Hey everyone!

It's time for the third annual Sofia Nizharadze Award: the award for the best vocal performance of Eurovision! We'll once again have 2 awards to give out: Male and Female!
If we take a look at last year, we saw Pastora Soler win the Female Category, with Ott Lepland winning the Male Category.
In 2011, we only had one winner: Nadine Beiler.

Now, we need to take a look at how the voting will be this year:

• We'll vote three times per category to nominate the top 10: 3 per category from semifinal 1, 3 from semifinal 2 and 4 from the final.
• Qualifiers can be nominated in the semis, but also in the final. (Example: if Alyona Lanskaya isn't selected in the Semifinal Round, she can still be nominated in the Final Round).
• Vote here on the forum as a reply to this thread.
• You need to give a full vote. So when voting for 'Semifinal One', I need to see three of the males I listed AND three of the females to make it a valid vote.
• I understand that in groups, it might be difficult to identify who the singer behind the name is. That's why in case of groups, you can click the name and you'll then see picture of the artist.
• Voting will be open until 22.00 UK Time every day, after that I'll close the voting and put up the result of that day.
• A draw will be solved the next day.
• Once we've found all our nominees, we'll go for an elimination round. We'll eliminate our qualifiers one at a time!
• Tactical voting will NOT be allowed.
• We're voting on VOCALS only. Performance and music will be left out here.

If there's any question, then please send me a message or reply here. The first voting, which will be to find the three male and three female nominees from semifinal 1, will kick off at 20.00 UK Time on Sunday, 19th May.

Female vocalist, semifinal 1

• Aliona Moon
• Alyona Lanskaya
• Anouk
• Birgit
• Despina Olympiou
• Dina Garipova
• Emmelie de Forest
• Hannah
• Mirna Radulović*
• Natália Kelly
• Nevena Božović*
• Nina Žižić
• Sara Jovanović*
• Zlata Ognevich

Male vocalist, semifinal 1:

• Andrius Pojavis
• Ante Galić**
• Bojan Kavedžija**
• Dedduh***
• Ivica Vlaić**
• Leon Bataljaku**
• Marko Škugor**
• Nikša Antica**
• Noyz***
• Roberto Bellarosa
• Ryan Dolan

*: Please click HERE for a picture of Moje 3 with the names to remind you who's who.
**: Please click HERE for a picture of Klapa s Mora with the names to remind you who's who.
***: Please click HERE for a picture of Who See with the names to remind you who's who.
Once again, a reminder of the voting rules:
- Pick your favourite 3 male singers
- Pick your favourite 3 female singers
- Write the names, not the country.
- Vote on vocals only. Performance and song do not count.

Voting will be open until 20th May, 20.00 UK Time.

Female:
Anouk, Despina Olympiou and Zlata Ognevich

Male:
Marko Skugor, Bojan Kavedzija and Roberto Bellarosa

Male Andrius Pojavis Ryan Dolan Marko Škugo

Female Sara Jovanović Birgit Dina Garipova

Female: Zlata Ognevich, Dina Garipova and Anouk

Male: Marko Škugor, Bojan Kavedžija and Ante Galić

Female: Emmelie, Zlata, Anouk

Male: Andrius, Roberto, Bojan

Female vocalist, semi 1:
• Birgit Õigemeel
• Dina Garipova
• Zlata Ognevich

Male vocalist, semi 1:
• Roberto Bellarosa
• Ryan Dolan
• Bojan Kavedžija

Female: Birgit, Despina, Zlata
Male: Marko, Ante, Ivica

Female: Nina Zizic, Anouk, Dina Garipova
Male: Ryan Dolan, Roberto Bellarosa, Marko Skugor

Female : Anouk, Dina Garipova, Zlata Ognevich
Male : Andrius Pojavis , Marko Skugor, Roberto Bellarosa

Female vocalist, semifinal 1

• Aliona Moon
• Anouk
• Zlata Ognevich

Male vocalist, semifinal 1:

• Andrius Pojavis
• Roberto Bellarosa
• Ryan Dolan

Female:
Zlata Ognevich
Birgit
Dina Garipova

Male:
Marko Skugor
Ante Galic
Andrius Pojavis

Female Semi Final 1:
Anouk
Zlata Ognevich
Dina Garipova

Male Semi Final 1:
Marko Škugor
Roberto Bellarosa
Andrius Pojavis

Female : Birgit Õigemeel Despina Olympiou & Dina Garipova

Male : Andrius Pojavis Ryan Dolan & Marko Škugor

Voting closed!

Female vocalist, semifinal 1: QUALIFIERS

• Zlata Ognevich
• Dina Garipova
• TBD

Male vocalist, semifinal 1: QUALIFIERS

• Marko Škugor
• Roberto Bellarosa
• TBD