Junior Eurovision has a new star! The competition took place this Saturday, November 16 in Madrid: one of the 17 artists won the votes. Find out who is the lucky winner of this 2024 edition.
Junior Eurovision took place this Saturday, November 16. Broadcast live by France 2 from 6 p.m., the competition for young singers aged 9 to 14 was commented on the public channel by Stéphane Bern and Valentina, winner in 2020. Seventeen countries competed during this 22nd edition of the “kids” version of the singing competition. On the French side, the delegation announced on September 18 that Titouan would be the French representative after three consecutive victories (Valentina in 2020, Lissandro 2022 and Zoé Clauzure in 2023) with his title. Like this, like that composed by Malo and co-written by Marie Bastide. The young Breton is not unknown to the public who have already been able to follow his performances in 2022 in The Voice Kids and last January in Dream team.
Junior Eurovision 2024: how did the votes take place for the 22nd edition?
Unlike Eurovision, its big sister, this children's version of the competition is based on a different voting system. Indeed, on Friday November 15, a platform welcomed the first votes from 9 p.m. Internet users were then asked to select three countries and, difference in size with the version offered in springit was possible to give your vote for your own country! On November 16, when the competition was launched, the voting platform closed while waiting for each singer to perform on stage. Once all the passages were assured, it reopened for fifteen minutes, allowing the last voters to express themselves.
Junior Eurovision 2024: who is the winner and what place for France?
It was from Madrid that the seventeen singers competed against each other. Although France won the 2023 edition, the French delegation chose to let Spain, second in the ranking, organize the competition. “After two years of organization, shifting your perspective and your vision to another culture seems important to me.” Alexandra Redde-Amiel justified herself in the columns of 20 minutes on September 18. It is therefore in Madrid thatAndria Putkaradze from Georgia won with 239 points ahead of the Portuguese Victoria Nicole (2nd) and the Ukrainian Artem Kotenko (3rd). Titouan, the representative of France, came fourth in the ranking.
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