JESC is Successful Project for Georgia
05.10.2009
The Georgian Public Broadcasting and creative group of the JESC are successfully preparing children for the most important song contest in Europe.
In 2009 Georgia will participate in JESC for already the third time. In 2007 Mariam Romelashvili, took 4th place in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Last year Georgian Group “Bzikebi” won JESC final, which was held in Cyprus.
Group "PRINCESSES" will represent Georgia at Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song - "Blue Bird". Group "PRINCESSES" won the hearts of the seven-member jury, and Georgian TV-voters and "PRINCESSES" was revealed as the best from the ten participant groups in the national contest.
Tamar Skhvitaridze, the manager of the creative group:
"The JESC turned to be a very impotent and interesting project for Georgia. We actually don’t have the songs for 10 -15 yours old teenagers. In Georgia in was spread opinion that for the children of this age was bad to sing and we prefer to make them stop singing and wait for the proper time. The lack of this kind of songs made children sing the songs of Popular adult stars.
The main request of the JESC for the children was that they have to create the new songs for themselves. This request gave rise to a wide discussion. The major public opinion was – child cannot create music, Child must learn from adult! In spite of this we manage to find the processionals, who agreed to listen to children, take into consideration their requests and follow them in the process of creating songs. This was the big change, real revolution which ended with the victory of children and our creative group. We are grateful to JESC for this.
We are planning to make one more revolution together with JESC in this year.
There are two separated worlds - the children who are learning classic music and children who are performing the modern music. Between them is no connection. But I think that in the base of all kind of musical education must be the classic. One more, children who are learning classical music or studying in the choreography studios must have chance to be close to the modern music , have modern videos and be popular. Because of this we want to win this year.
"PRINCESSES" are pretty, talented children, singing modern song based on the classic theme. Let see what choice will make the Europe”.