Ukraine: Oleksandr Balabanov with his song 'Vidkryvay' is off to Junior Eurovision 2020

Ukraine: Oleksandr Balabanov with his song 'Vidkryvay' is off to Junior Eurovision 2020
Monday, 07 September 2020

  • Ukraine is the second country to determine its Junior Eurovision 2020 rerpesentative, as Oleksandr Balabanov has won the national selection and will be representing the ex Soviet nation in Warsaw with his song Vidkryvay .

    Oleksandr Balabanov will be Ukraine's next JESC act as he turned out to be the winner of the national selection, even before the public voting was over, as he had scored a high result in the jury voting. With a total of eleven acts competing in the final, a jury and the public had to determine the final winner. 

     

     

    The jury voting results came out as following: 

    Oleksandr Balanbanov - 5 votes 

    Olena Usenko - 2 votes 

    Yaroslav Politov - 1 vote 

    With the public vote awarding only one point for the winner it is clear that no other contestant can reach Olexandr even if  as a winner of the public voting. The jury of the national selection was formed by the following members: 

    • Jamala (Winner of the ESC 2016) 
    • Alina Pash (Singer) 
    • Taras Topolya (Soloist in Antytila) 
    • Ruslana Khazipova (Dakh Daughters member) 
    • Dmytro Shurov ( Soiloist in Pianoboy)
    • Larysa Kluyevska ( UA: radio promin music editior) 
    • Timur Miroshnychenko ( JESC commentator and TV presenter) 
    • Lyubov Morozova ( Music critic - UA: Kultura host) 

     

    A few words about Oleksandr 

    The 13-year-old act was born in Donetsk. He has started singing from the age of 4 in a folk singing group! When he turned 8, he moved to the capital of Kyiv with his parents so he can attend the music classes at the art school there in order to evolve his talent as a pop vocalist as well.
    He has won about 40 national and internations festivals and competitions already and is fluent in English already, all while studying German and Turkish as well! He has experienced been a finalist in the Ukrainian preliminary round for the JESC twice, namely in 2018 and 2019. In addition, he won the Slavianski Bazar Kids in 2018 and was at the Ukrainian The Voice Kids successfully

    Meanwhile Oleksandr will be the first male act to represent Ukraine at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest since 2009, when Andranik Alexanyan represented the country in the edition Timur Miroshnychenko hosted!

    Oleksandr will sing ‘Vidkryvay’ which means ‘Open’ in Ukrainian! You can listen to his entry below:

     News Source: Escbubble.com

    Photo cover: JuniorEurovision.tv/twitter