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Russia In The Eurovision Song Contest 2019
Russia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with the song "Scream", written by Philipp Kirkorov, Dimitris Kontopoulos and Sharon Vaughn. The song was performed by Sergey Lazarev, who was internally selected by the Russian broadcaster Russia-1 to represent the nation at the 2019 contest in Tel Aviv, Israel. Background Prior to the 2019 contest, Russia had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 21 times since its first entry in 1994. Russia had won the contest on one occasion in 2008 with the song "Believe" performed by Dima Bilan. In , Russia finished third with the song "You Are the Only One" performed by Russia's 2019 entrant Sergey Lazarev. In 2018, Russia placed fifteenth in the second semi-final with the song "I Won't Break" performed by Julia Samoylova, making it the first time Russia did not qualify for the final since the introduction of semi-finals in . Before Eurovision Internal selection On 7 February 2019, Russian broadcaster RTR announced that ...
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Sergey Lazarev
Sergey Vyacheslavovich Lazarev ( rus, Серге́й Вячесла́вович Ла́зарев, , sʲɪrˈɡʲej vʲɪtɕɪˈslavəvʲɪtɕ ˈlazərʲɪf; born 1 April 1983) is a Russian singer, dancer and actor. He is most famous for his singing career, when he rose to fame as a member of the group Smash!!. The group broke up in 2006. Since then Lazarev has pursued a solo career. He represented Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden, and finished in third place, coming first in the televote. He represented Russia again at Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel with the song " Scream", and similarly finished in third place. Early life and child stardom Lazarev was born in Moscow on 1 April 1983. From age of four, Lazarev practiced artistic gymnastics, but stopped due to his parents' divorce. Subsequently, Lazarev started singing in a children's choir and became interested in performing. Lazarev got to know about Neposedy's existence merely ...
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Semi-finals In The Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine a winner. Based on the Sanremo Music Festival held in Italy since 1951, Eurovision has been held annually since 1956 (apart from ), making it the longest-running annual international televised music competition and one of the world's longest-running television programmes. Active members of the EBU, as well as invited associate members, are eligible to compete, and 52 countries have participated at least once. Each participating broadcaster sen ...
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Russia In The Eurovision Song Contest
Russia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 23 times since their debut in . Russia won the contest with Dima Bilan performing the song " Believe". One of the most successful countries in the contest in the 21st century with a total of ten top five placements, Russia finished second with Alsou in , Dima Bilan in , Buranovskiye Babushki in and Polina Gagarina in ; third with t.A.T.u. in , Serebro in , Sergey Lazarev in and , and fifth with Dina Garipova in . In , they failed to qualify for the final for the first time in their history. The Russian entry has been chosen through both internal selections and a televised national final titled '' Evrovidenie'', with their most recent entry () being chosen by the latter. Following their exclusion from the due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, on 26 February 2022, the Russian broadcasters VGTRK and Channel One announced that they would suspend their membership in the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The suspensi ...
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Russia In The Eurovision Song Contest 2014
Russia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Russian entry was selected internally by the Russian broadcaster Russia-1 (TV channel), Russia-1 (RTR). The Tolmachevy Sisters, winners of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006, represented Russia with the song "Shine", which qualified from the first semi-final and placed 7th in the final, scoring 89 points. Before Eurovision Internal selection On 1 September 2013, RTR announced that a national final, titled ''Kto?'', would take place on 31 December 2013 to select the Russian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014. RTR opened a submission period for interested artists and composers to submit their entries and a jury panel was to evaluate the received submissions and select 25 entries for the competition, however RTR announced in December 2013 that the national final would be postponed until March 2014 and the submission deadline would be extended until 28 February 2014. Plans for the natio ...
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Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006
The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 was the fourth edition of the annual Junior Eurovision Song Contest for young singers aged 8 to 15. On 2 December 2006, the contest was broadcast live from Bucharest, Romania making it the second time the contest had been held in a capital city. It was organised by the Romanian national broadcaster, Romanian Television (TVR), in co-operation with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The show was broadcast live in the competing countries, as well as Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Australian television channel Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) that acquired the rights for broadcasting the show, which was broadcast on 1 January 2007. This was Serbia's first participation in a Eurovision event as an independent nation. The contest was won by The Tolmachevy Twins from with the song "Vesenniy Jazz". Location Bidding phase and host selection On 5 October 2005, it was confirmed that TVR had won the rights of hosting the contest over A ...
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Tolmachevy Sisters
Anastasiya Andreyevna Tolmacheva and Maria Andreyevna Tolmacheva (born 14 January 1997, Kursk), known as the Tolmachevy Sisters (), are identical twin singers and actresses from Kursk, Russia. Aged nine, they won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with their song "Vesenniy jazz". Eight years later, they Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, represented Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, placing seventh with the song "Shine (Tolmachevy Sisters song), Shine". The sisters released an album titled ''Polovinki'' in 2007, and appeared in the made-for-TV movie ''Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors (2007 film), Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors''. Career 2006: Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 At the age of nine, the sisters represented Russia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Bucharest, Romania after being selected from 20 acts in the national final held on 4 June 2006. They later won the Junior Eurovision by a clear margin with their song "Vesenniy jazz" which earne ...
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Simon Osiashvili
Simon Abramovich Osiashvili (russian: Симо́н Абрамович Осиашви́ли; born December 4, 1952, Lviv) is a Russian poet, singer, Honoured Artist of Russia (2002).Почётное звание присвоено указом президента России № 1429 от 19 декабря 2002 года
Since 1986 to the present time the songs of Simon Osiashvili year are unchanged winners of the TV Festival . Songwriter for Igor Sarukhanov,

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Albania In The Eurovision Song Contest 2019
Albania participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel, with the song "" performed by Jonida Maliqi. Its selected entry was chosen through the national selection competition organised by (RTSH) in December 2018. To this point, the nation had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest fifteen times since its first entry in . Prior to the contest, the song was promoted by a music video and live performances in the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom. Albania was drawn to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019#Semi-final 2, second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest, which took place on 16 May 2019. Performing as number 14, the nation was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and therefore qualified to compete in the final. In the Eurovision Song Contest 2019#Final, grand final on 18 May 2019, it performed as number two and placed 17th out of the 26 participating countries, scoring 90 points. Background Prior to t ...
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Lithuania In The Eurovision Song Contest 2019
Lithuania participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with the song "Run with the Lions" written by Ashley Hicklin, Eric Lumiere and Pele Loriano. The song was performed by Jurij Veklenko. The Lithuanian broadcaster Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT) organised the national final ' (Eurovision Song Contest national selection) in order to select the Lithuanian entry for the 2019 contest in Tel Aviv, Israel. The national final took place over seven weeks and involved 49 competing entries. The results of each show were determined by the combination of votes from a jury panel and a public vote. In the final, eight artists and songs remained and "Run with the Lions" performed by Jurijus was selected as the winner. Lithuania was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 16 May 2019. Performing during the show in position 12, "Run with the Lions" was not announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and ther ...
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Big Five (Eurovision)
The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine a winner. Based on the Sanremo Music Festival held in Italy since 1951, Eurovision has been held annually since 1956 (apart from ), making it the longest-running annual international televised music competition and one of the world's longest-running television programmes. Active members of the EBU, as well as invited associate members, are eligible to compete, and 52 countries have participated at least once. Each participating broadcaster se ...
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YouTube
YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the List of most visited websites, second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. , videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's Google AdSens ...
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Egor Kreed
Egor Nikolayevich Bulatkin (russian: link=, Егор Николаевич Булаткин, born June 25, 1994), better known by his stage name Egor Kreed and KReeD, is a Russian rapper, singer and songwriter. He began his career under his stage name "KReeD" in 2014, but later changed it to "Egor Kreed". Early life Egor Kreed was born on June 25, 1994 in Penza. His father, Nikolai Bulatkin, works at a company that produces nuts while his older sister, Polina, lives and works in the United States as a singer and actress. To pursue his career, he moved to Moscow. He wanted to become a singer since the age of 11 when he heard 50 Cent's song "Candy Shop". After high school, he enrolled at the Academy of Music Gnesinon Kreed. He posted his first song titled "Lyubov v seti" on YouTube in July 2011. The video brought success and recognition from across Russia, racking up millions of views. In March 2012, Kreed won the "Star Vkontakte – Channel Five" in the category "Best Hip Hop Proje ...
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