Romania: Roxen to perform "Amnesia" at Eurovision 2021

Romania: Roxen to perform
Thursday, 04 March 2021

  • The Romanian Eurovision 2021 hopeful, Roxen, has released the song she will be performing in Rotterdam, titled "Amnesia". 

    After last year's unfortunate cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest TVR decided to stick with their Eurovision 2020 hopeful and invited back Roxen for Rotterdam in 2021 . The boradcaster decided to an internal song selection in order to determine Roxen's Eurovision 2021 entry. With the pandemic still going on and  the social distancing restrictions implemented, TVR decided to abandon this year the national selection format used in previous editions, marking Romania's first time to select the country's Eurovision entry internally through a jury.

    The members that made up the jury to select the song are: 

    • Luminita Anghel (Eurovision 2005 representative)
    • Andrei Tudor (Composer and songwriter of Eurovision 2008 entry)
    • Liana Stanciu ( Head of Delegatiion)
    • Lucian Ştefan (Global Records)
    • Bogdan Păun (Founder and Director of NGM Creative)
    • Liviu Elekes ( Composer, director, producer)
    • Bogdan Pavlică (Director of Top Music on RRA)
    • Dan Manoliu (Producer and artistic  director)
    • Gabriel Scîrlet (Head of Music at TVR)

    Roxen's entry 'Amnesia' is a modern song that moves within the same field of gentle sound we saw in her previous ESC entey "Alcohol you". The song features Roxen's familiar tone while her vocals fit in with the song's  personal sound, conveying the personal story's sensitivity behind the lyrics. 

    The story speak of girl that is fighting all her fears and insecurities try to gain control of herself and accomplish an inner balance that will allow to deal with the surrounding circumstances. 

    Roxen stated to Eurovision.tv on her entry: 

    “The last year was a bit of a rollercoaster, filled with really good moments and some low points also. In the end, what kept me going the most was that I had some really great projects. Amnesia somehow manages to give a voice to all repressed feelings and to the people whose voices haven’t been heard, in a way that for me is incredibly pure. I would like to thank everyone who has been by my side all this time and has offered me all the support that I needed. ROXEN is made up of pieces from each and everyone of you.”

     

    A few words for Roxen

    Born in Cluj-Napoca as Larisa Roxana Giurgiu, Roxen discovered her passion for music at the age of seven. Signed by Global Records, she was featured on Romanian producer Sickotoy’s “You Don’t Love Me” in August 2019. The single attained commercial success in Romania, reaching number three on the country’s Airplay 100 chart, and being playslisted by radio stations in several territories including France, United States, Russia and Spain. Her debut single “Ce-ți cântă dragostea” was released in the November of the same year, and peaked at number 26 in Romania.

     

    Romania in Eurovision 

    Romania made its first attempt to compete in the contest back in 1993 for the Eurovision Song Contest. After competing in the preliminary  semi-final in Slovenia with Dida Dragan, failed to win one of the three spots that led to the Eurovision stage in Millstreet, Ireland

    Romania officially debuted at the the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994 with Dan Bitman and has participatted a total of 23 times since then. Its best reuslts were scored in 2005 with Luminita Anghel and in 2010 with the duo Paula Seling & Ovi achieving in both cases the honorable 3rd place in the Grand Final. In 2016 the country received a penalty by the EBU due to its broadcaster’s overdue debt and was forced to withdraw from the contest, although it had chosen its Eurovision entry and act for Stockholm.

    In 2018 Romanian band The Humans won the Selecţia Naţională and performed Goodbye on the stage of Altice Arena in Lisbon. For the first time in its history the country didn’t make it to the final, breaking a record of qualifying to each grand final since the semi finals were introduced. In 2019 the country was represented by Ester Peony with her entry On a Sunday but failed to reach the grand final.

     Last year the song  Roxen was internally selected to represent Romania at ESC2020 with the song was “Alcohol You”, whose production was by Viky Red, the music being signed by him along with Ionuţ Armas and  written by Ionuţ Armas and Breyan Isaac.

     

    News Source: TVR/Wiwibloggs/ Eurovision.tv

    Image: Amesia Music video