Belgium: VRT announces national selection for Eurovision 2023
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VRT, Belgium's Flemmish speaking national broadcaster, has announced a national selection to determine the country's Eurovision 2023 hopeful.
In Belgium the Eurovision participation is handled in turns between the two national broadcasters, the french speaking RTBF and the Flemmish speaking VRT. The Eurovision 2023 participation lays in the hand of VRT next year, which has opted for a national selection to determine the ESC 2023 representative.
Last time VRT opted for a national final was in 2016 when Laura Tesoro won the 'Eurosong' national final and represented the country in Stockholm.
More details on the format and regulations of the Belgian national selection for Eurovision 2023 are exprected to go public over the next weeks.
Belgium in Eurovision
Belgium is one of the countries to have participated in the Eurovision SOng Contest since its first edition back in 1956. After 30 years the country achieves to win the contest in 1986 with the 13 yo Sandra Kim and her entry “J’aime la vie“.
The country has finished last in the contest 8 times while in two of these occasions didn’t receive any point at all. In 2003 with the group Urban Trad and their song “Sanomi” it almost reached its second victory finishing in the 2nd place, only two points behind Turkey and Sertab Erener with her entry “Every way that I can“.
Although the country has managed to qualify to the final 5 times the last decade, with Loïc Nottet in 2015 and Blanche in 2017 achieving the best results coming 4th in the final, the last two years it hasn’t been that story. In 2018 with Sennek and “A matter of time” , failed to reach the final although the juries ranked her 9th in her semi final. In 2019 internally selected Eliot represented the country in Tel Aviv with his song “Wake up” which failed to reach the grand final.
In 2020 Hooverphonic were internally selected to perform "Release Me" in Rotterdam. Following the cancellation of the contest by EBU due to the coronavirus pandemic, Hooverphonic represented the country in 2021 in Rotterdam with their song 'The Wrong Place" and after qualifying from the 1st semi final show they finished 19th in the final with an overall total of 74 points.
This year, The Voice Belgium winner, Jeremie Makiese flew the flag in Turin, Italy singing 'Miss you' which came 19th in the final with a total of 64 points.
News Source: VRT
Image: EBU/Sarah Loise Bennett
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