The hosts for Estonia’s Eesti Laul 2025 were revealed on ERR’s Ringvaade as former Eurovision representatives Korea and Eda-Ines Etti
Meet Your Hosts!
Karl Kivastik is more commonly known as Põhja-Korea or simply Korea – He has been a member of 5Miinust, who alongside Puuluup represented Estonia at this year’s Eurovision, since the group’s 2015 foundation. Eesti Laul 2025 will be Korea’s first foray into hosting.
Eda-Ines Etti, under the mononym Ines, represented her country at Eurovision 2000 with Once In A Lifetime – finishing 4th in Stockholm. She has also participated in, and hosted, Eesti Laul’s predecessor Eurolaul.
Joelle made to change name
In other Eesti Laul news, Joelle, who is competing with the song Eyes Don’t Lie has been subject to takedown requests from another artist by the same name, who holds the trademark rights. She will continue to participate in the competition, but under the name Johanna Elise.
What’s still to come?
- 6th of January – Online wildcard concludes and the final line-up is announced
- 15th of February – The final of Eesti Laul 2025
What is Eesti Laul?
For over a decade now Eesti Laul has showcased Estonian talent in a multi-stage format to select Estonia’s Eurovision entrant. Traditionally featuring two semi finals and a final, in recent years the show has been adapted year on year to feature (then subsequently remove) quarter finals, and wild card rounds. The winner is typically decided by a hybrid voting of juries and televotes, with superfinal of usually three acts vying for the chance to represent Estonia.
Estonia’s Eurovision History
Estonia has appeared at almost every Eurovision since their debut in 1994. They have won the contest once with Tanel Padar, Dave Benton and 2XL in 2001, singing Everybody. Other notable Estonian entrants include 3rd placer Sahlene with Runaway in 2002 and Ines with Once In A Lifetime in 2000, who placed 4th. More recently, their highest-placing entries have been Urban Symphony with Rändajad in 2009 and Ott Lepland with Kuula in 2012, both of which finished in 6th place.
In 2024, Estonia elected to send 5MIINUST and Puuluup through Eesti Laul to the Contest with “(Nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi”. They successfully qualified for the final and finshed in 20th place with 37 points. The group finished with 4 points from the juries, and an additional 33 points from the televote.
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News Source: ERR
Photo Credit: Ken Mürk / ERR
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