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Belarus: Eurofest starts next week!
On 21st December the National Belorussian Television company will air the Eurofest semi-final with 15 participants. The professional jury as well as the televoters will chose several to qualify to the final and compete for the right to represent the country at Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade. The exact number of the acts to qualify has not been specified yet by the broadcaster.
In support of the Eurofest and Eurovision Song Contest itself, a few days before the semi final, on 15 December, First TV channel will host Viva Eurovision, a show with many special guests whose names are well known to Eurovision fans. Most of the guest stars are the participants of this year's contest in Helsinki: Dmitry Koldun (Belarus 2007) as well as Maria Sestic (Bosnia & Herzegovina 2007), Natalia Barbu (Moldova 2007), Andre (Armenia 2007), winner of 1998 Dana International and this year's winner Marija Serifovic will take part in the concert. In addition, there will be special guest appearances from 2006: Tina Karol (Ukraine) and Polina Smolova (Belarus).
Other guests will be Alexandra & Konstantin, Russian Anita Tsoy and local stars Irina Dorofeeva, Alexandra Gaiduk, Janet, The Project, Borneo, Tiani-Tolkay among other past year semi finalists and finalists. The show will be hosted by popular Russian actor Alexander Oleshko and the executive producer of Belteleradiocompany's music division, singer, Anastasia Tikhanovich.
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- What mixture of televote and jury vote do you think is the best?
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No, I mean 2007!
I agree, the 2006 song was good!
@ Little Imp
Of course...
First of all, things have changed a lot... when Belarus started in 2004, the voting procedure was a bit biased but not at all as ridiculous as it is now... In 2004, f. ex. Germany's Max, Cyprus' Lisa or Sweden's Lena made it to the top10...
In the following, Belarus sent Angelica Agurbash and Polina Smolova - the one ruined everything with a terrible performance, the other one had a strange song...
Both of them bad enough not to reach the final in any case - whether they have started for Belarus, Macedonia or Turkey...
Concerning this year: If Dima Koldun has started for Portugal, he wouldn't have reached the final - and everybody would have written "oh, yes, that's clear, his performance was totally c***, Western countries are always complaining about that they're not doing well but they never are sending good entries, etc. etc."
@ Max Raspail:
You should think before you write. It's the first time Belarus made it to the final. So it is not as easy to simply say "It's Belarus". If you have said it's Kirkorov and a singer rather well known in Russia (the Russian Idols Show) then maybe... but not "it's Belarus".
Hm, it seems as if there are millions of guest stars - how long will the show last?
This year's entry was horrible - one of the worst performances of Eurovision. I couldn't stand this guy and especially his singing... The magic of this song and this singer should have been reworked completely...
I'm not wondering why this terrible entry scored so high - it came from Belarus...
I hope in a good entry like "Work you magic"... this year Belarus had a great song!
@ Daniel - No rules were changed " at the last minute " to select " Work your magic " this year - not a single one. It only happened one time, when Mrs. Angelica decided to change her song because of some fan polls.
Anita Tsoy: now there is a name everyone needs to remember. Anita entered the 2005 Russian NF, and I hope she enters this years Russian NF. She would the perfect choice for Russia.
I think we're all already used to [i]Belarus[/i] and their corrupt National Finals. I just hope the final song is as good this year's eventual entry.
Daniel Griffiths 12 points!!!!
Hayko or Andre?
Why do Belarus even bother holding NF's? They always change the rules at the last minute to favour a certain singer anyway!
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