The Icelandic public TV station revealed more details concerning this season’s edition of their well-known Eurovision national selection process ”Söngvakeppnin”, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2016.
Eurovision.tv informs: ”The national selection of Iceland for the Eurovision Song Contest,Söngvakeppnin, is one of the biggest TV-events in Iceland. They are celebrating its 30th Anniversary next year, “so we are diving into the preparations with big enthusiasm!” shared their broadcaster RUV”.
As we previously reported some days ago , RÚV opened the box for submissions until the 2nd of November at 11:59 CET -the most remarkable part of it: non-Icelandic songwriters will be allowed this year in the competition-. However, collaboration is still allowed, as non-Icelandic songwriters can participate in such way that two thirds (2/3) of the song and one half (1/2) of the lyrics must be by Icelandic composers/lyricists.
Then, an internal jury panel will narrow all collected applications to twelve, which will be divided into two semifinals. The process itself will not have major changes, as 3 acts from each semifinal and a special wildcard chosen by the jury will feature the grand final, making a total of 7 acts competing for the right to represent Iceland in Stockholm. Further details about the venues and ticket sale will be announced shortly.
Regarding to the language issue, the songs must be sung in Icelandic language during the semifinals but if the song is intended to be performed in English at the Eurovision, in case it wins, it will keep the original lyrics in the grand final as it happened with Maria’s Unbroken or Sunday’s Feathers in 2015.
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Iceland has taken part at Eurovision since 1986 getting the best places in 1999 (Selma – All out of Luck) and 2009 (Yohanna – Is It True?), both came 2nd. Last year, they were represented by María Ólafsdóttir and the song “Unbroken”, but they didn’t qualify for the grand final.
Will the situation change for them this year? Stay tuned!
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