Articles by Dennis Van Ee (The Netherlands)

Samantina Tina will take part in Supernova again in 2020. Broadcaster LTV announced the nine final candidates and the multiple former participant is on the list. Markus Riva has not made the cut.

Vasil Garvanliev will be North Macedonia’s act for Eurovision 2020. The former backing singer for the country has been chosen internally by broadcaster MRT.

The French participant for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 is Tom Leeb. The 30-year-old singer, actor and comedian has been selected internally by public broadcaster France Télévisions.

Lithuania has started their search for a Eurovision 2020 competitor. Monika Marija, the runner-up in 2019, sailed through to the next round after the first heat of their national selection.

Markus Riva is on the shortlist again for the Latvian preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest in 2020. He is one of the 26 hopefuls, a list that will be narrowed down to 8 by a jury panel for the actual final show.

After a national final in 2019 with only a jury vote, the televote will be back in the national final in Belarus for 2020. The exact date for that final has not been made public yet, but it will not air later than the 6th [read more…]

The 22 artists competing in the upcoming edition of Sanremo have been revealed, with the line-up featuring former Eurovision artists Raphael Gualazzi (2011) and Francesco Gabbani (2017).

Goran Karan, the singer who represented Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2000, will not be trying to take part again in 2020. The ‘Ostani’ singer was one of the 16 participating artists at Dora 2020 but later withdrew from the competition.