Finally — after a seemingly endless period of speculation — LRT have finally revealed the participants who will take part in the longest running Eurovision preselection Eurovizijos Atranka. The competition is going to be both heated and somewhat crowded — a total of 49 acts will take place this year.
The list includes several returning acts and some very well-known names in Lithuania. The stars that shine brightest in the media and among fans are Edgaras Lubys, Jurgis Brūzga, Monika Marija, Tomas Sinickis, and the group Saulės kliošas to name a few.
You may not remember the name Jurgis Didžiulis, but if he slips into a shiny pair of silver shorts you’ll remember the face — and maybe the legs!
He represented Lithuania at Eurovision nine years ago in Oslo with the group InCulto with a song that played on stereotypical fears of immigrants and Eastern Europeans.
This time he’s back as a solo artist and will no doubt want to improve on the group’s 12th place finish in the semis with “Eastern European Funk”.
Eurovizijos atranka 2019 participants
- Aldegunda
- Algirdas Daumantas Ciūnys
- Allen Cichoo
- “Antikvariniai Kašpirovskio dantys”
- Arvydas Kriščikas
- Audrius Petrauskas
- Banzzai
- Dagna Kondrotaitė
- Donata Virbilaitė
- Edgaras Lubys
- Elizabeth Olshey
- Emilija Gogolytė
- Emilija Valiukevičiūtė
- “Filtered Tools”
- Gabriela Ždanovičiūtė
- Gabrielė Rybko
- Giedrius Nakas
- “Glossarium”
- Gražvydas Sidiniauskas
- Indrė Juodeikienė
- Jurijus Veklenko
- Jurgis Brūzga
- Jurgis Didžiulis
- Justina Budaitė
- Justina Žukauskaitė
- “La Forza”
- “Laimingu būti lengva”
- Lukas Bartaška
- “MaNNazz”
- Matas Ligeika
- Migloko
- Monika Marija
- “Original copy”
- Paulina Paulauskaitė
- “Queens of Roses”
- Rūta Statkevičiūtė
- Šarūnas Mačiulis
- “Saulės kliošas”
- Simona Klušienė
- Sofi
- Soliaris
- “Tiramisu”
- Tomas Sinickis
- “Twosome”
- Valdas Lacko
- Valdemars Petersons
- Valerija Iljinaitė
- Viktorija Vyšniauskaitė
- Živilė Gedvilaitė
Eurovizijos Atranka 2019 will be start filming on December 20 and will begin airing on January 5. The selection will consist of four heats followed by two semi finals and the grand final on February 23.
What do you think? Who from the 49 acts are you the most excited to see in the preselection? Let us know!
Hope Gretta Zazza comes back next year.
No Silvija Pankunaite this year… 🙁
Let Edgaras have his chance already
Too many! Some kind of trash just can’t be recycled, adding them to the final cut is waste of time.
Why 49? What kind of number of entries is that? I find it weird… Why not 50 or 48?
Saul?s kliošas was brutally robbed this year, but I hope they win next year, they deserve it!
Yes me too
Plot twist: “La Forza” will sing a song titled “Elina Nechayeva”
why is this so funny LOL
A reverse Warholian expedition
Nesiuskit tikrai sito pidero
Negražu taip kalb?ti…
I can see Lithuania and Hungary winning soon. They are on the right track i feel :). Montenegro and Macedonia are on the opposite track i feel with many bad decisions in their national selections every year.
Macedonia and Montenegro don’t have an arena where to host the contest, Lithuania has one of the biggest indoor arenas in Europe, but let’s not forget they’ve never cracked the top 5.
It’s still to be seen smaller countries winning the contest. Can that happen for real? Remember that Estonia & Latvia both won before 2004. Maybe the contest has grown too much & every year only a few countries are in the run for the victory. Hungary winning? Not with Orban there, I’m afraid.
Lithuania would be lucky if they won. Hungary are probably the most likely to win soon, among those who never got it.
Other countries like Montenegro and Macedonia just can’t cope, even the EBU would probably stop them from winning (with the help of the juries).
there’s a participant called ‘La Forza’ ?? i’m skksshsjskakj
How could this happen? My queen Iveta is busy being fabulous and releasing some really good stuff lately. And there is no word about that, here on Wiwibloggs! You should definitely check this out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkgy1lCV1U4
No Paula ?
Saules Kliosas are back <3 <3
We NEED a modern song in Lithuanian language at Eurovision. PLEASE lithuania!!
No Greta Zazza or Kotryna Juodzevi?i?t? :'( gonna look forward to hearing all 49 songs though as the last Eurovizijos edition was terrific!
Ugh…49 contestants? Just, why?
Two-thirds will be garage productions… I wish they’d just cut down the trash and make a quality 20-song selection ugh
La Forza sounds interesting
La FoRzA LMAO
elina’s impact
Im happy saules kliosas is back. Last year her song was pretty good but it sounded like a demo.