Azerbaijan: Ictimai opens the submission window for Efendi's potential Eurovision 2021 entries

Azerbaijan: Ictimai opens the submission window for Efendi's potential Eurovision 2021 entries
Friday, 08 January 2021

  • Azerbaijan's national broadcaster, Ictimai, has invited composers and songwriters to send in songs in order to select Efendi's Eurovision 2021 entry for Rotterdam. 

    iTV has made an open call for songs by opening the submission window for potential Eurovision 2021 entries. Composers and songwriters that ambition their entry to be selected as Efendi's Eurovision entry,  should send in their music proposals for the country's ESC 2021 hopeful, Efendi, until January 19. 

    Intersted song authors can send in their songs via e-mail at song@eurovision.az 

     In 2020 Icitimai opted for an internal selection once again. Last year Azerbaijan's Eurovision 2020 hopeful was selected among five candidates : Samira Efendi, Laman Dadasheva, Elvin Novruzov, Jabrail Rasulov and Riad Abdulov. Efendi was set to represent the country with her song 'Cleopatra' , which never reached the Eurovision stage as the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic. 

     

    Azerbaijan in Eurovision

    The Land of fire debuted in the contest in 2008 and since then they have been present in every single edition of it, counting a totla of 13 participation.  In 2011 The duo Eldar & Nikki gave the country its one and only victory with their entry Running scared, leading the Eurovision event next year in the capital city of Baku. 

    In 2018 Azerbaijan was represented by Aisel and her entry X my heart, despite a dynamic performance she failed to qualify to the Grand Final. In 2019 Azerbaijan chose Chingiz through an internal selection to represent the country in Tel Aviv with his entry 'Truth', which finished 8th in the Grand final scoreboard.

    While Efendi's Eurovision 2020 journey was interrupted due to the coronavirus outbreak and never had the chance to perform 'Cleopatra' in Rotterdam, iTV decide to stick with the same act giving her the chance to complete her mission in 2021.

    News source: Icitmai TV

    Image: Eurovision.de