Azeri Milli Seçim Turu winner Sabina Babayeva got the honour of representing the host country after winning one of the longest national selection. In the show only the winner was announced and it is now time to get to know the song. At the Eurovision Song Contest Sabine will sing the song When The Music Dies.
Two former Danish Eurovision Song Contest participants have joined Amnesty International's fights to get 16 prisoners in Azerbaijan released. They got jailed a year ago for speaking against the Azeri government and the campaign on Monday will include other former Eurovision participants.
In the long selection process in Azerbaijan, we reached the end of Milli Seçim Turu's 2012 edition. Five names, Orhan Kerimli, Elton İbrahimov, Feqan Seferov, Sabina Babayeva and Arzu İsmayilova participated once again to represent the host country where Sabina Babayeva got the honour. The song will be announced at a later date.
We have come to an end in long selection process of Azeri Milli Seçim Turu's 2012 edition with the final show, that will be held on sunday evening. Five finalist will compete for the honour of representing their country on home field. Let's take a closer look as to how they came this far.
The long Azeri selection process continued with another week of semi-final shows in the host country. Eight qualifiers gave their all to win a place in the Gala Concert, to where only five of them would proceed. Winner of first heat, Orhan Kerimli was the winner of the semi-final.
Azerbaijan continues non-stop its national selection, Milli Seçim Turu, with the semi-final shows. Orhan Kerimli, Meryem Kerimova, Hayyam Mustafazadeh, Feqan Seferov, Elton İbrahimov, Adil Bakışlı, Sabina Babayeva and Arzu İsmailova will perform to qualify to the final where only five names will be proceed.
Tonight, we came to the end of the long process of Azerbaijan's national final, Milli Seçim Turu 2012. Another group of nine participants fought for the last ticket to semi-finals where Arzu İsmailova got the winning award.
So far very few countries already have their song ready for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, but today 37 of the participating countries were allocated a spot in one of the two semi-finals. At the same time Light My Fire was presented as theme for this, the 57th contest.
After a long waiting time and many speculations about whether or not they would be ready in time, the newly build, Chrystal Hall in Baku was finally approved by the EBU as venue for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest.
The EBU has announced that a total of 43 countries will participate in the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Baku the next 22, 24 and 26 of May. It confirms the participation of Armenia, the return of Montenegro after three years of absence and the withdrawal of Poland.
