Ukrainians compete for Eurovision national final

January 27, 2012 - 17:06 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - 54 singers competed for their place in the Ukrainian Eurovision 2012 national final, eurovision.tv reports.

The competition took place in the studio of NTU where participants gave their performances internally in front of a professional jury. 20 talented singers proceeded to the national final which is scheduled to be held on February 18.

Among the jurors who picked up 20 best entries were Vlad Bahinskyj (a musical producer of NTU), Volodymyr Kozlov (a director of the TV channel RU Music), Victoria Romanova (international relations department) and Ivo Bobul (a singer). After the auditions, Ivo Bobul remarked that he enjoyed his role as a juror and found a lot of female voices very professional.

He named his favorite contestants: Rapira and Masha Sazonova & Tyhon Levchenko.

Apart from 20 candidates from the pre-selection, two artists got wildcards. Thus, there will be 22 contestants in the national final. One of them is a winner of the TV show Show Number One, band Nerealnye. The name of the owner of the second wildcard is still unknown. The second wildcard will go to the singer chosen in the Internet casting on the say.tv platform.