Kristian Kostov will represent Bulgaria at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017. He has been selected internally by broadcaster BNT with the song ‘Beautiful Mess’, which can be heard here.
When asked about his song, Kristian gave an interesting explanation as to why he and his songwriting team chose this title. “’Beautiful Mess’ is authentic, interesting and transmits the sentiment and the main idea of the song. I like the song, because it’s what I am. As a performer, now I’m trying to find myself and actually this is my first song that has a deeper meaning. And I like it a lot.”
Kristian Kostov – youngest participant
Young, fresh, exotic, charming, a true artist ready to impress. Or just in two words – KRISTIAN KOSTOV. Read more: https://t.co/hgOA59N424 pic.twitter.com/Eo3ZAoARVV
— BNT Eurovision BG (@bg_eurovision) 13 maart 2017
The announcement for his Eurovision journey finds Kristian just 2 days away from his 17th birthday, making him the youngest addition to the line-up this year and the first singer born in the new millennium to enter the competition.
I like his voice, though he is not very stable in uptempo songs:
https://youtu.be/n8xjiv9jw9M
and he has a over-dramatised way of singing (you can hear Dima Bilan was his coach) which easily annoys: