It is now only days away from the first heat of Eurovizija.LT 2024. It has now been revealed that Gabrielė Martirosian and Nombeko Augustė will host this year’s national final.
Hosts with previous experience of the Lithuanian selection
Gabrielė Martirosian and Nombeko Augustė have both hosted the Lithuanian selectionbefore. In 2017, 2019 and 2020 Gabrielė hosted, while last year Nombeko hosted Pabandom Iš Naujo! for the first time.
What we know about Eurovizija.LT 2024
Having announced their participation in July, LRT revealed updates to their national selection process in October, having previously used the competition “Pabandom iš Naujo” since 2020. Artists had until December 11th under the new system to submit songs to the selection, and there will be five semi-finals, the first of which will take place on January 13th 2024. Two songs from each semi-final will continue to the final, which will be hjeld February 17. Another major change for this year comes in the voting; the top three songs after the jury and televote will advance to the super final, however the artist with the most votes from the public will ultimately fly the Lithuanian flag in Malmö.
Lithuania’s Eurovision Journey
The Baltic nation made its debut at the Eurovision Song contest in 1994, where Ovidijus Vyšniauskas represented them with the song “Lopšinė mylimai”, which placed 25th. Since then, Lithuania has participated 21 times and made the Grand Final 14 times. LT United gave Lithuania their best ever Eurovision result back in 2006, where the country placed 6th.
In 2023, Monika Linkytė represented Lithuania, participating with the song “Stay”. Performing in the second semi-final, Monika qualified for the final in fourth place. In the Grand Final, Lithuania finished in 11th place overall, with 127 points – 81 points came from the juries, with another 46 points from the televote.
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News Source: LRT
Photo Credit: E. Blaževič/LRT/Gretos Skaraitienės/ŽMONĖS Foto
Rory Gannon
[…] pre-recorded semi-final was hosted by Gabrielė Martirosian and Nombeko Augustė from Vilnius and saw 8 acts compete for the chance to represent Lithuania at Eurovision […]
[…] pre-recorded semi-final was hosted by Gabrielė Martirosian and Nombeko Augustė from Vilnius and saw 8 acts compete for the chance to represent Lithuania at Eurovision […]