North Macedonia: MRT to hold auditions tomorrow for Junior Eurovision 2022

North Macedonia: MRT to hold auditions tomorrow for Junior Eurovision 2022
Wednesday, 22 June 2022

  • The auditions that will determine North Macedonia's Junior Eurovision 2022 representative are set to take place tomorrow. 

    The North Macedonian national broadcaster, MRT, will be holding tomorrow special auditions through which MRT will select internally this year's Junior Eurovision act.

    The auditions will take place at the MRT studios in Skopje from 10:00 local time, in which young singers ages 9 to 14 are eligible to give a shot at representing the country in Yerevan the coming December. Each candidate will have to perform two songs of their own choice.

     

    North Macedonia in Junior Eurovision

    North Macedonia, previously presented in the contest as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (F.Y.R. Macedonia), has participated in the competition 15 times since their debut in the inaugural 2003 contest missing out only the editions of 2012, 2014 and 2020. 

    In the first edition of the contest back inl 2003 in Copenhagen, Denmark, represented by the song "Ti ne me poznavaš" performed by Marija and Viktorija. The song placed 12th in a field of 16 countries.

    The country's best performance at the contest has been 5th place, achieved twice to date – in 2007 when North Macedonia was represented by the song "Ding Ding Dong" performed by Rosica Kulakova and Dimitar Stojmenovski, and in 2008 with "Prati mi SMS" performed by Bobi Andonov.

    In 2019 in Gliwice-Silesia the nation was represented by Mila Moskov with her song "Fire" which finished 6th, marking the country's best result since 2008 when they finished 5th. 

    While in 2020 the country withdrew from the competition due to the covid-19 pandemic restrictions, in 2021 make its comeback in Paris with Dajte Muzika singing 'Green forces' who score a top 10 placing for the landlocked country finishing 9th with a total of 114 points. 

     

     

    News Source: MRT

    Image: Junioreurovision.tv

     

     

     

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