Ukraine – Our featured artist of today is Zlata Ognevich of the Ukraine. It was third time lucky for Zata this year after 2 unsuccessful years of etering the Ukraine final. Zlata was born on 12th January 1986 in Murmansk, in the extreme northern part of Russia. She grew up in the Crimean city of Sudak, in the south of Ukraine. Read more about her here. (more…)
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Ukraine: Meet Zlata Ognevich
Posted: May 4, 2013 by hulluna in Eurovision Song Contest 2013, UkraineTags: Eurovision Song Contest, Ukraine, Zlata Ognevich
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Ukraine: Gravity Remixes Released
Posted: May 4, 2013 by hulluna in Eurovision Song Contest 2013, UkraineTags: Eurovision Song Contest, Zlata Ognevich
Ukraine – Zlata Ognevich has released the official dance remix of her Eurovision Song Contest entry ‘Gravity‘. The dance remix is recorded partially in the language Nakatonka, which was apparently used in the very original version of the song. Listen to the remix here. There is a club edit as well as a radio edit. You can download the various versions on SoundCloud here.
Ukraine: New Version and Video of ‘Gravity’ Online
Posted: March 11, 2013 by hulluna in Eurovision Song Contest 2013, UkraineTags: Eurovision Song Contest, Ukraine, Zlata Ognevich
Ukraine - Ukraine have this evening released the official video of their song ‘Gravity’. The fantasy based video with lots of special effects,including unicorns, butterflies and mystical worlds, backs up a revamped version of the song which will be performed by Zlata Ognevich in May. Check the video out here.
Ukraine: Zlata Ognevich to Malmö!
Posted: December 23, 2012 by Sekhmet Morgan in Eurovision Song Contest 2013, Ukraine
Ukraine – Earlier today was held by Ukrainian broadcaster NTU the national final for te 2013 Eurovision Song Contest hosted in Malmö and Zlata Ognevich won both the jury and the viewers’ vote! She’ll represent Ukraine with “Gravity” in Malmö. Find out more here! (more…)
Tonight: Ukraine’s National Final!
Posted: December 23, 2012 by Sekhmet Morgan in Eurovision Song Contest 2013, UkraineUkraine - Tonight the Ukrainian broadcaster NTU will host the national final to select the country’s entry for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Malmö. 52 acts went through a casting on the 21st and 20 out of them were selected for the final. Find out more here. (more…)
Ukraine: Date and Details Revealed
Posted: November 23, 2012 by Sekhmet Morgan in Eurovision Song Contest 2013, Ukraine
Ukraine - It was already known by Ukrainian broadcaster NTU that the National Final to select the country’s entry for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest would be held in December this year, but now the date of December 23rd has been confirmed. More details on this selection program as well, which you can read here. (more…)
Ukraine – The Ukraine’s representatitve, Gaitana, has sadly been subjected to racist comments by far-right in her country. According to the Global Spin blog which can be found here, Yuriy Syrotyuk, a high-ranking member of the right-wing ultranationalist Svoboda (Freedom) Party made the comments to the Kyiv Post. He said Gaitana, who has a Congolese father, “ is not an organic representative of the Ukrainian culture.”
Ukraine – The national final has just ended in Kiev and Gaitana has been chosen as the representative for Eurovision 2012 with “Be My Guest“. 21 acts fought it out, with voting split 50-50 between public and jury. Public voting was by SMS, with only one vote per phone. Anggun, France’s representative and SinPlus, Switzerland’s, both performed on the show. (more…)
Ukraine – The final line-up for Ukraine’s national final has been announced and Matias has been disqualified. His producer, Vlad Bahinskyj, was among the jury panel during the internal pre-selection. Max Baskih went through to the final as the wildcard, after receiving most votes on the Internet. The final will take place on Saturday at 11.30am (CET), and you can watch it on Eurovision.tv. (more…)
Ukraine – The Ukrainian national broadcaster has revealed 20 songs that will compete in the country’s selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. The national final will be held on February 18. Another two acts will be added to the list through wildcards. One will be the winners of the show “Show Number 1″, the group Nereal’nye and the other will be given to the winner of an online voting at the platform say.tv (more…)
Ukraine: Renata Shtifel Competes With Song By Alyosha
Posted: December 26, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in Ukraine
Ukraine – Renata Shtifel is hoping to represent the Ukraine at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest 2012 after she has submitted the song “Malaja” for the Ukrainian national broadcaster’s national selection. The lyrics were written by Alyosha, who represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010. The composition is by Vadim Lisitsa, who also produced Alyosha’s Eurovision entry “Sweet people”. (more…)
Ukraine: 21 Acts to Compete in National Final
Posted: December 24, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in Ukraine
Ukraine – The Ukrainian national broadcaster NTU has revealed that a total of twenty-one acts will compete in the country’s national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. 19 acts will be selected by a jury of experts out of the submissions made to NTU. One place is reserved for the winner of Inter TV Channel’s Show Number 1 and he last place will be filled by the winner of a web contest which will be hosted by the new Ukrainian social network say.tv. (more…)
Ukraine – One of the countries notorious for their chaotic selection process, has revealed its plans for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 today: Ukraine. Artists interested in representing the Eastern European country in Baku can submit their entries to the Ukrainian national broadcaster until December 25. A panel of music experts will then select the semi-finalists. 20 artists will compete for a place in the final, 19 places are filled by artists chosen by the judges and the 20th place will be filled by an artist selected through Inter Channel’s show Number 1. (more…)
Ukraine – After voting fraud allegations against the winner of the Ukrainian national final Mika Newton, the Ukrainian broadcaster NTU decided to hold another national final this Thursday with the Top 3 from the original one: Zlata Ognevich, Mika Newton and Jamala. Yesterday Jamala decided not to participate in the new selection and today Zlata Ognevich also announced that she has no intention of participating again, which leaves us with Mika Newton. (more…)
Ukraine – The drama in Ukraine continues as Jamala announced today that she will not be taking part in the second national final this Thursday. Due to voting fraud allegations against the winner Mika Newton, NTU, the Ukrainian national broadcaster, had decided to hold another national final with the Top3 of the previous one: Jamala, Mika Newton and Zlata Ognevich. Now Jamala has ruined these plans by announcing her withdrawal through a press release this afternoon. “I’m happy that 3 times more people voted for me than for the artist, (more…)
Ukraine: Voting Fraud – New National Final with Mika, Jamala, Zlata On March 3
Posted: February 28, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in Ukraine Ukraine - It seems like things haven’t changed over the last year. The results of the national final last Saturday, in which Mika Newton was selected as the Ukrainian representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 were annulled. Since Yesterday Voting Fraud allegations by leading media sites had caused a scandal in Ukraine. The final result was decided by a mixture of televotes, internet votes and jury voting. Mika Newton won all three of those but now allegations of voting fraud have arisen: (more…)
Ukraine – This Saturday Mika Newton was surprisingly chosen as Ukraine’s Eurovision representative – A decision which has caused a major upheaval. According to several media sites the result of the final could be rigged. The final result was decided by a mixture of televotes, internet votes and jury voting. Mika Newton won all three of those but now allegations of voting fraud have arisen: (more…)
Ukraine sends “Mika Newton – Angel” to Eurovision
Posted: February 27, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in Ukraine Ukraine – The results are coming in minute by minute now. Ukrainians decided that Mika Newton should be the artist representing their country in Germany with the ballad “Angel”. Mika Newton won all types of voting: SMS, televote, jury and internet votes all favoured the young singer. The second place went to Zlata Ognevich , while the big favourite Jamala came 3rd. Newton is a Ukrainian singer from the city of Burshtyn. She leads a rock band whose other members are known as Uncle Fe, Snow, Andrew and “Loco” Vitalii. Their debut album Anomaliya (Anomaly) was released in 2005. (more…)
Ukraine – After the longest selection process of the 2011 season, Ukraine will finally decide whom to send to Germany. 19 artists will compete for the Ukrainian ticket to Düsseldorf. Anastasia Prikhodko who represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, as well as several past national final entrants, will be returning to the national final stage. The favourite at this point is “Jamala” with her entry “Smile”. See the list of participants: (more…)
Eurovision Recap (26): Eastern Perestroika
Posted: February 13, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, FYR Macedonia, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine
Recap – This Eurovision season it seems to turn into a certainty that Eastern European countries love to change dates, selection formats and even line-ups they announced before.Here some examples (and also some national final line-ups) : (more…)
Ukraine - Jamala, one of the finalists of this year’s Ukrainian Eurovision selection has just released her preview video for her entry “Smile”. I know that she has not won yet and that it is a bit partial to give her this exposure, but I just liked the sparkling creativity of the song and the video does not disappoint either. Jamala flies through a cartoon, trick world (just as in her song, in which she “visits” different countries). Watch the video here: (more…)
Ukraine: Withdrawal due to financial troubles?
Posted: January 24, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in Ukraine Ukraine – There were rumors published by ESCToday today that stated that the Ukraine might have to withdraw from the Eurovision Song Contest due to financial issues between the EBU and the national broadcaster NTU. The channel has to pay 2 million euro of debt to the European Broadcasting Union, which has threatened to exclude the country from international events, such as the Eurovision Song Contest. (more…)
Ukraine – Another 5 acts qualified from the third semi-final in Ukraine tonight. The big Ukrainian final will be held February 27. Two of my personal favourites qualified: Jamala with her unconventional Jodl-Amy Winehouse song “Smile” and Daria Medova with the very conventional ballad “Infinity”. Alex Matias who was supposed to perform in this semi-final had to withdraw due to health issues. See all qualifiers and videos: (more…)
Ukraine – The second semi-final has just ended in Ukraine and 5 more lucky qualifiers have been chosen. 21 competitors were already chosen in prequalification rounds that were initially supposed to be the semi-finals. Now NTU has added another three semi-final to the selection process for Düsseldorf to reduce the finalists to 15. Tonight 8 acts competed and 5 were chosen by a jury of experts. Among them is Anastasia Prikhodko, who represented Russia in 2009. Here is the full list of qualifiers: (more…)
Ukraine -Apparently NTU, the Ukrainian national broadcaster, has changed its selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. The shows that have been broadcast the last couple of Sundays and which were supposed to be semi-finals have now been turned into quarter-finals. The first actual semi-final was broadcast today. First the qualifiers (from all artist that the jury hadn’t chosen) from the SMS voting were announced, then the first semi-final started . Here is are the qualifiers from tonight: (more…)
Ukraine – Last week the last qualification round of the Ukrainian selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest in Düsseldorf was aired. Apparently there will be another show tonight. There is no information about the content of the show. They could reveal the winners of the televoting: In each semi-final 7 acts competed and 3 qualified by means of jury. Another one will qualify through televoting, but these acts have not been disclosed yet. It may also be the first of 3 semi-finals (More probable). (more…)
Ukraine: Denis Povali, Jamala and Tatiana Vorzheva qualify
Posted: November 28, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in UkraineUkraine – Tonight the last (prerecorded) semi-final of the Ukrainian selection was broadcast on 1TV. The last four weeks 12 artists already qualified from the first four semi-finals and tonight another 6 competed (Masha Sobko had withdrawn before the show). From every semi-final three competitors qualified by means of jury voting and one participant will qualify by televoting. The names of the latter will be announced in the course of the next week. Here are the qualifiers selected by the jury tonight: (more…)
Ukraine – Tonight the last semi-final of the Ukrainian selection will be aired on 1TV. The last four weeks 12 artists already qualified from the first four semi-finals and tonight another 7 will compete. From every semi-final three will qualify by means of jury voting and one participant will qualify by televoting. The names of the latter will be announced at the end of the semi-final procedure. The semi-final will be broadcast at 17:00 CET. The participants tonight are: (more…)
Ukraine - Tonight the fourth semi-final of the Ukrainian selection was broadcast on 1TV and three more artists qualified for the final in Kiev. The last three weeks nine artists already qualified from the first, second and third semi-final and tonight another 7 will compete. From every semi-final three will qualify by means of jury voting and one participant will qualify by televoting. The names of the latter will be announced at the end of the semi-final procedure. Here are the qualifiers: (more…)
