Today the voting begun for the SRF part of the Swiss national final for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. The online portal was opened last month and closed for submissions last week. Today people from all over the world are able to vote for their favourites, these votes will be combined with that of the professional jury to decide which songs will be performed in the audition stage.
166 songs have been submitted from all across the world, with some well-known names sending songs such as:
Omar Naber who you will know from ESC Slovenia 2005 HERE
Barbara Berta ESC Switzerland 1997 HERE
Ramona Nerra from The Voice of Germany HERE
As well as some lesser known acts such as:
Ylva & Linda performing a song that was in the Russian National Final for JESC 2015 HERE
Il-Bidu (aka me) I have entered two songs, hoping to fly the ESCUnited.com flag in Stockholm HERE & HERE
SERYAN who has a modern style song hoping to bring back glory to Switzerland HERE
Voting will last until the 16th of November at 8:00am. to listen to all the songs you can click HERE
These songs will join those selected by other Swiss broadcasters and the best songs will be whittled down and performed in the televised final when the Swiss representative of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest will be decided on the 13th of February.