Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) and Ranina recently confirmed that Georgia will participate in this year’s Junior Eurovision, to be held in France, and now they are putting out calls to prospective singers to audition. Ranina, the popular Georgian television children’s talent show, will once again be used as the method of selection for Junior Eurovision. A popular television event in …
Georgia is the 12th and last Junior Eurovision 2020 participant to name their representative and song, but moved one step closer by naming their three finalists for next Friday’s Ranina final. For the third year running, Georgia is using the Ranina contest to select its artist, and next week we will know which one of three finalists Sandra Gadelia, Marita Khvedelidze, and Rati Gelovani will …
Updated August 21, 2020 – Ranina will now debut on Friday, September 11, 2020, according to TV-1’s Ranina page: https://1tv.ge/show/ranina/ All references to Ranina debuting on September 4th have been removed from Ranina’s official Facebook page since our original publication. Thanks to reader Andrzej for the update. * After a COVID-19 disrupted summer, Georgia’s plans for Junior Eurovision 2020 are …
Georgia Public Broadcasting’s TV-1 talent show Ranina announced today that Georgia will be participating at Junior Eurovision 2020 and that Ranina will be the method of selection for the third year running. A full six days after Junior Eurovision 2019 in Gliwice-Silesia, Poland, auditions for Georgia’s 2020 selection will begin for any budding singers aged 8 to 14 willing to …
For all those Junior Eurovision fans who were complaining that the contest was being inundated by slickly produced songs appropriate for adult performers, Giorgi Rostiashvili has just the song for you – a fun, jazzy, kid-friendly number titled “We Need Love.” (Or “We Want Love,” or “We Need a Love,” depending on translation.) “We Need Love” was written by famed …
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[AdSense-B] Ana Berishvili, Anastasia Garsevanishvili, and Giorgi Rotiashvili are the three young hopefuls going forward to next Sunday’s Final of Ranina, the TV talent show being used to select Georgia’s representative for Junior Eurovision 2019 in Gliwice, Poland. There will no doubt be some controversy on social media tonight and throughout the week regarding the elimination of Nika Petriashvili, who …
[AdSense-B] It has come down to this round. After three tough rounds where a lot was asked of ten young aspiring Georgian performers, we head into the fourth and final “tour” where five of the ten Junior Eurovision 2019 potential contestants will face elimination from Ranina, the reality television contest used to select their representative in Gliwice, Poland. After a …
[AdSense-B] It’s the Georgian movie tour on this week and next week’s რანინა (Ranina), as the ten contestants are this time asked to sing songs from famous Georgian movies with the assistance of Georgian jazz sextet The Quintessence. The three female, three male sextet from Tbilisi, each possessing a unique classical singing voice, led five of the ten contestants this …
[AdSense-B] A recent argument among fans of Eurovision is the use of The Idol, X Factor, The Voice or similar singing contest to select an entrant for Eurovision. Many fans view it as a negative influence on the contest, arguing that these contests devalue Eurovision by countries losing their identity by sending generic entrants who favor generic songs. A counterpoint …
