Georgia: The Voice Georgia kicks off with first round of Blind auditions
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The Voice Georgia, the show that will be selecting Georgia's Eurovision 2023 hopeful kicked off last evening with the first 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.
The first episode of the show was broadcast last evening with the first set of auditions taking place. The four judges of the show had their first chance to cliam for their team the acts that impressed them mostly. Stephane Mgebrishvili, David Evgenidze, Sopho Toroshelidze and Dato Porchkhidze are the four coaches for this season.
Here are the results of the first run of auditions and which acts joined one of the coaches teams:
- Stephane Mgebrishvili's joined Likuna Tutisani and Aliona Tsintsadze
- David Evgenidze saw Salome joining his team
- Sopho Toroshelidze got Lika Siradze on her team
- Dato Porchkhidz's team saw Kakha Aslamazashvili, Tsotne Barbakadze filling two spots
You can watch all performances of the first episode in the following video:
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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