On the lead up to the 2025 Junior Eurovision Song Contest, in Tbilisi, we will be taking a look back at participating countries past and present, while we will also look at the top three Acts to ‘Shine Bright’ from all the previous Contests. Today we are looking at the Kyiv Contest from 2013. The top three Acts to ‘Shine Bright’ at Kyiv 2013 were:

Malta, 1st: Gaia Cauchi, “The Start” (130 points)

Ukraine, 2nd: Sofia Tarasova, “We Are One” (121 points)

Belarus, 3rd: Ilya Volkov, “Poy so mnoy” (108 points)

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Author: Richard Taylor

Source: Eurovision Ireland & YouTube/EBU