Lithuania: Pabandom iš naujo 2022 contestants unveiled

Tuesday, 07 December 2021

• The Lithuanian national broadcaster, LRT, has unveiled the contestants of the Eurovision 2022 national selection, Pabandom iš naujo 2022.

  Lithuania will be selectiong once again their Eurovision hopeful through a national selection and precisely via the national selection format of Pabandom iš naujo 2022. 

  During the submission period, more than 50 acts applied to take part in the national selection. A committee after checking if the submissions comply with the rules, assessed the 50 entires and shorlisted 36 to compete in the shows of Pabandom iš naujo 2022.

  LRT went on revealing the 36 participants of the Lithuanian nationan selection for Eurovision 2022. The 36 candidates that ambition to represent the country at Eurovision 2022 are: 

  1. Aldegunda
  2. Artūras Aleksiejus – Alekas
  3. Augustė Vedrickaitė – Augustė
  4. Basas Pegasas
  5. Clockwork Creep
  6. Elonas Pokanevič
  7. Emilijana
  8. Emilija Valiukevičiūtė – Emilija V
  9. Erica Jennings
  10. Gabrielė Goštautaitė
  11. GABREA
  12. Gebrasy
  13. Geleibra
  14. Gintarė Korsakaitė
  15. Ieva Zasimauskaitė
  16. Joseph June
  17. Justė Kraujelytė
  18. Justin 3 feat. nanaart
  19. Lolita Zero
  20. Mary Mo
  21. Mėnulio fazė
  22. Monika Linkytė
  23. Monika Liu
  24. Moosu X
  25. Cosmic Bride
  26. Queens of Roses
  27. Rūta Loop
  28. Sun Francisco
  29. Titas ir Benas
  30. Urtė Šilagalytė
  31. Vasha
  32. Viktorija Faith
  33. Viktorija Kajokaitė
  34. Vilija Matačiūnaitė
  35. Voldemars Petersons & the Break Hearters
  36. Živilė Gedvilaitė

  Among the candidate we see four past Eurovision participants. Namely,  Erica Jennings ( ESC 2001), Vilija Matačiūnaitė (ESC 2014), Monika Linkytė (ESC 2015) and Ieva Zasimauskaitė (ESC 2018) are making a new attempt to reach the Eurovision stage in Turin.

  In 2022 the selection will not last longer than 6 shows: three pre-selection shows, two semi-finals and agrand final. The first round of the national selection is scheduled hit the screen on January 8, 2022.

  The outcome wil be determined by a combination of jury and public voting (50% share each). While the jurors will not be pre- released , the jury results will be shown only at the end of each qualifying show in order not to influence the public voting.  The money received by LRT during the selection for the audience voting, together with other financial support from the public broadcaster, will be allocated to improve the performance of the winner of the selection.

   

  Lithuania in Eurovision 

  Lithuania has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest  21 times since its debut in 1994, when Ovidijus Vyšniauskas finished last, receiving zero points. Lithuania withdrew from the contest, without returning until 1999. LT United’s 6th place in 2006 with the song “We Are the Winners” is Lithuania’s best result in the contest. The country reached the top ten for a second time in 2016, when Donny Montell finished 9th with “I’ve Been Waiting for This Night”.

  In 2018 the country was represented by  Ieva Zasimaskaite with her emotional ballad song When We’re Old, which finished 12th in the grand final. In 2019 national final winner,  Jurij Veklenko defended the Lithuanian colors in Tel Aviv with the song Run With The Lions, but failed to qualify to the final left in the 11th place of the second semi final.

  In 2020 The Rood had won the national final with their song “On fire” but never made it to the Eurovision stage after the Eurovision 2020 cancellation due to the coronavirus outbreak. However, the band had the chance to complete their Eurovision journey in 2021, as after winning the national selection Pabandom iš naujo 2021 with their song "Discoteque" went on represeting the Baltic nation in Rotterdam where they finished 8th. 

   

  News Source: LRT

  Image: ESC-Plus