Today TVR – the Romanian National Broadcaster released the name of the acts and the songs competing for a chance to represent them in Kyiv at Eurovision Song Contest.

There are 72 songs and amongst them we can find names like M I H A I (Mihai Traistariu – 2006 – 4th place), Cristina Vasiu (Selectia Nationala 2015), LORA ( Selectia Nationala 2010), XANDRA (Selectia Nationala 2016).

The complete list looks like this:

This weekend (Friday-Sunday) the live auditions will take place at TVR studios in Bucharest. All the auditions will be broadcasted in a show starting February 5th until February 11th on TVR 2, TVR HD, TVR Moldova and TVR International from  20.00 local time.
Sunday February 12  during a LIVE show the jury will reveal all 15 semifinalists from Selectia Nationala 2017. The show will be braodcasted  from 20.00 local time on TVR2,  TVR HD, TVR Moldova and TVR International.

Luminiţa Anghel, Ovi Jacobsen,  Paula Seling, Adrian Romcescu and Andrei Tudor will be the jury to select the semifinalists.

(Paula Seling & Ovi – from ESC 2014)

Not all the songs have been yet revealed but we can give you a  little taste from Selectia Nationala.  Enjoy!

Are you looking forward to hear all the songs? Could Romania come back as a strong contender this year?

Author: Bogdan Stefan

Source: TVR, Eurovision Ireland