Flemish broadcaster VRT has begun to reveal information about Eurosong 2025, including snippets from the first four entries and the jury composition.
About Eurosong 2025
Last November, VRT revealed the eight artists participating in Eurosong 2025. On Monday, the broadcaster revealed snippets from Grace, LEEZ, Lenn and Le Manou’s entries. These four will perform in the first Eurosong show on Saturday 18th January. The other four participating artists, Jelle Van Dael, Mentissa, Red Sebastian and Stefanie Callebaut, will perform in the second show the following Saturday. Presumably, snippets of their songs would be released on the prior Monday, the 20th of January. The final of Eurosong 2025 will take place on Saturday 1st of February, where a combination of jury votes and televote will reveal who represents Belgium in Basel.
Jury Revealed
In addition, VRT revealed the 15 members of the jury that will in part decide the Belgian representative for Basel. This includes four members with well-known links to Eurovision as well as 11 music experts. 2023 Belgian representative Gustaph is part of the jury, alongside Eurovision 2013 champion Emmelie De Forest. The full list of jury members is:
- Gustaph (Eurovision 2023, 7th place)
- Bart Cannaerts (Television presenter and stand up comedian)
- Merol (Dutch singer and actress)
- Emmelie de Forest (Eurovision 2013, 1st place)
- André Vermeulen (Eurovision specialist)
- Els Germonpré (Music coordinator VRT1)
- Leslie Cable (RTBF delegation leader at Eurovision)
- Stephan Monsieur (OGAE Belgium chairman)
- Jasper Van Biesen (Author of ’65 years of Belgium at the Eurovision Song Contest’)
- Indy Van Cauwenbergh (Choreographer)
- Kim Debrie (Radio 2)
- Anja Daems (Radio 2)
- Laura Govaerts (MNM)
- Imane Boudadi (MNM)
- Nona Van Braekel (Studio Brussel)
Belgium’s Eurovision History
Belgium was one of the debutant countries at the beginning of the Eurovision Song Contest back in 1956. For the first edition, countries could submit two songs, and for Belgium that year, ‘Messieurs les noyès de la Seine’ by Fud Leclerc and ‘Le plus beau jour de ma vie’ by Mony Marc represented the nation. To this day we do not know the final results of Eurovision 1956. Belgium have taken part in 64 Eurovision Song Contests; however, they have only ever won once: in 1986 with Sandra Kim and the song ‘J’amie la vie’, scoring 176 points.
Following an impressive seventh place in 2023, Belgium chose Mustii to represent them with “Before The Party’s Over” in 2024. Mustii scored eighteen points in the second semifinal, placing thirteenth.
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News Source: VRT
Photo Credit: VRT
Giwrgos Oiko