Lithuania: Pabandom iš naujo 2023 competing acts and dates released
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LRT, has released the dates and the competing acts and entries of Pabandom iš naujo! 2023 the show that will determine Lithuania's Eurovision 2023 hopeful.
Lithuania will be selecting their Eurovision 2023 act and song via the Pabandom iš naujo! 2023 show. Out of the submissions that were sent to LRT from October 11 till December 12, a two phase evaluation took place.
In the first stage the broadcaster checked out whether the submissions comply with the terms and rules of the national selection, while in the second stage a special committee shorlisted 30 acts that will take part in the 2 qualifying rounds.
Namely, the participants selected along with their songs are :
- Agnė – New Start
- Aistė Pilvelytė – We’re Not Running
- Alen Chicco – Do You
- Antikvariniai Kašpirovskio dantys – Sėdi Ir Važiuoji
- Baiba – When The Lights Go Out
- Beatrich – Like a Movie
- Donata – Dreamer
- Gabrielius Vagelis – Šauksmas
- Gebrasy – Saw Your Ghost
- Il Senso – Sparnai
- I. T. – Žinau, Tai Tu
- .Joseph June – Vacuum
- Justa Rubežiūtė – When I’ll Find
- Justė Kraujelytė – Need More Fun
- Justin 3 feat. Dj AugustYno – Not Giving Up
- Lina Štalytė – My Body
- Luknė – Paradise
- Mario Junes – Do What You Do
- Matt Len – Midnight Train
- Melona – Song Of Whispers
- Monika Linkytė – Stay
- MoonBee – Rumor
- Multiks – London
- NOY – Destiny’s Child
- Paulina Paukštaitytė – Let Me Think About Me
- Petunija – Love Of My Life
- Rūta MUR – So Low
- Viktorija Faith – If You Ever Miss Me
- Voldemaras Petersonas – Things
- W.I – You Can Not
Among the contestants we see Monika Linkytė who had represented the country back in 2015 in Vienna along with Vaidas Baumila.
The enties will be releasing according to the will of each contestant, as they will have the choice of seleccting the time of revealing the song.
Pabandom iš naujo! 2023 shows
The Lithuanian national selection for Eurovision 2023 will unfild over 5 live televised shows (Two Qualifying Rounds, 2 Semi-finals and a Grand Final) with the first heat taking place Saturday 21 January.
The overall Pabandom iš naujo! 2023 schedule will unfold as following:
- 21/01/2022- First Qualifying Round
- 29/01/2022- Second Qualifying Round
- 04/02/2022- 1st Semi-final
- 11/02/2022- 2nd Semi-final
- 18/02/2022- Grand Final
Lithuania in Eurovision
Lithuania has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 22 times since its debut in 1994, when Ovidijus Vyšniauskas finished last, receiving zero points. Lithuania withdrew from the contest, without returning until 1999. LT United’s 6th place in 2006 with the song “We Are the Winners” is Lithuania’s best result in the contest. The country reached the top ten for a second time in 2016, when Donny Montell finished 9th with “I’ve Been Waiting for This Night”.
In 2018 the country was represented by Ieva Zasimaskaite with her emotional ballad song When We’re Old, which finished 12th in the grand final. In 2019 national final winner, Jurij Veklenko defended the Lithuanian colors in Tel Aviv with the song Run With The Lions, but failed to qualify to the final left in the 11th place of the second semi final.
In 2020 The Rood had won the national final with their song “On fire” but never made it to the Eurovision stage after the Eurovision 2020 cancellation due to the coronavirus outbreak. However, the band had the chance to complete their Eurovision journey in 2021, after winning the national selection Pabandom iš naujo 2021 with their song "Discoteque" and went on representing the Baltic nation in Rotterdam where they finished 8th.
In 2022 national final winner, Monika Liu, defended the Lithuanian colors with her song 'Sentimentai' which came 14th in the Grand final with an overall score of 128 points.
News Source/image: LRT
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