Ukraine will select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool through a live event hosted from a bomb shelter in Kyiv. The grand final of Vidbir, its national selection competition, will take place on Saturday December 17 at a currently undisclosed location in the capital.
Ukrainian national broadcaster UA:PBC has received nearly 400 songs from 299 participants. All will be hoping to replicate Kalush Orchestra’s success in Turin.
Pianoboy, the Ukrainian music producer overseeing the selection process, said: “I would like this Vidbir to discover new outstanding creative names and make people feel touched and good about this music. I must say, which is quite unexpected for me, this job is based on psychology because you have to raise musicians from sort of a bottom, motivate them.
