Tonight: Watch Iceland's Söngvakeppnin 2022 kick off with the 1st Semi-Final

Saturday, 26 February 2022

• The Icelandic national selection for Eurovision 2022 kicks off this evening with the first semi final of Söngvakeppnin 2022.

  Iceland will be selecting their Eurovision 2022 through the show of Söngvakeppnin 2022 after a year's break with the internall selection of Dadi Freyr. A total of 160 songs were submitted  during the submssion period,  which marks a new record number for the national selection and could easily be justified by last year's successful participation in Rotterdam. 

  A special committee shorlisted 10 entries that will be competing in the national selection, which will consist of two semifinals and one grand final show. Five acts will compete in each semi final heat with the public voting to determine two qualifiers from each semi final. In addition the jury will choose one more entry to advance to the final show from the non-qualifiers of the semifinals. 

  The first set of five contestants to compete in this evening's 1st semi final show are: 

  1. Amarosis – “Don’t you know”
  2. Stefán Óli – “Ljósið” (The light)/ “All I know”
  3. Haffi Haff – “Gía” / “Volcano”
  4. Stefanía Svavarsdóttir – “Hjartað mitt” (My heart) / “Heart of mine”
  5. Sigga, Beta & Elín – “Með hækkandi sól” (With the rising sun)

   

  You can listen to all the 1st semi-final entries of the Icelandic national selection for Eurovision 2022 RUV's website. Björg Magnúsdóttir, Jón Jónsson and Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir will have the honor to host the first semi final show. 

   

  How to Watch

  The 1st semi final show of Söngvakeppnin 2022 is set to hit the screen at 20:45 CET and you can watch it live  here.

   

   

   

  News Source: RUV

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