Moldova: 29 acts progress to the Selecţia Naţională 2022 auditions

Moldova: 29 acts progress to the Selecţia Naţională 2022 auditions
Tuesday, 25 January 2022

  • A total of 29 acts have made it through to the auditions round for Moldova's Eurovision national selection, Selecţia Naţională 2022.

    Teleradio-Moldova (TRM) has released  the 29 acts that have been shorlisted for the auditions of Selecţia Naţională 2022, the show that will select the country's Eurovision 2022 representative. 

    Once the submissions were completed a special jury assessed the entries in order to select those for the auditions to take place on January 29, 2022 in Chisinau. From the auditions it will be decided which acts will advance to the national final which could be decided for  March 5, 2022. 

    The 29 acts that made it to the auditions' stage are: 

    • Annet Smirnova
    • Denis Midone
    • Dianna Rotaru
    • Katy Ryan
    • Misscatylove
    • 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

     

    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