Georgia: The Voice Georgia continues with second round of Blind auditions

• The Voice Georgia, the show that will be selecting Georgia's Eurovision 2023 hopeful continued last evening with the second round of Blind auditions. 

  For Eurovision 2023 Georgia will be selecting their hopeful through the music talent show of The Voice Georgia instead of an internal selection or the Georgian Idol  which was the case for Georgia over the recent years.

  Notably this is the 5th season of 'The Voice of Georgia' and the second on the public television, PBS. However, this time the show attracts even more attention as it will be used to determine Georgia's Eurovision 2023 hopeful.

  Following the first episode of blind auditions the show progressed to the second round of blind auditions with the four judges cliaming  their favorite acts for their team . Stephane Mgebrishvili, David Evgenidze, Sopho Toroshelidze and Dato Porchkhidze are the four coaches for this season. 

  Here are the results of the second run of auditions and which acts joined one of the coaches teams: 

  The Qyalifying acts: 

  • Tako Kakalashvili
  • Dato Rusadze
  • Erekle Turkadze
  • Mariam Bugianishvili
  • Saba Chachua
  • Ekaterine Sofa
  • Anri Bolkhadze
  • Tina Datikashvili

  The teams after 2nd round of auditions:

  • Stephane Mgebrishvili's Team:  Likuna Tutisani, Aliona Tsintsadze, Saba Chachua, Dato Rusadze
  • David Evgenidze's Team – Salome, Mariam Bugianishvili, Ekaterine Sofa
  • Sopho Toroshelidze's Team – Salome, Lika Siradze, Tako Kakalashvili, Anri Bolkhadze, Tina Datikashvili
  • Dato Porchkhidze's Team – Kakha Aslamazashvili, Tsotne Barbakadze, Erekle Turkadze

   

  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.

  This years 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: 1TV.GE

   

   

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