Kaledonii in the Internatia Song Contest
Kaledonii | |
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Member station | Radio Television Kaledonii (RTK) |
National selection events | Kaledonii Song Festival (12, 15, 17-) |
Participation summary | |
Appearances | 10 |
First appearance | ISC 11th |
Best result | 1st (18) |
Worst result | SF 23th (14, 16) |
Kaledonii has participated in the Internatia Song Contest since ISC 11. While the nation managed to place fifth with their debut entry, it generally failed to make a major impact in the Internatia rankings for the next few editions. In the 18th edition of the Internatia Song Contest, Kaledonii won with The Piano Guys' song "Khushnuma" (sung by Shweta Subram).
In the first semi-final of ISC 16, Kaledonii made history by becoming the first country to receive nul points without being disqualified.
Entries
Edition | Artist | Language | Song | Place | Points | Semi | Points | Int. Jury | Points |
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11th | Eva & the Heartmaker | English | "Traces of You" (2012) | 5 | 89 | 6 | 67 | 13 | 11 |
12th | Diandra | Finnish | "Prinsessalle" (2012) | — | — | 15 | 47 | N/A | |
13th | Lisa Gerrard | Glossolalia | "Now We Are Free" (2000) | 22 | 53 | 11 | 56 | 18 | 13 |
14th[1] | Aphrodite's Child | English | "Spring, Summer, Winter & Fall" (1970) | — | — | 23 | 11 | N/A | |
15th | Kejsi Tola | Albanian | "Perendeshe e Fantazise" (2012) | — | — | 15 | 51 | 15 | 51 |
16th[2] | Elán | Slovak | "Od Tatier k Dunaju" (1989) | — | — | 23 | 0 | 18 | 25 |
17th[3] | Céline Dion | English | "Loved Me Back To Life" (2013) | 9 | 108 | 14 | 52 | 5 | 55 |
18th | The Piano Guys (feat. Shweta Subram) | Hindi, Sanskrit | "Khushnuma" (2013) | 1 | 163 | 1 | 85 | 6 | 49 |
19th | Adriiana | English | "Made Your Heart Break" (2013) | — | — | 20 | 38 | 21 | 16 |
20th | Palbasha Siddique | Bengali | "Praan" (2008) | 24 | 70 | Pre-Qualified | |||
21st | John Martin | English | "Anywhere For You" (2014) | 17 | 105 | 6 | 76 | 4 | 60 |
22nd | The Fray | English | "Love Don't Die" (2013) | N/A | |||||
23rd | Ben Rector | English | "Beautiful" (2013) | N/A |
History
Internatia Song Contest 11
Kambriite-duo Eva & the Heartmaker was internally selected by Radio Television Kaledonii to represent the nation in Marvelia. Their song Traces Of You qualified to the final where they came 5th– the best result for Kaledonii to date.
Internatia Song Contest 12
Metsaema singer Diandra Flores was chosen to represent Kaledonii after winning the inagural edition of the Kaledonii Song Festival in a landslide. Unfortunately for Flores, the Internatian voters were not charmed by her performance and she ended up 15th in her semi-final.
Kaledonii Song Festival 01
Kaledonii Televote
Internatia Song Contest 13
Konficor artist Lisa Gerrard was internally selected by Radio Television Kaledonii to represent the nation at the 13th Internatia Song Contest in Spirevo with the song Now We Are Free. Despite Kaledonii press stating that she was one of the front-runners for victory, Gerrard only barely managed to qualify to the final; placing 22nd in a field of 25.
Internatia Song Contest 14
Following a long meeting, the Cultural Division of RTK chose the Karonii group Aphrodite's Child to represent Kaledonii at the 14th Internatia Song Contest in Luzze. Aphrodite's Child crashed and burned in the semifinal; they escaped last place only due to the last-minute disqualification of Canedonia.
Internatia Song Contest 15
RTK held the second edition of the Kaledonii Song Festival to choose the entrant for the 15th edition of the Internatia Song Contest. Kejsi Tola won the right to represent the nation in Tramandi, Tikata. Unfortunately, she failed to qualify, placing 15th in a field of 27.
Kaledonii Song Festival 02
International Jury Votes
Kaledonii Televote
Internatia Song Contest 16
Slovak rock band Elán was chosen to represent Kaledonii at the Internatia Song Contest 16 in Pensa, Anselmsuusonia with their song, "Od Tatier k Dunaju".
Unfortunately, the song failed to impress voters from the rest of the countries in the semi-final; Kaledonii did not receive a single point from these nations. This occurrence was the first such time that a nation in the Internatia Song Contest had failed to receive a single point (other than disqualified nations who automatically lose all their points). While the nation did not receive any points, Kaledonii did not place last in its semi-final; Volnytaria's failure to vote in the semi-final resulted in its disqualification—Kaledonii, therefore, placed 23rd out of 24 nations.
Internatia Song Contest 17
Céline Dion was the original Kaledonii representative for the Internatia Song Contest 16 in Pensa, Anselmsuusonia. However, scheduling conflicts due to the imminent release of her new album, Loved Me Back To Life, resulted in her participation being delayed until the Internatia Song Contest 17 due to be held in Liechgrado, Yazminia.
On 1 November 2013, Dion was drawn to sing her song, "Loved Me Back To Life", third in the first semi-final of the 17th Internatia Song Contest. She, along with 25 other nations, is competing for one of 13 qualification spots from the semi-final. Despite placing 14th, Céline Dion was chosen as the "13th qualifier" due to her fifth placing in the International Jury vote.
In the final, Dion wowed viewers from her 22nd draw and she placed 9th in a field of 27; her 108 points were the highest points Kaledonii has received in an Internatia Song Contest final at the time.
Internatia Song Contest 18
Following disappointing results in the Internatia Song Contest 16, RTK decided to hold a six-song Kaledonii Song Festival. The winner of this festival, The Piano Guys (feat. Shweta Subram), will be the Kaledonii representative at the Internatia Song Contest 18 which will be held in Astrée, Kosma during December 2013.
Kaledonii Song Festival 03
Internatia Song Contest 19
Following Kaledonii's victory in the Internatia Song Contest 18, RTK announced that they would be conducting an internal selection to choose the representative for the 19th edition of the contest.
This decision was done in order to allow the broadcaster to allocate the maximum amount of resources to hosting the 20th edition of the contest in Śanti, Kaledonii.
Soon after announcing the lack of a national final, RTK came forward with the Kaledonii entrant at ISC 19, Adriiana—the third-placed entrant at the Kaledonii Song Festival 03. Her song, "Made Your Heart Break" was chosen to compete in Rosetown, Pebbleland.
Unfortunately for Kaledonii, there was a sound system failure roughly 20 seconds into Adriiana's performance. Despite being granted a reprise at the end of the semi-final, Adriiana was unable to deal with the stress, and consequently did not perform as well as she could have.
Kaledonii finished 20th in the semi-final with only 38 points. High points were received from Ova Anova and Aonach.
Internatia Song Contest 20
Kaledonii Song Festival 04
For the host entry to the Internatia Song Contest 20, RTK decided to host the fourth edition of the Kaledoni Song Festival to choose the nation's representative.
Not content with the "hugeness" and rather non-intimate nature of the previous editions, RTK reduced the previously six or seven artist competition into to a much smaller two artist event.
Each international juries voting had one vote to give to their favorite act; the Kaledoni televote had five votes. By reducing the size of the KSF, RTK hoped to increase international as well as domestic interest and participation in the song festival.
The two acts in this edition of the song festival were Palbasha Siddique with her Bengali song "Praan" and Violina feat. Birgit Õigemeel with their entry "Sea of Life".
Just as RTK had hoped, the smaller festival increased both international, and domestic interest in the Internatia Song Contest. The eventual voting for the competition were 10 votes for Palbasha Siddique to 3 votes for Violina feat. Birgit Õigemeel. Unfortunately, RTK's broadcast of the competition was corrupted in the broadcaster's archives, and the complete voting breakdown is unknown. However, it is known that the Kaledonii televote went to Palbasha Siddique, and that the Irdminian international jury voted for Violina feat. Birgit Õigemeel.
Voting History
As of ISC 17, Kaledonii's voting history is as follows:
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Notes
- ^ Aphrodite's Child would have placed last (24th) had Canedonia not been disqualified
- ^ Elán, who failed to recieve a single point from any of the other nations in the semi-final, did not place last due to Volnytaria's disqualification.
- ^ Céline Dion qualified to the final as the "13th qualifier" which is chosen based on the results of the International Jury
- ^ Kaledonii did not vote in the ISC 14 or ISC 15 finals