Today on February 27 in Tbilisi Concert Hall in "Philharmonic" on the national final round the song will be selected which will be sent to "Eurovision".
The concert will be on air over GPB channel 1, live. From Georgia Sopho Nijaradze will be presented in Oslo on the "Eurovision". Among those 6 songs which Sopho Nijaradze will present in the final round are Georgian songs and as well songs composed by foreign authors. The winner song will be revealed after the common vote of jury and TV spectators. The group of producers of the GPB selected 6 songs among 100 presented ones.
From six songs selected for the national final round 3 are Georgian.
Tina Japaridze, USA residing together with co-authors - Ben Robins and Billy Laivs presented a song "Never give in". Tina Japaridze's own song last year won a second place after the Island in the "Eurovision". In the internal selection process in Germany the winner was Brendan Stoun (Besik Shpetishvili), he presented a song "Call me".
Among six songs is as well Mikheil Mdinaradze with the song "Our word". The well known composer Swika Pike composed a song specially for Sopho Nijaradze. Swika is a popular singer and composer in Israel. Her song "Diva" in 1998 European festival has been victorious. Her song was in the 2003 Eurovision performed by Ukrainian representative. Specially for Sopho Nijaradze as well the song was sent to GPB composed by Portuguese composers Carlos Coelo and Andrey Babik, named "For eternity". Both of them have a big experience in Eurovision.
The sixth song is the "Shine", of Norwegian Hen Sorvaag, Swedish Hary Somerdale and Cristian Luse.
In 2010 the "Eurovision" song festival will be held in the Norwegian capital Oslo. The winner song among above mentioned 6 ones will be presented by Sopho Nijaradze on May 27.