As the adults finalize their selection for Eurovision 2023 on Thursday evening’s The Voice of Georgia, Georgia’s kids have begun preparations for Junior Eurovision 2023 by announcing this season’s hopefuls for the sixth season of Ranina. Ranina, the popular Georgian children’s talent show that has been Georgia’s method of selection for Junior Eurovision since 2017, returns for a sixth season, and Georgia’s …
Sixteen became eight as two members of each coach’s team were eliminated in a marathon Semi-Final of The Voice of Georgia. Each contestant performed, and after voting, the leader or largest televote recipient of each group automatically progressed to the Final. Each coach then had the option to save one of the remaining three contestants, and there were a couple of …
Unlike last week, there was no shock elimination as a pre-tournament favorite and Junior Eurovision winner cruised to the next round, with three eliminations and a withdrawal ending this phase of The Voice of Georgia’s live rounds. In this round, Coach Dato Porchidze and Coach David “Dato” Evgenidze’s artists each had to perform a number, with the top four from each team …
There were a couple of surprises in this evening’s first Live Round of The Voice of Georgia, as one pre-contest favorite was eliminated and another two favorites came perilously close. In this round, Coach Stephane and Coach Sopho’s artists each had to perform a number, with the top four from each six artist team progressing to the next round. The artists …
32 became 24 as the first round of eliminations concluded this evening on The Voice of Georgia after each contestant was pitched head-to-head against their fellow teammates in the “Ring round.” Within each team, the coach picked singers to go head to head, with the winner advancing to the next round and allowing rivals to “steal” losing singers. The 24 remaining …
With four audition rounds done, 1TV decided to ring in 2023 in Georgia with the first elimination round of this season’s The Voice of Georgia. Switching from 22:00 on a Thursday to 21:00 on a Saturday, The Voice of Georgia began whittling down the 32 contestants with eight contests on New Year’s Eve. Within each team, the coach picked singers to go …
A former Junior Eurovision winner, a mystery contestant, and a middle-aged trio were among the successful acts to have made it through the third audition round of this season’s The Voice of Georgia. The now 21-year-old Iru Khechanov, who was part of Georgia’s Junior Eurovision 2011 girl group Candy, managed to impress three of the four coaches (all but Stephane turned …
Georgia’s 1TV, owned and operated by Georgian Public Broadcasting (GPB), confirmed today that Ranina had been renewed for a sixth season, and that the popular children’s television show would again be used as a national selection for Georgia’s representative at Junior Eurovision. According to 1TV’s post, “Ranina is looking for participants of the sixth season! If you are 8-13 years old …
It was inevitable that a few familiar Georgian voices would show up to audition for The Voice of Georgia’s auditions, and in today’s audition round, three of the ten auditions shown were aspiring singers who had tried out for Eurovision before. The most familiar name to audition was Georgian Idol 2020 finalist Tako Kakalashvili, who was nicknamed “Queen Tamar” in the early stages as …
Georgia’s search for their representative at Eurovision 2023 got underway this evening with the first episode of Georgia’s edition of The Voice franchise. Based on the participants tonight, it would not be a surprise to see Georgia enter an alternative rock or blues song, given all but one contestant auditioned with a song from those genres. Indeed, the only contestant who …
