Romania: Six songs are running in the Eurovision 2021 song selection

Romania: Six songs are running in the Eurovision 2021 song selection
Wednesday, 03 February 2021

  • A total of six songs are running in the Romanian internal song selection that will determine Roxen's Eurovision 2021 entry. 

    Following the national broadcaster's announcement that they will be holding an internal song selection to select Roxen's ESC 2021 entry, the Head of Delegation went on revealing that a total of six songs are competing in the song selection. 

    Specifiacally. Liana Stanciu , Head of Delegation, talking on TVR's show Cu Capu'n Zori, confirmed that six songs are Roxen's potential Eurovision 2021 entries. All six candidate songs are in English and will be presented to a jury in order to review them. 

    The jury consists of personalities coming from the radio and music scene, Romanian singers and forme Eurovision participants. The six candidate entries will be sent to each juror to asseess the songs and via a zoom meeting the results will be revealed. 

     

    A few words for Roxen

    Born in Cluj-Napoca as Larisa Roxana Giurgiu, Roxen discovered her passion for music at the age of seven. Signed by Global Records, she was featured on Romanian producer Sickotoy’s “You Don’t Love Me” in August 2019. The single attained commercial success in Romania, reaching number three on the country’s Airplay 100 chart, and being playslisted by radio stations in several territories including France, United States, Russia and Spain. Her debut single “Ce-ți cântă dragostea” was released in the November of the same year, and peaked at number 26 in Romania.

     

    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.

     Last year the song  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.