In tonight’s Georgian Idol semi-final Tornike Kipiani won for the fifth consecutive week, solidifying his position as the artist to beat at the grand final to be held on New Year’s Eve. Tonight’s tour theme was duets featuring Georgian Idol’s finalists from last year and Georgia’s Junior Eurovision 2017 representative Grigol Kipshidze. Tornike deployed his duet partner, last year’s runner-up …
The below editorial features the opinions and views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of #escYOUnited as a whole, Eurovision or the EBU. If you are going to try impress the judges at the Georgian version of the Idol franchise, there’s no better place to start than Little Richard’s “Long Tall Sally.” Though Star of Georgia …
[AdSense-B] Before Oto Nemsadze was announced the winner of Georgian Idol and sent to Tel Aviv for Eurovision 2019, Georgia’s TV-1 announced that Georgian Idol was a ratings bonanza. So it comes as no surprise that Georgian Idol will again be used as the method of selection for the artist to represent Georgia at Eurovision 2020 in [as-yet-undetermined-city-but-we-are-doing-tours-of-these-cities], the Netherlands. …
The rubber hit the road today as we embarked on the very first set of jury rehearsals for Semi-Final 1. 50% of the act’s score was determined by the performances in the Jury Rehearsal tonight, and the acts went up in the exact order they will at tomorrow night’s Semi-Final 1: 🇨🇾 Cyprus: Tamta – “Replay” 🇲🇦 Montenegro: D mol …
[AdSense-B] Eurovision fans will have been treated to two separate Shavnabada displays this week, with their appearance as backing singers in Georgia’s Eurovision 2019 entry by Oto Nemsadze, “Keep on Going,” and in the fourth week of რანინა (Ranina), Georgia Public Broadcasting’s method of selection for Junior Eurovision 2019 in Gliwice, Poland, on November 24, 2019. Four “tours” of different …
It’s back! The (in)famous ESC United “Expert” Panel is returning once again! While we don’t claim to be professionally qualified to judge anything, we certainly have strong opinions, so our staff and editors got together to review all 41 of the songs taking part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 which will take place in Tel Aviv, Israel this May. …
[AdSense-B] Filming for Georgia’s Eurovision 2019 entry, “Sul tsin iare” by Georgian Idol winner Oto Nemsadze, continued this weekend as locations shifted from the Black Sea town of Maltakva to the crossing between Georgia and the Russia-backed breakaway Republic of Abkhazia: Enguri Bridge. The location will be very familiar to viewers of this season’s Georgian Idol, as Idol judge Natia …
[AdSense-B] What’s good for the adults is also good for the kids as Georgia is selecting its representative for Junior Eurovision 2019 in Gliwice, Poland with a similar process to Oto Nemsadze’s victory in Georgian Idol. Starting this evening, Georgia kicked off its search for its Junior Eurovision 2019 entrant with the childrens’ talent show რანინა (Ranina) the method of selection. …
[AdSense-B] In a stunning beat-the-odds performance, Oto Nemsadze has won Georgian Idol and will represent Georgia at Eurovision 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Going into the Georgian Idol final, Liza Kalandadze was both the ESC United fan favorite and betting company favorite, but with an emotionally charged performance obliquely referencing the situation in South Ossetia and the discord that situation …
[AdSense-B] Pity poor Giorgi Pruidze as he received no votes and #YOU overwhelmingly voted for Liza Kalandadze over Pruidze and the other two Georgian Idol finalists Oto Nemsadze and Giorgi Nakashidze. Going into tomorrow’s final, we knew that Kalandadze and Nemsadze, who had each won two rounds of Georgian Idol, would top our poll, but we did not know that …
