Moldova: National selection Live auditions to take place on February 1

Moldova: National selection Live auditions to take place on February 1
Thursday, 23 January 2020

  • Following TRM’s revelation of the 36 candidates in the Moldovian national selections, the national broadcaster revealed the date of the Live auditions in this year’s national selection.

    TRM announced that the live auditions of the candidates will take place on Saturday, February 1. The process will begin at 14:00 CET and will be aired live on TRM2, with the jury determining the country’s next Eurovision representative.

    Lets remember the 36 contestants :

    Che-MD feat Irina Revenco – Adio
    Maria Ciolac – Our home
    Viorela Moraru – Remedy
    Dima Jelezoglo – Do it slow
    LANJERON – Hi Five
    Nicolae Untilă – Call me please
    Vovian – 10 minuni în Moldova
    Maxim Zavidia – Take control
    Valentin Uzun si Irina Kovalsky – Moldoviţa
    Diana Popa – Believe me
    Danny Cruise – My love
    Olea Roşu – Alive
    Catarina Sandu – Die for you
    Ray Barc – I’m shy
    Tudor Bumbac – Te-am vazut în vis pe tine
    Georgeta Burlacu – Răspunde!
    Sasha Bognibov – Big brother
    Katerina S – We are done
    Sasha Letty – Summer of love
    Live Beat – Love me now
    Valeria Paşa – It’s time
    Liusia Znamensky – Love no more
    Julia Ilienko ft. Mishel Dar – Tears
    Natalia Gordienko – Prison
    Petronela Donciu si Portărescu Andreea – We will be legend
    Carolina Rakoviţă – Dancing in the sunrise
    Angel Kiss – My Own Queen
    Angel Kiss – You are my dance
    Lavinia Rusu – Touch
    Irina Kit – Chain Reaction
    Alexandru Cibotaru – Cine te-a facut să plîngi
    Midone Denis – Like a champion
    Pasha Parfeny – My wine
    Lave – Wildfire
    Diana Brescan – Let’s go together
    Diana Rotaru – Dale dale

    Some of the songs are already availiable on Youtube. However you can list to all the candidate songs here . Among the candidates we see a few Eurovision past participants such as Natalia Gordienko (Loca – 2006 – 20th place), Pasha Parfeny (Lăutar – 2012 – 11th place) and Geta Burlacu (Α century of love – 2008 – 12th in the semi final ).

    Behind the song Die For You by Catarina Sandu is the greekswedish composer Dimitris Stassos who had written the Greek ESC 2012 entry Aphrodisiac for Eleftheria Eleftheriou and the entry La noche es para mí for Soraya (Spain 2009).

    National selection 2020

    This year Moldova has adopted a different format to determine its Eurovision act and entry. The candidates will perform in auditions before a jury that will rate them , with 12 points being the maximum points to award. Auditions will be aired live but the public will have no role in it. Once the audition is over it will be decided wheather there will be an addtional round or the act with the highest points will be the next Moldovian representative.

    The Eurovision story so far

    Moldova participated in Eurovision for the first time in 2005 and hasn’t missed a year since then. Its best results came in 2017 when Sunstroke Project with Hey Mama finished 3rd. In 2018 the country was represented by DoReDos anf their entry Lucky Day, which finished 10th in the final. In 2019 Anna Odobescu flew the flag in Tel Aviv performing her power ballad “Stay” but despite her amazing vocal performance didn’t make it to the grand final.