2015 Eurovision Song Contest jury members announced

A list of important men and women have just been presented on Eurovision.tv. They are important as they are the jury members for the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest which will decide half of the result of the contest. Take a look as to who can make your favourite win or lose. 

After each participating country presented their jury members to EBU a long checking process has taken place in order to make sure that none of the jury members are too close involved with any of the participants. The jury members decide half of the result and as such it is important that they remain objective.

The jury members had to be at least 16 years old, and they must be actively working on getting a career within the music industry. They also have to be citizen in the country they are jury member and it must not have been jury member within the past two years.

There are several former Eurovision Song Contest participants on the list:

From Armenia: Aram MP3 (2014)

From Austria: Manuel Ortega (2002)

From Belgium: Roberto Bellarosa (2013) and Florance Huby (Witloof Bay, 2011),

From Denmark: Lotte Feder from Kenny & Lotte (1992) and Søren Poppe from Rollo & King (2001)

From France: Marie Myriam (1977)

From Georgia: Sophie Gelovani (2013)

From Greece: Marianna Efstratiou (1989 and 1996)

From Iceland: Birgitta Haukdal (2003)

From Ireland: Ryan Dolan (2013)

From Israel: Liora (1995)

From Latvia: Ralfs Eilands (part of PeR, L2013)

From Moldova: Geta Burlacu (2008)

From Norway: Margaret Berger (2013)

From Poland: Michal Wisniewski (Ich Troje, 2003 and 2006) and Cleo (2014)

From Portugal: Adelaide Ferreira (1985) and Inês Santos (1998)

From Romania: Ovi (2000 and 2014)

From Russia: Alsou (2000) and Dina Garipova (2013)

From San Marino: Nicola della Valle (2008)

From Serbia: Nevena (Moje Tri, 2013 and Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2007) and Marko Kon (2009)

From Slovenia: Tinkara Kovac (2014)

From Spain: Rosa Lopéz (2002), Dani Diges (2010), Pastora Soler (2012) and Ruth Lorenzo (2014)

From Switzerland: Gabriel from the band Sinplus (2012)

The Netherlands: Hind (2008)

More can probably be found digging into the list.

The entire list of jury members can be found at the end of Eurovisision.tv’s article.

Notes:

  • The Albanian jury is not yet complete and therefore, not yet approved (Friday, 1st of May, 12:00 CEST)
  • The Swiss jury misses their back-up jury member, which will be added shortly (Friday, 1st of May, 12:00 CEST)
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