Azerbaijan: Nadir Rustamli drops his Eurovision 2022 song 'Fade to Black'

• Nadir Rustamli who will be representing Azerbaijan at Eurovision 2022 has dropped his song for Turin titled "Fade to Black". 

  Last but not least Azerbaijan Eurovision 2022 hopeful complete the line up of songs for Turin releasing his song 'Fade to Black'.

  Ictimai Tv has internally selected Nadir Rustamli to represent the Land of Fire at the 66th edition of the Eurovision Song Contst in Turin this May.A total of 300 songs had been submitted after  ITV's open calls for songs. Six of them were shorlisted in order for a jury panel to select the final song that Nadir will be performing in Turin representing Azerbaijan.  

  Nadir's Eurovision entry is a work of Andreas Stone, Anderz Wrethov, Sebastian Schub, Thomas Stengaard who are behind the music and lyrics of the song, while in the direction we see Isa Melikov. 

  Nadir will be performing in the first half of the 2nd semi final show in Turin on May 12, 2022. 

   

  Lyrics

  Stay
  The story barely started
  Can’t you
  Stay
  Do you really want no part of this
  Oh so sweet
  Reverie
  You back off slowly through the door
  You always go and blame the weather
  The weather

  It hurts so fast
  When love goes bad
  Until at last
  We fade to black

  And I’m numb, numb
  Numb, numb

  Wait
  I need some time to fix this can’t you wait ?
  We can’t afford to miss this
  You back off slowly through the door
  You always go and blame the weather
  The weather

   

  It hurts so fast
  When love goes bad
  Until at last
  We fade to black

  And I’m numb, numb
  Numb, numb

  We're living in a memory
  The present is the price I pay
  Fade to black
  Fade to black

  It hurts so fast
  When love goes bad
  Until at last
  We fade to black

   

   

  A few words for Nadir

  Nadir is an Azerbaijani singer,  born on July 8, 1999 in the city ​​of Salyan , Azerbaijan . From 2005 to 2016 , he studied at the secondary school No. 3 in the Salyan region. In 2016 , he was admitted to the Azerbaijan University of Tourism and Management and in 2021 he graduated from that university. He started playing music as a child.

  During his school years , he studied piano and solfeggio at the Gulu Asgarov Music School for 7 years. In 2017, Student Spring participated in the National Song Festival and won second place. In 2019, he participated in the same competition again and won the competition. In 2019, he represented Azerbaijan at the Youthvision International Song Contest, winning second place among 21 countries. 

  In 2021 , he participated in the 'Voice of Azerbaijan' project broadcast on the Public TV channel of Azerbaijan. In the first round, he sang "Writing'S on the wall" and two judges turned to Nadir Rustamli. He chose to compete in the team of Eldar Gasimov, Azerbaijan's Eurovision 2011 winner with Elle. Then, in the next stage, he sang "Beggin" together with Amir Pashayev Eldar Gasimov chose between Nadir and Amir and kept Nadir Rustamli in his team. Nadir Rustamli qualified for the next stage by singing "Khatiradir" in the 1/8 final. In the finale, "This is the end,"He sang "Running Scared" with Eldar Gasimov . In the final, 1 out of 4 participants would be the winner of the project by SMS voting. Nadir won the project with a rate of 42.6%

   

  Azerbaijan in Eurovision

  The Land of fire debuted in the contest in 2008 and since then they have been present in every single edition of it, counting a totla of 13 participation.  In 2011 The duo Eldar & Nikki gave the country its one and only victory with their entry Running scared, leading the Eurovision event next year in the capital city of Baku. 

  In 2018 Azerbaijan was represented by Aisel and her entry X my heart, despite a dynamic performance she failed to qualify to the Grand Final. In 2019 Azerbaijan chose Chingiz through an internal selection to represent the country in Tel Aviv with his entry 'Truth', which finished 8th in the Grand final scoreboard.

  While Efendi's Eurovision 2020 journey was interrupted due to the coronavirus outbreak and never had the chance to perform 'Cleopatra' in Rotterdam, iTV decide to stick with the same act this year, giving her the chance to complete her mission in ESC 2021.

  Efendi flew to Rotterdam where she competed in the first semi final performing 'Mata Hari' and after qualifying to the Grand final she finished 20th with 65 points. 

   

  News Source: ITV/Eurovision.tv

  Image: Music video of 'Fqde to black'

   

   

   

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