Georgia: Iru Kechanovi selected for Eurovision 2023

Georgia: Iru Khechanovi selected for Eurovision 2023
Thursday, 02 February 2023

  • Georgia have chosen their Eurovision 2023 hopeful! Iru Khechanovi was the winner of The Voice of Georgia, directly making her the Eurovision representative too. We expect the song reveal in the next few days.

    All four teams in The Voice had two acts to compete in the final and the public had the chance to pass the golden ticket to Liverpool to only one contestant. Iru Khechanovi was the lucky one after her beautiful performance of Loreen's "Euphoria".

     These are the final results of the show:

    1. Iru Khechanovi – 21.88% 
    2. Giorgi Datiashvili – 15.72%
    3. Likuna Tutisani – 13.76%
    4. Lika Siradze – 13.73%
    5. Anka Tatarashvili – 11.56%
    6. Tina Datikashvili – 10.34%
    7. Tako Kakalashvili – 10.09%
    8. Kakha Aslamazashvili – 2.92%

    A few words about Iru

    Iru Khechanovi has Georgian origins. She was one of the members of the group Candy that represented Georgia in JESC 2011 and with the score 108 points became the winners of the contest. 

     

    Georgia in Eurovision

    Georgia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest first time in 2007 with Sopho Khalvashi and her song Visionary dream . Since then it has competed 11 times missing out only the 2009 edition of the contest, when they chose to withdraw. Its best results were scored in Oslo with Sofia Nizharadze and her song Shine (2010) and Dusseldorf with Eldrine and the entry One More Day (2011) when both achieved a 9th placing in the Grand Final.

    In 2020, won the Georgian Idol and was set  to represent Georgia at the 65th Eurovision Song Contestin Rotterdam with his song  “Take me as i am.  Unfortunately, the contest was cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak depriving Kipiani of the chance to perform on Rotterdam Ahoy’s stage. In 2021 Tornike was selected internally for Eurovision 2021 in Rotterdam where he competed in the second semi final with the ballad song "You" , which sadly didn't qualify to the final.

    Last year Circus Mircus were internally selected to represent the nation in Turin where they came last in the 2nd semi final with their song  ‘Lock me in' failing to reach the Grand final. 

    News Source/ Image: GPB

     

     

     

     

AUTHORS

  • Melina F.

    Melina F.

    True follower of the Eurovision Song Contest since 2002, really enjoy listening daily to all the Eurovision hits and keeping up with all the Eurovision stars.