Armenia to select its entry for 2009 Eurovision Song Contest tonight
armradio.am
14.02.2009 14:30
Armenia will select its entry for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest
tonight. Twenty-one songs will be presented in a national final, and
the winner will be picked by a combination of SMS voting and an expert
jury.
Having internally selected the representative for the 2008 Eurovision
Song Contest, the Armenian public broadcaster decided to organize an
open preselection again this year. Singers and songwriters were
requested to send in their entries till the beginning of February, and
the participants of the national final were announced only two days
ago. So far, the titles of the songs to be presented have not been made
public. The order of appearance in the show is as follows:
Iren
Hasmik Margaryan
The Beautified Project
Gayane Arzumanyan
Marta Bulbulyan
Inga & Anush Arshakyanner
Oxygen
Artyom Hakobyan
Shprot
Hayk Kasparov
Arman Harutyunyan
Guj
Lilu
Davit Minasyan
Mher
Dorians
Bambir
Hripsime Hakobyan
Davo
Tigran Petrosyan
Sergey Grigoryan
In tonight’s show, the TV public will be asked for their verdict by SMS
voting, the results of which will be added to the votes of an expert
jury. The national final will be broadcast at 21:30 Yerevan time, and
it can be watched via satellite on Armenia 1 TV.
Armenia has taken part in the Eurovision Song Contest three times since
2006, and so far, all Armenian entries have been in the Final of the
Contest. The best placing to date was reached by Sirusho in 2008 – she
came fourth with her song Qélé Qélé.