RTV SLO (The Slovenian national broadcaster) announced today that Ana Soklič’s song will be decided on the 27th of February 2021. Like last year, they’ll use their national final EMA to decide which song Ana will perform at Eurovision 2021. In July, RTV SLO encouraged songwriters to submit songs to be sung by Ana on the Eurovision stage. In the …
Slovenian representatve from Moscow and regional record holder for the most Eurovision perfmormances has been quite busy lately as she has performed on several festival in Croatia. In Šibenik during the Evening of Dalmatian Chansons she graced the stage with a touching ballad Volin kad si tu (Love it when you’re here). It was a huge honor for her to perform at …
Tonight was the night, but alas, due to these uncertain times, we won’t know who will succeed Duncan Laurence as the next Eurovision champion until next year. However, we do know one of the potential names that could be crowned the next winner. RTV SLO (The Slovenian national broadcaster) has tonight confirmed, that Ana Soklič will be given another shot …
That’s right, Eurovision 2020 may not be going ahead like we hoped for, but our “Expert” Panel won’t be going away! This year, 15 members of the ESC United team and our forum have combined to provide our ‘expert’ opinion on all of the hopefuls from this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. As a quick reminder, the rules of our “Expert” …
Another Big Saturday and more countries select their entries for the upcoming contest to be held in Rotterdam. Tonight, we travel to Lubljana, as Slovenia air their national final EMA (Evrovizijska Melodija). The show, hosted by popular comedian Klemen Slakonja (also known to broader audiences as the Slovene Spokesperson in 2011 and the man behind several parody videos), saw the …
Earlier today, we asked #YOU, our loyal readers of ESC United, to vote in our polls and decide who should be chosen to represent Slovenia and Ukraine respectively later tonight. Now, we have our results! In Slovenia, it was a closely fought race, but Lina Kuduzović won our poll with 22% of the vote for “Man Like U”, with second …
Slovenia is deciding their act for Eurovision 2020 tonight. We had a multiple-week show called EMA FREŠ, in december to decide some “newcomer” finalists. We had a show in January where we saw 2 winners of said EMA FREŠ to compete in tonight’s show, but tonight it is time to find out who will represent Slovenia in Rotterdam this year. …
The February 17, 2020 deadline for entry into the Eurovision Young Musicians 2020 contest, to be held on June 21, 2020, in Zagreb, Croatia, has passed, and the final eleven competing nations have been announced by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The 2020 contest, which is being held to coincide with World Music Day on June 21, 2020 in King …
Tonight, the final act of the EMA FREŠ competition took place in Slovenia, as ten rising talents in the Balkan nation competed for two slots in the Slovenian national selection for Eurovision 2020. The participants, who had overcome a number of rounds of online voting in November and December 2019 through the Slovenian national broadcaster’s website, took part in a …
With their selection freshly unveiled, it is about time to discuss one of my all-time favourite countries. Note that I didn’t say “Eurovision countries”. Let us dive in, in medias res, because this Eurovision nation is one you can’t spell without the letters L – O – V – E : SLOVENIA. But like, always, the usual disclaimer: NOTE – …
