Romania: The 20 Semi-Finalists of Selecţia Naţională 2022 revealed

Romania: The 20 Semi-Finalists of Selecţia Naţională 2022 revealed
Friday, 11 February 2022

  • TVR has revealed the 20 semifinalists that continue in the Romanian national selection for Eurovision 2022. 

    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 songs  progressed to the two phase semifinal round. Eventually after one withdrawal 44 acts went into a jury and public voting. 

     Five qualifiers were selected by an online voting held within 24 hours, while fifteen qualifiers were selected by a jury. Thus, the 20 act that will take part in the televised semi-final show of Selecţia Naţională , set for February 12 , are: 

     

    • Alex Parker & Erik Frank & Bastien – “Best of me” 
    • Aldo Blaga – “Embers” 
    • Andra Oproiu – “Younique” 
    • Andrei Petruş – “Take me” 
    • ARIS – “Do Svidaniya” (Goodbye) 
    • Cezar Ouatu – “For everyone” 
    • Claudia, Minodora, Diana – “România mea” (My Romania) 
    • Dora Gaitanovici – “Ana” 
    • E-an-na – “Malere” 
    • Eliza G – “The other half of me” 
    • Eugenia Nicolae – “Doina” 
    • Gabriel Basco – “One night” 
    • Kyrie Mendél – “Hurricane” 
    • Mălina – “Prisoner” 
    • MOISE – “Guilty” 
    • Oana Tabultoc – “Utopia” 
    • Petra – “Ireligios” (Irreligious) 
    • VANU – “Never give up” 
    • Vizi Imre – “Sparrow” 
    • WRS – “Llámame” (Call me)

     

    During the televised semi-final on February 12, 2022,  the 20 acts will perform their entries while a jury will determine which 10 acts 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