Yesterday Belarussian broadcaster BTRC announced the participants who will battle it out to see who will represent the country at Copenhagen next year.
Over 100 applications were submitted to BTRC. A panel of experts, consisting mainly of music industry professional, including the 2013 representative Alyona Lanskaya, helped the broadcaster select the 15 14 artists listed below. Entries for the finalists will be announced at a later date.
Matvej Bondarenko
Juri Vashchuk
Alexei Gross
Dariia
Zhanet
Max Lorens & DiDyuLya
Anastasia Malashkevich
Artem Mihalenko
Alina Moshchenko
Band Napoli
Band Nuteki
Nataliya Odintsova
Elena Sinyavskaya
Nataliya Tamelo
Band Switter Boys
Do you know anything about these acts? Can you distinguish a Napoli from a Nuteki, and a Mihalenko from a Moshchenko? If so let us know in the comments box below!
The Belarussian national final is scheduled to take place on 10 January 2014 and will be held in Studio 600 in Minsk. Earlier this year, Alyona Lanskaya performed her entry “Solayoh” at Malmö, finishing 16th in the final with 48 points.
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Manel, the reason why we’ve crossed out Alexei Gross is because it turns out that his entry “If I Could Do It All Again”, has already been publicly performed by another singer. This is against the Eurovision national selection rules.
Therefore, Alexei has withdrawn from this year’s national final and 14 acts will be battling it out, instead of the 15 as originally planned.
Why is Alexej Gross hidden?
Band Switter Boys is a whole Bullshit, seriously, it’s not even funny, they don’t have a talent at all, especially nobody from them a singer, nobody, period.
Max Lorens & DiDyuLya are not bad performers, but not super either.
Never heard about Dariia and Zhanet, may be they are talented, who knows. Hopefully somebody from these girls will perform, because there are beautiful girls in Belarus!
Who cares?
We know that the winner won’t take the prize home. They will either change song or singer. So let’s wait to see who wins = who won’t go to ESC