Moldova: TRM shares details on the Selecţia Naţională 2022 auditions format

Moldova: TRM shares details on the Selecţia Naţională 2022 auditions format
Friday, 28 January 2022

  • Moldova's national broadcaster,TRM, has shared the details of the live auditions formula used for the country's Eurovision 2022 selection,Selecţia Naţională 2022.

    TRM received the record breaking number of 51 entries for  Selecţia Naţională 2022, the show that will select the country's Eurovision 2022 representative. Onse the submissions were assessed a special jury shorlisted 29 acts to move on to the next stage of the selection, the auditions' phase of “Audieri Live”. 

    A total of 28 acts ( after the withdrawal of Misscatylove) will go through live auditions  to take place on January 29, 2022 in Chisinau and  which will be aired live on Moldova 2 and online and will durate over 3 hours. The auditions will begin at  13:00 CET  and are expected to take untill 16:00 CET, during which the 28 shorlisted acts will perform their entries aiming to convince the jury that they deserve to take part in the national final show. 

    The 28 acts to take part in the auditions are: 

    • Annet Smirnova
    • Denis Midone
    • Dianna Rotaru
    • Katy Ryan
    • Naminal
    • Ricky Ardezianu
    • Sasha Bognibov
    • The Tramps
    • Trio Eva
    • Y-Limit
    • Bumbac Tudor
    • Carolina Gorun & Danieli Shvets
    • Emilia Vlas
    • Lemonique
    • Marcela Scripcaru
    • Maxim Zavidia
    • Mihaela Andrei
    • Zdob și Zdub & Fratii Advahov
    • Lanjeron
    • Pelageya Stefoglo
    • Ana Cernicova
    • Angel Kiss
    • Diana Elmas
    • Ferum
    • Sendrei
    • Valeria Barbas
    • Viola Julea
    • Viorela Moraru

     

    From the auditions it will be decided which acts will advance to the national final which could be decided for  March 5, 2022. All of the songs  taking part in the audition are available to listen HERE. Among the artists shorlisted we see Zdob și Zdub who had represented Moldova at Eurovision 2005 and 2011. Also Denis Midone who competed in Junior Eurovision 2012 is making a try to reach the Eurovision stage.

     

    Moldova in Eurovision 

    Moldova participated in Eurovision for the first time in 2005 and hasn’t missed a year since then. Its best results came in 2017 when Sunstroke Project with Hey Mama finished 3rd. In 2018 the country was represented by DoReDos anf their entry Lucky Day, which finished 10th in the final. In 2019 Anna Odobescu flew the flag in Tel Aviv performing her power ballad “Stay” but despite her amazing vocal performance didn’t make it to the grand final.

    In 2020, Natalia Gordienko was set to represent the country with the song 'Prison' but unfortunately the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 outbreak. Natalia however was invited back for Eurovision 2021 in Rotterdam, where she competed with her song "Sugar" which after qualifying to the Grand final finished 13th with 115 points in total. 

    News Source/image: TRM