Azerbaijani representative for Eurovision 2010 has been picked - PHOTOS

Today was the day Azerbaijan made their choice for Oslo, for the 55th Eurovision Song Contest. It was an evening full of excitement and tension but finally it was Safura who won the Azerbaijani ticket to Europe's favourite TV-show.

The finalists of the Azerbaijani national selection were chosen exactly a month ago, read all about it in our article about the Azerbaijani semi-final. In the meantime, their national broadcaster, iTV, decided they would all need new songs. So, a total of four different entries were chosen and Milk & Kisses, Safura and Maryam Shabanova could perform three each.

So, the three finalists were set to perform three out of the songs Drip Drop (written by Stefan Örn and Sandra Bjurman), Under My Skin (by Stefan Örn and Phil Anquetil), Soulless (by Anders Lundström) and Cancelled (by Stefan Örn, Negin, Random).

Safura performed Drip Drop, Under My Skin and Soulless, Maryam the same songs and Milk& Kisses performed Drip Drop, Under My Skin and Cancelled.
And the winner is...

When the participants all had done that on the stage set in the Buta Palace in Baku, the jury, which consisted of people with impressive backgrounds had to take a decision. But until they did their hard work, we saw several interval acts, including their last year's participant (or half of it!) Aysel who also sung the entry Always.

The tension was turned up a notch and even more and then, it was time to reveal who would carry the Land of Fire's torch in Oslo. It was Safura to win, but her song will be chosen on the 19th of March. Congratulations!

According to the Head of Azerbaijani Delegation, Adil Kerimli, the jury, all four songs presented during the national final were outstanding and performed very strongly, so the jury decided to scrutinize the professional studio recordings of the songs prior to choosing the winner.

Long preparations for Safura!

Safura will now go to Ukraine for a training period and preparation for the album recording. After that Safura will travel to Sweden to record an album with Swedish partners who will participate in the album recording. Tentatively in two weeks Azerbaijani representative will be back to Kiev again to shoot the music video for the entry and work on the staging for the Eurovision Song Contest.


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