Ukraine: Go_A's Eurovision 2021 entry to be selected internally by a jury

Ukraine: Go_A's Eurovision 2021 entry to be selected internally by a jury
Friday, 29 January 2021

  • The Ukrainian national broadcaster, UA:PBC has announced that Go_A 's Eurovision 2021 entry will be selected internally by a jury. 

    Despite the previous Ukrainian folk band's statement that they have ready their Eurovision 2021 entry, the Ukrainian broadcaster had other plans for the ESC 2021. The broadcaster revealed the name of the committee that will be deciding the song that will fly with Go_A to Rotterdam and confirmed that the band will submit two songs to the jury

    The jury consists of the following members: 

     

    • Jamala: Eurovision 2016 winner
    • Evgeny Filaton: Member of the group 'The Maneken'
    • Ruslan Kvinta: Music producer
    • Yarloslav Lodigin: Member of the UA:PBC board
    • Dmitry Khorkin: Μember of the UA:PBC board

     

    The jury memeber will award points to each of the candidate songs and the one with the highest points to be the next Ukrainian ESC 2021 entry. This will be the first time since 2004 where the public opinion will have no influence to the song selection process. 

    Go_A to compete in the first semi final on May 18 in Rotterdam. 

     

    Ukraine in Eurovision

    Ukraine participated for the first time at the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 when Oleksandr Ponormayov represented the country Hasta la vista. Ukraine has won the Eurovision trophy two times, in 2004 with Ruslana and in 2016 (Jamala). Following both vicotries the country hosted the contest in 2005 and 2017. The country has achieved remarkable results as it has reached 9 times the top 10 places in its 15 year ESC history.

    In 2018 Ukraine was represented by Vidbir 2018 winner, Melovin with his entry Under the ladder, achieving a 17th place in the Grand Final.In 2019 Ukraine saw a dramatic national selection Vidbir, which saw Maruv winning with her entry Siren Song. After a serial of dramatic developments between the broadcaster and the winner eventually Ukraine withdrew from the Eurovision 2019.

    Last year after two semi final rounds and a total of 16 candidates, the Ukrainian national final for Eurovision 2020, Vidbir 2020, crowned winner the group  Gо_A  and the entry  “Solovey” . Unfortunately their Eurovision journey stayed incomplete as the contest was cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak.