Azerbaijan

The new song title for the 29-year-old Efendi is ‘Mata Hari’. It will serve as the song for Azerbaijan at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021.

Samira Efendi won Azerbaijan’s traditional preselection-behind-closed-doors. Broadcaster Ictimai seems to have found back its eagerness to compete at the highest Eurovision levels. They will send Samira Efendi after all next year, and expectations will be high.

We may not get to see our 2020 favourites take to the stage, but that doesn’t mean we can’t reminisce on our Eurovision favourites. This series is aimed to discover the team’s favourite entries from the 21st century, from 2001 to 2019.

Azerbaijan has presented their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020. Samira Efendit will sing the song ‘Cleopatra’ in Rotterdam and you can check it out here!

Azeri broadcaster Ictimai TV has confirmed that Samira Efendi will represent Azerbaijan at Eurovision 2020 in Rotterdam. The broadcaster selected the singer through an internal process. Samira will reveal her song officially in early March.

In their first six years at the Eurovision Song Contest, Azerbaijan always made it to the Top 10 of the final. But, between 2013 and 2018, the country disappeared from the left side of the table. Until Chingiz came around.

The entry from Azerbaijan at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 is called ‘Truth’. The country selected singer Chingiz Mustafayev internally to perform the song in Tel Aviv.

The semi finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 had a couple of shock exits. Greece and Armenia failed to qualify for the final for the second time in history and Azerbaijan, Russia and Romania even had to suffer that fate for the very first [read more…]