Public television announced the 12 finalists of the National Selection for Eurovision Song Contest 2023. The semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 are scheduled for May 9 and 11, and the final will be held on May 13, 2023 in Velyky. United Kingdom.

Deion, “Call Me”

Andrea-Ioanni Stoica (Deioni) is only 17 years old, and even though she came into the limelight relatively recently, she takes her work as an artist seriously and her motto is “Only up from here!”. In 2018, he won the All for Music National Festival Trophy, and in 2018 he won the Grand Trophy at Ozana Barabanca’s Lumini Sonore Festival. Since 2022, he has been working for Shark Records under the pseudonym DEIONA.

Andrada Popa, “No Time for Me”

Andrada Popa is a singer, songwriter and actress from a young age. She represented Romania at the 2008 Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Cyprus and over the years, up to the age of 25, won more than 30 awards and trophies at national and international music festivals. After 4 seasons of Bet for Life and 3 national tours with La La Band, Andrada moved to London to study musical theater at the London College of Music. Also there began her cooperation with Universal and Sony Music UK, for which she composed and performed songs.

Ocean Drive, “Take you home”

The band, consisting of four young people from Baia Mare: Kondor Andrei-Glad, Dunka Alin-Mihai, Dragos David-Andrei and Chol Laszlo, will make their debut directly in the national final of the Eurovision selection “Take You Home”. this is the first song they composed. Although each member has more than 12 years of musical experience, they have been together under the name Ocean Drive since September 17, 2022.

Amiya, “Doll”

19-year-old Maria-Alexia Troake (Amiya) has several important diplomas, including the first prize at the National Festival “Florentine Delmar” in Focshan 2021, the Grand Prix 2020 at the International “Good Vibes” competition. » from Adina Sim. Since 2022, he has been a Shark Records artist under the alias AMIA.

Andrii Dutsu, “Statues”

The young artist was born in Bucharest 28 years ago and lived for some time in London, where he studied music and created the group Unknown Chapters, which debuted in 2020. He received a First Class Honors Diploma – Creative Music – Vocal – Performance at the University of West London, London (2016 – 2019) and a Double grade Distinction Merit BTEC Level 3 – Music Diploma at Wigan and Leigh College (2014 – 2016), Awarded Student of the Year (2016). He was a finalist (second place/2nd place) of X Factor Romania, tenth edition, from 2021.

Teodor Andrey, “DGT (Off and on)”

Teodor Andrii is 19 years old, he is a soloist, composer, lyricist, orchestrator and actor. It

received more than 200 awards at national and international music festivals, wrote more than 100 songs. In 2022, he won the Myosotis Award for the best song by the author-performer, for the song “Artist” (music and lyrics by Teodor Andrei) from the album “FRAGIL”. He also holds the Mihaela Runceanu Festival Grand Trophy 2022 and the Alexandria Pop Fest Grand Trophy 2022. He is a semi-finalist in the first season of Vocea României Junior (2017) and a participant in the X Factor Romania bootcamp phase (2020).

Steven Rojo x Gabriella x Albatros Formation, “Lele”

Rochu Stefan Alexandru (Steven Rojo) is a former athlete who is passionate about music, who switched to it a few years ago. He became a performer, composer and producer, and since 2012 he has been a member of the band “Albatross”. In 2018, he participated in X Factor Romania, where he reached the bootcamp stage.

Gabriella Lazar (Gabriella) started singing in childhood, but only at the age of 16 she made her debut on stage, at a theater festival in French in Douai. She was a contestant on The X Factor in 2015, where she also reached the training stage. He has toured nationally and internationally and performed for Rihanna at the Neversea Festival.

Albatros was founded in 1990 by Lapadat Stefan Christian, an underground music enthusiast who always felt the need to express himself artistically through the dozens of songs he wrote or performed. Together with Melcescu Marian, the instrumentalist of the Albatros Band, they were constantly active in the musical field.

Aledaida, “Blah blah blah”

Adela Percel (Aledaida) from Cluj, she is 24 years old. He attended courses at the People’s School of Arts, specializing in Kanto music, and participated in several competitions where he won first prize.

During high school, he also dabbled in theater. A year ago, she released her first song, which exceeded 700 thousand views.

Adrian Moraru, “Faralae”

Adriana Moraru is Romanian by origin, but has been in Spain for 21 years, where she currently lives. From the age of 6, he began studying solfeggio, violin, piano, classical singing and much more. At the age of 14, he participated in the Ploaia de stele show, won awards at several music festivals and a national karaoke competition. He collaborated with well-known DJs and producers of record labels Blanco y Nero and Kurtuva Music.

Marylis, “Come on”

Maria-Elisa Avramescu (Mariliss) studied singing and graduated from the School of Folk Arts at a very young age. She has a band with which she participated in many cultural events. In 2020, she participated in the Bega Music Festival, a festival organized in Timisoara, in the creative section, where her song took second place, and in 2016, she participated in Vocea României, an experience that led her to the knockout stage

JaxMan “Bad&Cool”

Erin Denetz (Jax Man), 24 years old, started playing music at the age of 6, when she discovered the magic of drums, then followed the guitar, but because her voice was special, she started singing in a choir. When he was 11, he moved with his parents to Belgium, but returned to Romania alone only a few years later to attend a music school in Brașov, his hometown. As a teenager, he discovered his passion for music composition and production, managed to realize his dream and found his own studio Shark Records.

Folk Orchestra Andreea D, “Periniţa mea”

Andreea Păduraru (Andreea D) is a translator with important international activities. He collaborated with Sasha Lopez, which earned him numerous international awards, including two gold discs for sales in Canada and Japan and over 75 million views on YouTube. He also worked with Dj Sava on two hits. Since 2011, the artist began a solo career, releasing tracks that collected millions of views on YouTube. In 2022, Andreea D together with composer Silviu Paduraru founded a new project “Folklor Orchestra Andreea D” to return the public’s attention to Romanian folklore and traditions, but in a modern interpretation.

The works of the finalists can be viewed on the YouTube account of Romanian Television in the original version, as they were submitted to the competition, by following this link.

Studio videos will be shot by TVR.

Who determined the finalists of the national selection for Eurovision 2023

The finalists were chosen by a jury consisting of: Sebastian Ferenc (Untold and Neversea), Laura Coroianu (Emagic), Bohdan Stratula (Urban Sunsets Radio), John Varbiu (Summer Well), Alin Vaida (Jazz in the Park Festival), Mihai Head of the Romanian delegation at Eurovision 2023 Predescu and ESC 2023 Project Director Remus Achim.

On February 11, 2023, Romanian Television is preparing a show of the National Selection of the Eurovision Song Contest, which will be broadcast live from the SRTv studios on air and online, during which 12 pieces of music will be performed live, according to the cited source.

The winner will be determined solely by public voting, with each song being voted on during its broadcast.

The winner of the first place and the performed song will represent Romania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023.

All information regarding the organization of the competition is contained in the National Selection Regulations, which can be found on the official website.

From Ukraine, “Eurovision-2023” will be held in Great Britain, in Liverpool

In 2023, the Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Great Britain, the country that will host the event on behalf of Ukraine, due to the war started by Russia. The event will take place at the Liverpool Arena and will consist of two semi-finals, which will be broadcast live on 9 and 11 May, and the final on 13 May 2023.

The Eurovision Song Contest is the most important international music competition organized by the EBU, the largest association of public television channels in Europe. The European Song Contest (ESC) has been held every year since 1956. The show is one of the longest-running and most popular television programs in the world, airing in Europe as well as Australia, Asia and the United States.

Romanian Television is the organizer of the national selection and has been participating in the European competition since 1993.

Romania’s best performances at this competition were: twice third place (Luminiţa Anghel & Sistem – Kyiv, 2005; Paula Seling and Ovi – Oslo, 2010) and once fourth place (Mihai Trăistariu – Athens, 2006).

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