Romania: TVR announces the 45 Selecţia Naţională 2022 semifinalists

Romania: TVR announces the 45 Selecţia Naţională 2022 semifinalists
Thursday, 23 December 2021

  • The Romanian national broadcaster, TVR, has announced the 45 semifinalists of the country's Eurovision 2022 national selection. 

    Romania will be determining their Eurovision 2022 hopeful through the show Selecţia Naţională 2022. After receiving 94 submissions, a jury reviewed all the entries and shorlisted 45 of them that progress to the two phase semifinal round. 

    The 45 acts that made it through to the semifinals are: 

     

    The semi-finalists are:

     

    • Alex Parker & Erik Frank & Bastien – “Best of me”
    • Aldo Blaga – “Embers”
    • Alexa – “Hoodies and cold nights”
    • Alina Amon – “Without you”
    • Ana Lazăr – “Youngster”
    • Andra Oproiu – “Younique”
    • Andrea Stocchino – “Avere paura” (To be afraid)
    • Andrei Petruş – “Take me”
    • ARIS – “Do Svidaniya” (Goodbye)
    • Ayona Iordănescu – “Let me come to you”
    • Barbara – “Hypnotized”
    • Bogdan Dumitraş – “Sign”
    • Carmen Trandafir – “Măşti” (Masks)
    • Cezar Ouatu – “For everyone”
    • Ciro De Luca – “Imperdonabile” (Unforgiveable)
    • Claudia, Minodora, Diana – “România mea” (My Romania)
    • Dan Helciug – “241”
    • Dora Gaitanovici – “Ana”
    • Eliza G – “The other half of me”
    • Eugenia Nicolae – “Doina”
    • Fabian Ferrara – “That way”
    • Forţele de muncă – “Hai afară, frate!” (Come out brother!)
    • Gabriel Basco – “One night”
    • Giulia-Georgia Beiliciu – “Find your way”
    • Ivelin Trakiyski – “Neverending”
    • Jessie – “Regret”
    • Kyrie Mendél – “Hurricane”
    • Letiţia Moisescu – “Mirunica”
    • Leyah – “I’ll be fine”
    • Mălina – “Prisoner”
    • Miryam – “Top of the rainbow”
    • MOISE – “Guilty”
    • Oana Tabultoc – “Utopia”
    • Olivia Miheţ – “Fragile”
    • Othello – “You’re worthy”
    • Outflow – “Running in circles”
    • Petra – “Ireligios” (Irreligious)
    • Popa Roberta-Maria – “Indigo”
    • Romeo Zaharia – “Until the fight is over”
    • Silvia Costache – “Save me”
    • Sophia – “Beautiful lies”
    • Stelian – “Remember”
    • VANU – “Never give up”
    • Vizi Imre – “Sparrow”
    • WRS – “Llámame” (Call me)

     

    Notably, among the semifinalists we see Cesar who represented Romania back in 2013 with 'It's my life' which finished 13th in the Grand final. 

    The semifinal stage consists of two rounds. In the first round, from February 5 to 10,  public and a jury will vote for their favorites in order to determine the 20 acts that will qualify to the second round of the semi final. 15 acts will be selected by the jury and 5 acts will be chosen by the public vote. 

    The second round will take place on February 12, 2022,  as a televised semi final show in which the 20 acts will perform their entries. A jury will determine which 10 entries will qualify to the final show. The Grand final is set for March 5, 2022 and its outcome will be decided by a combination of jury and public voting. 

     

    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.

    In 2020 the 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. Unfortunately the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic and Roxen didn't reach eventually the Eurovision stage. 

    However, this year Roxen was internally selected to represent the nation in Rotterdam performing 'Amnesia', which sadly didn't make it to the final. 

     

    News Source/Image:TVR