Romania: TVR reveals the song selection committee for Roxen's Eurovision 2021 entry

Monday, 01 March 2021

• The Romanian nantional broadcaster, has uveiled the members the song selection committee, which will determine the Roxen's entry for Rotterdam. 

  After last year's unfortunate cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest TVR decided to stick with their Eurovision 2020 hopeful and invited back Roxen for Rotterdam in 2021 . The boradcaster decided to an internal song selection in order to determine Roxen's Eurovision 2021 entry.

  With the pandemic still going on and  the social distancing restrictions implemented, TVR decided to abandon this year the national selection format used in previous editions, marking Romania's first time to select the country's Eurovision entry internally through a jury.

  Today the Romanian broadcaster unveiled the people behind the committee to select the song which Roxen will be singing in Rotterdam next May. They are: 

  • Luminita Anghel
  • Andrei Tudor
  • Liana Stanciu
  • Lucian Ştefan
  • Bogdan Păun
  • Liviu Elekes
  • Bogdan Pavlică
  • Dan Manoliu
  • Gabriel Scîrlet

  Mwanwhile the Romanian ESC hopeful posted on a Instagram giving a hint on her upcoming Eurovision entry: 

  

   

  Romania in Eurovision 

  Romania made its first attempt to compete in the contest back in 1993 for the Eurovision Song Contest. After competing in the preliminary  semi-final in Slovenia with Dida Dragan, failed to win one of the three spots that led to the Eurovision stage in Millstreet, Ireland

  Romania officially debuted at the the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994 with Dan Bitman and has participatted a total of 23 times since then. Its best reuslts were scored in 2005 with Luminita Anghel and in 2010 with the duo Paula Seling & Ovi achieving in both cases the honorable 3rd place in the Grand Final. In 2016 the country received a penalty by the EBU due to its broadcaster’s overdue debt and was forced to withdraw from the contest, although it had chosen its Eurovision entry and act for Stockholm.

  In 2018 Romanian band The Humans won the Selecţia Naţională and performed Goodbye on the stage of Altice Arena in Lisbon. For the first time in its history the country didn’t make it to the final, breaking a record of qualifying to each grand final since the semi finals were introduced. In 2019 the country was represented by Ester Peony with her entry On a Sunday but failed to reach the grand final.

   Last year the song  Roxen was internally selected to represent Romania at ESC2020 with the song was “Alcohol You”, whose production was by Viky Red, the music being signed by him along with Ionuţ Armas and  written by Ionuţ Armas and Breyan Isaac.

   

  News Source: TVR