes ‘Every Monday’ (8 Points Jury/7 Points Televote) Pur:Pur ‘We …

Tonight is a huge night in Eurovisionland. (Potentially) Three songs will be selected for Stockholm, Switzerland, Denmark and Italy. Italian TV channel will offer the opportunity to the winner to go to Eurovision, but, that is down to the act. Ukraine: Semi-Final 2 SunSay  – Love Manifest Pur:Pur – We do Change Peaks of Kings – Last Hope Pringlez – Easy to love Victoria Petryk – Overload …

  Here, exclusively with ESC United, we have an interview with the JESC 2015 participant for Ukraine, Anna Trincher. Anna has been on such a journey since JESC. I learnt a lot whilst communicating with Anna for this interview, even wrote in Ukrainian 🙂  I asked Anna some questions to get to know more about her.   Your JESC 2015 …

In todays ESC United  Know-It-Alls Podcast, we are going to review the songs from the many, many Semis that took place yesterday. Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Ukraine all selected a few songs and send the rest packing while Hungary and Lithuania are still narrowing down the field of acts through Heats. In case you didn’t have the opportunity to listen …

After a rather show beginning to the National Final season, today and beyond it is full steam ahead! We will have no less than six countries broadcasting shows for their national selection! Ukraine – Semi-Final 1: 18:00 CET Anastasia Prykhodko – I am Free Now The Hardkiss – Helpless Tonya Matvienko – Tin Whistle Vladislav Kurasov – I’m Insane Låvika …