Romania: The 10 Selecţia Naţională 2022 finalists determined

Saturday, 12 February 2022

The 10 finalists that will be competing in Romania's national selection for Eurovsion 2022 have been determined after this evening's semi-final show.

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, in this evening's semi final show, which was presented by Anca Mazilu and Bogdan Stănescu , while Ilinca hosted the Green Room, 20 acts competed on stage to win one of the 10 tickets to the final.

Namely, the 20 semifinalists were:
- 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)
The result will be determined only by jury voting with the jury formed by the following members:
- Alexandra Ungureanu
- Ozana Barabancea
- Randi
- Cristian Faur
- Adrian Romcescu
The ten contestants that qualified and will be performing their entry in the Grand final on March 5, 2022 are:

Alex Parker & Bastien – “Best of me”
Andrei Petruş – “Take me”
Claudia, Minodora, Diana – “România mea”
Dora Gaitanovici – “Ana”
Gabriel Basco – “One night”
Kyrie Mendél – “Hurricane”
MOISE – “Guilty”
Petra – “Ireligios”
VANU – “Never give up”
WRS – “Llámame”

News source: TVR

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