Bulgaria's song for Eurovision 2022 released: "Intention"
The first song for Eurovision 2022 has just been released. Intelligent Music Project will represent Bulgaria with the song "Intention" in Turin, Italy
No time to lose! The song that Intelligent Music Project will take to Italy to represent Bulgaria at Eurovision Song Contest 2022 has been released.
It's called "Intention" and was first premiered during Bulgaria's BNT morning show "Denyat zapochva s Georgi Lyubenov". As expected, taking in consideration Intelligent Music Project's repertoire, the song is a fast paced rock tune.
"Intention" is written by Milen Vrabevski.
Intelligent Music Project
It was back in 2010 when Milen Vrabevski established the music production company Intelligent Music with the aim of popularizing the Bulgarian music and culture. Shortly after, he announced the creation of the "Intelligent Music Project", a rock collaboration that would feature several popular names within the Rock landscape.
As of today, the band has released six albums and featured members such as Nathan East, John Lawton, Tim Pierce, Simon Philips, amongst many others. The members mentioned have under their repertoire collaborations with Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, Stevie Wonder, Toto and many more.
The six group members going to Eurovision 2022 in Italy are the lead singers Ronnie Romero and Slavin Slavchev, Bisser Ivanov on guitar, Stoyan Yankoulov (Bulgaria 2007 and 2013) on drums, Ivo Stefanov on keyboards and Dimiter Sirakov on bass.
Bulgaria in Eurovision Song Contest
Bulgaria has been participating in Eurovision Song Contest 13 times, but with mixed success. They have a 2nd, 4th, 5th, 11th and 14th place on their Eurovision account, and the other 8 years they didn't qualify for the Grand Final.
The best result was 2017's 2nd place (Kristian Kostov - Beautiful Mess), and this was also one of the five times they qualified for the Grand Final out of 13.