Romania: Final Line-up for Selecția Națională 2019
The list of the twelve finalists of the Romanian selection has just been completed after tonight's second semifinal of Selecția Națională 2019.
Selecția Națională 2019 continued tonight with the second semi-final. Twelve acts participated in tonight's show, six of which received the ticket for next Sunday's National Final. Five finalists were chosen by the jury and the sixth one through televoting.
Selecţia Naţională 2019 – Semi-final 2 results
- Ester Peony – "On a Sunday" (Jury qualifier)
- Laura Bretan – "Dear Father" (Jury qualifier)
- Letiția Moisescu and Sensibil Balkan – "Daina" (Jury qualifier)
- Linda Teodosiu – "Renegades" (Jury qualifier)
- Olivier Kaye – "Right Now" (Jury qualifier)
- Aldo Blaga – "Your Journey" (Public vote qualifier, 539 votes)
2 Gents – "Ielele"(295 votes)TMW – "Make Me Your Man"(254 votes)Georgy – "Tears"(191 votes)Xonia – "Discrete"(154 votes)Johnny Bădulescu – "Give Up Now"(142 votes)Echoes – "High Heels On"(141 votes)
Selecţia Naţională 2019 – Final lineup
Combined with last Sunday's Semi-final 1, we now have the lineup for next Sunday's Final of Selecţia Naţională 2019:
- Aldo Blaga – "Your Journey"
- Bella Santiago – "Army of Love"
- Claudiu Mirea – "We Are the Ones"
- Dya and Lucian Colareza – "Without You (Sin ti)"
- Ester Peony – "On a Sunday"
- Laura Bretan – "Dear Father"
- Letiția Moisescu and Sensibil Balkan – "Daina"
- Linda Teodosiu – "Renegades"
- Olivier Kaye – "Right Now"
- Teodora Dinu – "Skyscraper"
- Trooper – "Destin"
- Vaida – "Underground"
Selecţia Naţională 2019
In Selecţia Naţională 2019 there are two Semi-finals and one Final:
- Semi-final 1: 27 January 2019 (Iași)
- Semi-final 2: 10 February 2019 (Arad)
- Final: 17 February 2019 (Bucharest)
12 songs competed in each of the two semi-finals, held in Iași and Arad. 5 finalists were selected by a jury while 1 finalist will be selected via televoting. The Romanian broadcaster TVR has the option to award one wildcard for the final.
At the final in Bucharest the winner – and representative at Eurovision 2019 — will be decided by an international jury in combination with public televoting.
Romania in Eurovision Song Contest
Romania had its debut in 1994, and has been participating 19 times since. They have never won the contest, but came 3rd in 2005 (Luminita Anghel & Sistem - "Let Me Try") and 2010 (Paula Seling & Ovi - "Playing With Fire").
Romania was expelled from Eurovision 2016 due to unpaid dept to EBU, so the winner of Selecţia Naţională 2016, Ovidiu Anton didn't participate in Stockholm.
Since the introductions of semi-finals in 2004, Romania has qualified to the Grand Final 13 out of 14 times, only missed the 2018 qualification.
