Hello everyone! An attempt to create new tradition here: The Sofia Nizharadze Award! What is the Sofia Nizharadze Award? The Sofia Nizharadze Award is the award that goes to the singer/song with the best live vocals. We all remember how Sofia surprised most of us in 2010, with her live performance of 'Shine', I hope. How will we decide the winner? Three candidates will qualify from Semi 1, three from Semi 2 and 2 new candidates from the final. Every song can be voted for, also the non-qualifiers. Of course, the candidates from Semi 1 can be both qualifiers and non-qualifiers. You vote for three songs in Semifinal 1, three songs in Semifinal 2 and two songs for the final. Your vote contains the same amount of songs/countries as there are places to qualify. EXAMPLE: Semi 1: Albania - Finland - Hungary Semi 2: Holland - Austria - Slovenia Final: Italy - Switzerland Vote for the best vocals is the point! When can we vote? Now! The candidates from Semifinal 1 will be decided from now until tomorrow night, 18.00 CET. After Semifinal 2, voting immediately opens for those three candidates. That will go until 18.00 CET Saturday. After the final, we have ONE Day (until 23.59 CET Sunday). When we have our eight candidates, we will have two days (23.59 CET Tuesday) to decide who will be the winner of the Sofia Nizharadze Award 2011! You can vote now for your three candidates of Semifinal 1!
First off, Nick, this is a WONDERFUL idea! Now, in my opinion, there were only three STANDOUT live performances: I so regret not putting her in my Top 10. The live performance was so touching. On a night when so many live performances were bad, this saved the day and I can not believe I am actually including this country, but... The performance was impeccable, on key, and flawless
It wasn't a great night for hot vocals to be honest. Nothing really wowed me, nevertheless: Probably my favourite just because of Aurela's intensity. I bet she scared the audience too much for them to pick up their phones. Dull ass song but credit where credit is due. Messed up a good third of her ad-libs but a solid effort. Kati may have scored a nomination if taking a few steps across the stage hadn't completely thrown off her ability to stay in tune.
Anette and Sheep, your votes will be counted, I hadn't closed voting officially yet THE RESULTS: Qualifier #1: Switzerland - Anna Rossinelli - 'In Love For A While' Qualifier #2: Finland - Paradise Oskar - 'Da Da Dam' Qualifier #3: Albania - Aurela Gaçe - 'Feel The Passion' Congratulations to the three qualifiers! Voting for Semifinal 2 will start after the Semi ends tonight!