Icelandic candidates announced!

The Icelandic broadcaster RUV has revealed the names of the 12 candidates that will be competing at “Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins 2016”!

Check the list below:

• Sigga Eyrún – Kreisí (Crazy)
  Music: Karl Olgeirsson
  Lyrics: Karl Olgeirsson Sigríður Eyrún Friðriksdóttir
• Helgi Valur Ásgeirsson – Óvær (Uneasy)
  Music and lyrics: Karl Olgeirsson
• Erna Mist & Magnús Thorlacius – Ótöluðorð (Unspoken words)
  Music and lyrics: Erna Mist / Magnús Thorlacius
• Erna Hrönn Ólafsdóttir & Hjörtur Traustason – Hugurminner (My mind is)
  Music and lyrics: Þórunn Erna Clausen
• Þórdís Birna Borgarsdóttir & Guðmundur Snorri Sigurðarson – Spring yfirheiminn (All over the world)
  Music: Júlí Heiðar Halldórsson
  Lyrics: Júlí Heiðar Halldórsson / Guðmundur Snorri Sigurðarson
• Alda Dís Arnardóttir – Augnablik (One Moment)
  Music: Alma Guðmundsdóttir / James Wong
  Lyrics: Alma Guðmundsdóttir / James Wong / Alda Dís Arnardóttir
• Karlotta Sigurðardóttir – Óstöðvandi (Unstoppable)
  Music: Kristinn Sigurpáll Sturluson / Ylva Persson / Linda Persson.
  Lyrics: Alma Rut Kristjánsdóttir / Ylva Persson / Linda Persson.
• Ingólfur Þórarinsson – Fátækurnámsmaður (A broke student)
  Music and lyrics: Ingólfur Þórarinsson
• Elísabet Ormslev – Á ný (Again)
  Music and lyrics: Greta Salome Stefánsdóttir
• Greta Salome Stefánsdóttir – Raddirnar (The Voices)
  Music and lyrics: Greta Salome Stefánsdóttir
• Sigríður Eir Zophoniasardóttir & Jóhanna Vala Höskuldsdóttir – Égséþig (I see you)
  Music and lyrics: Sigríður Eir Zophoniasardóttir and JóhannaVala Höskuldsdóttir
• Pálmi Gunnarsson – Égleiðiþigheim (I lead you home)
  Music and lyricsi: Þórir Úlfarsson

The candidates were announced during the broadcasting of  the “Vikan með Gísla Marteini” programme. Some familiar names can be found among the selected ones, such as Greta Salome, who represented Iceland at Eurovision 2012 in a duet with Jonsi, and a few former participants of the Icelandic national selection.

Next year, Iceland will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of “Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins”, one of the biggest TV shows in the country. The 2016 Icelandic national selection will be made up of three shows, two semi-finals and a Grand Final, whose dates are as it follows:

• Semi-Final 1 – 6th of February
• Semi-Final 2 – 13th of February
• Grand Final – 20th February

Three acts will go through to the national final from each semi-final with a seventh finalist being chosen from the non-qualifiers. The songs will be performed in Icelandic language at the semi-finals, but in the Grand Final all the competing songs must be performed in the language that the artist intends to perform the song in Stockholm.