Hello everyone!

Last year we started the Sofia Nizharadze Award, the award for best vocalist of the Eurovision Song Contest. The trophy was won by Nadine Beiler, the Austrian representative (if you click her name, you can relive her performance in Düsseldorf). Nadine was the first winner, but of course we may not forget the person who this award is named after: Sofia Nizharadze, the Georgian representative in 2010. You can relive her performance by clicking her name.

This year, the award is, as promised, back! However, we will have some changes!

• There will now be 2 awards: 1 for best male vocalist, 1 for best female vocalist!
• The award can be won by an individual vocalist. Last year, we saw Loukas Giorkas getting eliminated mostly because people didn't think Stereo Mike belonged in the top 10. Therefore, the award can now go to individual artists.

Some things however will stay the same!

• There will be 3 qualifiers from semi 1, 3 from semi 2 and 4 from the final. The semifinal nominees may have participated in the final as well. (For example, you can nominate Rona Nishliu from semifinal 1, but also from the final.)
• The vocalists will first be nominated. When the list of nominees has been determined after a public voting, we're gonna eliminate them one by one until only one is left per category.

How to vote?

• You can nominate 3 singers per category, per show. (So 3 female vocalists from semi 1, 3 male from semi 1, 3 female from semi 2, 3 male from semi 2.) Only in the final, you nominate 4 per category.
• You just post your vote here in the forum. Voting is open for 1 day, and I will count the results.

So, let's start with nominating the nominees from semifinal 1!

Female vocalist, semifinal 1

• Gréta Salóme
• Eleftheria Eleftheriou
• Anmary
• Rona Nishliu
• Elena Ionescu
• Iris
• Pernilla
• Valentina Monetta
• Ivi Adamou
• Soluna Samay
• Olga Tuktaryova
• Natalya Pugachyova
• Granya Baysarova
• Galina Koneva
• Valentina Pyatchenko
• Yekaterina Shklyaeva

Male vocalist, semifinal 1

• Rambo Amadeus
• Jónsi
• Gabriel Broggini
• Ran Shem Tov
• Csaba Walkó
• Lukas Plöchl
• Manuel Hoffelner
• Pasha Parfeny
• John Grimes
• Edward Grimes

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Please nominate 3 artists per category (male/female).
Voting will be open for ONE day!

Female:
Pernilla - Rona Nishliu - Anmary

Male:
Csaba Walkó - Pasha Parfeny - Jónsi

Female category:

Rona Nishliu
Pernilla
Greta Salome

Male category:
Pasha Parfeny
Csaba Walkó
Gabriel Broggini

Female:
Male:

Female: Saluna Sumay Gréta Salóme Iris
Male: Jónsi Pasha Parfeny Gabriel Broggini

Female: Rona Nishliu Greta Salome Pernilla
Male: Jonsi Gabriel Broggini Pasha Parfeny

Female: Rona Nishiliu Ivi Adamou Natalya Pugachyova

Male: John Grimes Edward Grimes Csaba Walkó

Female spain, azerbajain belgium

Male: estonia , lithuania , serbia

Female:

Male:

Female Vocalist:
- Gréta Salóme
- Rona Nishliu
- Elena Ionescu

Male Vocalist:
- Jónsi
And I really can't nominate anyone else, the rest were dreadful, in my opinion.

Female:

Iris
Soluna Samay
Valentina Monetta

Male:

Pasha Parfeny
John Grimes
Edward Grimes

Female:
Rona Nishliu
Elena Ionescu
Iris
Male:
Jonsi
Gabriel Broggini
Csaba Walkó

Before I make my nominations, many of you will know I wasn't there for the whole of either semi final, so I have watched the performances I missed, and can I just say: Switzerland was robbed!
Female:
Rona Nishlu
Pernilla
Anmary
Male:
Gabriel Broggini
Csaba Walkó
Jónsi

Female:
Anmary
Pernilla
Iris
Male:
Gabriel Broggini
Pasha Parfeny
Csaba Walkó

Female Vocals - Rona Nishliu, Valentina Monetta, Iris
Male Vocals - Jónsi, Gabriel Broggini, Lukas Plöchl

Female:
Rona
Iris
Greta

Male:
Gabriel
Pasha
Jonsi

I thought that, although the song was awful, she performed it rather well.

Well I'm only talking about her voice of course, which I seem to remember thinking was fine at the time. I would watch it again, but You Tube doesn't seem to working for me at the moment