Baku. Ulkar Rashidgizi – APA. The national selections of Azerbaijan for Eurovision Song Contest 2013, in Malmö, Sweden, May are being continued. APA reports that the other nine candidates will compete in the selections that will be broadcast live on Public Television today. It is the second stage of the national selections and this stage will last for eight weeks. The procedure will be held in the same way as every year. The candidates will demonstrate their performances on weeknights of certain weeks. On Fridays, the winner of 5 days will be defined.
The names of the second week’s nine participants of the national selections for the Eurovision 2013 song contest are known. They are Shahin Sadigov, Sibel Jafarova, “Baku rock” band, Rafael Isayev, Khayal Tagiyev, Ena-Kameliya Tabesh Mogeddem, Anar Safarov, Ravana Aliyeva and Leyla Izzatova. Ena-Kameliya is from Iran, her mother is Iranian and mother Russian. She participated in the selection to represent Azerbaijan in the above-mentioned contest. She is 16-year-old and an Azerbaijani citizen.
The participants will be divided into 8 groups and will compete for 8 weeks. Monday was determined for the Eurovision hits, Tuesday for the Azerbaijani art, Wednesday for world hits and Thursday for stage shows. Friday is free for the participants. A participant can sing his or her song again that he of she sang it in the first four days. The representative will be determined by both televoting and jury. Our representative will be selected among the finalists.