The song contest "Junior Eurovision-2016" has ended, the final of which took place on November 20 in Malta. Russia submitted a very strong line-up of participants to the competition, but the victory went to a performer from another country of the former Soviet Union.
Who won the Junior Eurovision 2016
The winner of the "Junior Eurovision-2016" was won by a ten-year-old singer from Georgia Mariam Mamadashvili, who performed the composition Mzeo ("The Sun"), which was estimated by the jury and the audience at 239 points.
What is known about the winner of the "Junior Eurovision-2016"
Mariam Mamadashvili was born in Tbilisi, she has been singing and playing the piano since the age of four, she is a pupil of the famous Tbilisi music studio "Bzikebi Studio".
Mariam is the winner of many national and international competitions, a regular participant in TV shows, plays in the theater, and several years ago the girl was entrusted with the performance of the Georgian anthem on the country's Independence Day. Since 2015, Mariam has been living in the USA, where she continues her musical and acting education.
Mariam won the Junior Eurovision 2016 contest held by Georgian Public TV. After that, she returned to Tbilisi, where she prepared for a trip to Malta. Mariam wrote her contest song herself together with a famous Georgian composer Giorgi Kukhianidze.
Previously, Georgia has twice won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest: with the group Bzikebi (Osy) in 2008 and with the musical group Candy in 2011.
What place did Russia take
In the Junior Eurovision 2016, the second place went to the song duet from Armenia: Mary Vardanyan and Anahit Adamyan received 232 points for the song Tarber (“Various”)
"Bronze" and 209 points went to the Italian performer fiamme boccia, who sang the song Cara Mamma ("Dear Mother").
Russia in the final of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016 was represented by the project " living water» consisting of: Sofia Fisenko, Kristina and Madonna Abramova and Sasha Abrameytseva. The quartet of Russians took fourth place.
Who are Russian performers
The Living Water team is a project of the Academy of Popular Music Igor Krutoy". The performance was directed by a well-known producer Lina Arifullina. At the competition, the girls sang the song "Water of Life", which tells what happens in the soul of a teenager when he grows up.
A little about the members of the quartet.
Sofia Fisenko is 14 years old. She has been singing since childhood, is fond of dancing, is a laureate of numerous music competitions. Sophia was directly involved in the creation of the song "Living Water".
Sisters from Yekaterinburg Christina and Madonna Abramov are 12 and 11 years old respectively. The eldest, Christina, not only famous singer, but also a multiple winner of international competitions and world and Asian cups in sports dancing. In the summer of 2016, Christina and Madonna Abramov were in the lead in the TOP-10 of Russian MUZ-TV with the Love dance video.
Alexandra Abrameytseva is 13 years old. She sings almost from the cradle, and now she is improving her vocal skills at the music school. Taneeva and studies at the gymnasium with in-depth study of the English language.
Alexandra is the holder of the highest title Super Grand Prize Universe of the international competition Prince & Princess of the Universe 2016. She is the winner of many Russian and international music competitions. The girl maintains her own blog, composes music and loves to travel.
The question of who is the winner of the Junior Eurovision 2016 worried all viewers, because there were many worthy performers. In 2016, Georgia, Armenia and Italy distinguished themselves on the stage. Who became the first?
3rd place: appeal to mother from Italy
Completed the top three Junior Eurovision 2016 Fiamma Boccia from Italy with the song "Cara Mamma", which translates as "Dear Mother". The girl entered the stage without additional support, and her performance was accompanied by neutral animation. Fiamma undoubtedly boasts a very clear beautiful voice, but not only he won the hearts of the audience. The emotions that Fiamma delivered were clearly real and made every listener feel the content of the song. It was thanks to her emotionality that the young performer brought the country an honorable third place.
2nd place: such a different Armenia
With a lag of only 7 points, Armenia was on the second line of the competition. From the country, Anahit Adamyan and Mary Vardanyan came on stage, who performed the song "Tarber", which translates as "Different".
Anahit Adamyan and Mary Vardanyan participants from Armenia
The organization of the performance from Armenia was distinguished by the highest professionalism. Each girl was supported by two back-up dancers, creating two opposing groups. The outfits of one group were made in the classic combination of white and black, while the second group was full of bright colors. At some point, the audience was blinded by spotlights, and, following the song, all the girls on the stage united into a single whole and managed to change outfits to white with sequins.
Such a transformation caused a real storm of emotions in the hall. This was also reflected in the ratings - the adult and expert jury agreed that the duet deserved second place, and the children's jury even put them on the first line. The sum of points showed that Armenia was a little short of victory.
Georgia is the winner of Junior Eurovision 2016
Mariam Mamadashvili represented Georgia at the competition Junior Eurovision 2016 of the year with the song "Mzeo". The girl began to study vocals at the age of four and already became the winner of the "Spring Bells" when she was only five. It is not surprising that it was she who began to represent Georgia. Perhaps Mariam would take part in international competition much earlier, but the rules on expanding the age limits from 9 years old came into force only in 2016. At the time of the song, the girl was only 10 years old.
Mariam took the stage alone. Her simple White dress was complemented by a short cape of light snow-white flowers. The song itself was accompanied by the same flower animation. Despite the purest vocals and a clear understanding of the meaning of the composition, not everyone liked the performance of the performer from Georgia. The children's jury awarded the girl only sixth place in the competition. Experts put it even lower - at the eighth position. However, the situation changed radically thanks to the voting of the adult jury, in which Mariam received the highest marks from eight countries at once.
Russia at Eurovision 2016 presented by Sofia Fisenko as part of the group " The water project" with the song "Water of life". Unfortunately, the quartet was not able to take a prize, but their performance was very worthy. In the final, Sophia and the group took fourth place, overtaking Australia only in high performance in a separate vote, because both countries scored the same number of points.
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Junior Eurovision 2016, final results
Mamadashvili scored 239 points, Mary Vardanyan and Anahit Adamyan, representing Armenia, are on the second line (two hundred and thirty-two points), and the third place belongs to Italian singer Fiamma Boccia (two hundred and nine points).
The winner of the competition was born in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, she has been singing since the age of four. Mamadashvili is a pupil of the Bzikebi Studio (their wards became winners in 2008), as well as music school named after Evgeny Mikeladze, where she studied piano. Mariam has repeatedly won intra-Georgian competitions, and a few years ago she sang the Georgian anthem at the celebration of Independence Day. In 2014, she played in the play "Anna and I". Since 2015, Mariam has been living with her parents in the United States of America, where she studies vocals, acting skills and dancing at the renowned Broadway Method Academy.
Junior Eurovision 2016, who won?
In recent months, Mariam Mamadashvili was in Tbilisi and Malta, where she was preparing for the competition. The song for Eurovision was written in collaboration with composer Georgy Kukhianidze. Previously, Georgia won the Junior Eurovision twice: the first time the victory was brought to the country by the Bzikebi (Osy) group in 2008, when the Eurovision was held in Cyprus, then in 2011, the Candy group with the song Candy Music won at competition in Armenia.
Eurovision 2016 final: results, who won
In Stockholm on May 14, 2016 passed. According to the results of the competition, she won Ukrainian singer Jamala, who scored 534 points. The second was the representative of Australia Demi Im (511 points), and Russian singer Sergey Lazarev earned 491 points and is in third place, despite the fact that he received the most votes from the audience.
It is noteworthy that the Russians highly appreciated the performance of Jamala, who represented Ukraine, and the Ukrainian audience gave the majority of votes to Sergey Lazarev.
In turn, Azerbaijan received 10 points from the Russian judges, 8 - Malta, 7 - France, 6 - Great Britain, 5 - Georgia, 4 - Cyprus, 3 - Latvia, 2 - Australia and 1 - Hungary.
Russian judges did not give anything to the Ukrainian performer Jamala. A similar outcome was expected from the Ukrainian side, which did not give a single point to the Russian Federation.
The national jury of Ukraine gave 10 points to Lithuania, 6 to Belgium, 8 to Latvia and 7 to Azerbaijan. The highest rating - 12 points - was given to Russia by Greece, Cyprus, Belarus and Azerbaijan.
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Eurovision 2016: final results, places
How the places were distributed at Eurovision 2016 can be found below.
- Ukraine - 534 points
- Australia - 511 points
- Russia - 491 points
- Bulgaria
- Sweden
- France
- Armenia
- Poland
- Lithuania
- Belgium
- Netherlands
- Malta
- Austria
- Israel
- Latvia
- Italy
- Azerbaijan
- Serbia
- Hungary
- Georgia
- Spain
- Croatia
- Great Britain
- Czech
- Germany
The results of "Eurovision 2016" commented in the State Duma of the Russian Federation
The results of Eurovision 2016 were politically biased. This was stated to TASS by the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture Elena Drapeko ("Fair Russia").
“Partly this is a consequence of the propaganda war of the information that is being waged against Russia. It's about about the general demonization of Russia - about the fact that everything is bad with us, that our athletes are doping, our planes violate the airspace - this, of course, affects," Drapeko said.
She also expressed the opinion that Russia "should definitely continue to take part in Eurovision, because Lazarev sang wonderfully."
"His number was very good, and this high level was seen by half the world. This proves that everything is not as they say about us, so I think that he should be thanked, a wonderful song," the deputy noted.
The politician also highlighted good performance Ukrainian artist Jamala.
"A wonderful voice, a wonderful performance ... but it seems to me that this is not a song that young people will sing, that they will listen to many times - it will be forgotten," the first deputy chairman of the committee is sure, who called Jamala's victory "a fact of injustice," - "after all, everyone saw how wonderful Lazarev sang."
Eurovision 2016 - the results of the competition were unexpected for many. The best performances were chosen by joint voting of viewers and jury members according to the new voting system. What is the result of the new voting system?
In 2016, the total score was increased to 4872 due to changes in the voting procedure. Naturally, for such large numbers, a total score of less than 100 points is very poor. According to the results of Eurovision-2016, this is the result shown by 6 countries:
- On the 21st line was the rock band Minus One, who represented Cyprus with the composition "Alter Ego" - they scored only 96 points.
- Following Cyprus is Spain with the singer Barej and the song "Say yay!" - 77 points.
- On the 23rd position was Croatia and its representative Nina Kralić, who performed "Lighthouse". Not only was she one of the worst in the competition with only 73 points, but she also earned the Barbara Dex Award for the most ridiculous costume.
- Joe & Jake from the UK performed "You're not alone" and stayed at number 24 with 62 points.
- The Czech singer Gabriela Guncikova with the song "I stand" did not deserve a single audience vote, and the result for her was 41 points from the jury members.
- On the last line is Germany and her representative Jamie-Lee with the song "Ghost" - she scored only 11 points, and her costume took second place in the list of the most ridiculous.
Thus, the results of Eurovision 2016 showed that the countries of the "Big Five" again did not distinguish themselves by successful performances - more than half of them were on the list of the worst.
Results of Eurovision 2016 - interesting performances
The final table of results of Eurovision 2016 showed that many performers can present very interesting and original numbers to the audience, which distinguishes them from the general mass of participants.
On the 4th line was from Bulgaria with the song "If love was a Crime", which she performed in a mixture of English and Bulgarian. The girl's outfit was on the list of the most ridiculous, but it was very memorable thanks to the light inserts.
The host country of Eurovision 2016 Sweden was presented, whose performance was extremely simple. He was supported only by a light screen, spilling hundreds of lights, like stars. Frans earned his 5th place with the composition "If I were sorry" solely due to his vocal abilities.
On the 6th line was France - the best result of the "Big Five" this year. Amir Haddad performed the song "J'ai cherche", performed in English and French, accompanied by "space" animation.
Iveta Mukuchyan from Armenia with the song "LoveWave" complemented her amazing vocals with smoke, fire, a rather revealing outfit, as well as a projection, which led the audience to complete delight and gave the girl 7th place.
The eccentric Polish performer Mihail Shpak earned his 8th place, mainly thanks to the TV viewers, because in total he scored 229 points, while the jury members gave him only 7.
Donny Montel represented Lithuania for the second time - the first one took place in 2012. This time his composition "I've been waiting for this night" was on the 8th line, which is much better than the previous result, when he managed to take only 14th place.
The results of the Eurovision 2016 final showed that she completed the top 10 best performances Belgian Laura Tesoro with the song "What's the Pressure?", accompanied by very energetic dances.
Eurovision 2016 - voting results, there is room for improvement
The final of the competition was presented by 10 more countries, so it is also interesting which of them took what place at Eurovision 2016.
On the 13th line is the Austrian Zoe with the composition "Loin d'ici" - the only one performed in the official French language without an admixture of English.
Hovi Stra from Israel with the song "Made of Stars" was in 14th place, and immediately behind him with a margin of 3 points was the Latvian Justs and his "Hearbeat".
Italy, as usual, showed an average result - Francesca Mikielin and "No degree of separation" took 16th place.
- Azerbaijani Semra and her "Miracle" took the 17th position.
In 18th place was Sanja Vucic, who represented Serbia with the song "Goodbye", followed by the Hungarian singer Freddy with the song "Pioneer".
Completed 20 best performers rock band from Georgia Nika Kocharov & Young Geotgian Lolitaz with the song "Midnight Gold".
Of course, these performers have something to strive for. But the fact that they managed to get into the finals of the world-class competition and showed far from the worst result is a real achievement in itself.
Eurovision 2016 - results of the best
The final of Eurovision 2016 was held on May 14 in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. In total, 42 countries took part in this year's event, but only 26 of them were able to show their performances in the final part of the competition. The results of the Eurovision 2016 voting showed that the performance that represented Ukraine at the contest with the song "1944" was the best.
This conclusion was quite unexpected both for the members of the jury and for the viewers. After all, both of them gave Ukraine only the second place. However, the total amount of votes was the highest in this competition and amounted to 534 points.
Second place at Eurovision 2016 went to last year's debutante - Australia and her representative with the song "Sound of Silence". In 2015, Australia debuted at Eurovision, which caused a lot of gossip in the press, as the country made it to the final, bypassing the semi-finals. The situation softened a little when the tightening of the competition rules for Australia was indicated. In order to continue to have the right to participate in Eurovision, the performer from the country had to take one of the prizes. Unfortunately, this did not happen, so Australia was not supposed to attend the 2016 contest. However, the EBU still allowed the country to present its performer in the second semi-final, where Dami Im took the lead.
According to the voting results of Eurovision 2016, the top three was completed by a performer from Russia with the song "You are the only one". His performance was accompanied by an animation on an interactive screen behind him, creating the illusion of the artist floating in space. In general, the performance was very spectacular and amazed many spectators.
It is interesting to note the fact that the final tables of Eurovision-2016 from the members of the jury and from the viewers foreshadowed a different final of the competition. Members of the jury awarded the palm of Australia, and viewers - Sergey Lazarev. Both those and others agreed that Ukraine should rightfully be on the second line. However, the sum of the votes showed that as a result, the victory went to Ukraine, while Australia and Russia could only take the next prize places.
These are the results of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016. Whether last year's favorites will be able to stay on Olympus or join the ranks of outsiders - it's not long to wait for an answer to this question.