Songs for the Swiss national selections for the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest can be submitted until 14th October, Swiss broadcaster SF DRS informed esctoday.com. The Swiss broadcasters SF DRS, TSR and TSI earlier announced to repeat last year's rules for participation.
Switzerland is again looking for singers who are able to present themselves in a professional way on stage of the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest in Athens, aiming for a good result in the final. SF DRS, TSR and TSI believe that this is only possible with the best performers and the best songwriters.
Artists who would like to bid for representing Switzerland in Athens can be of any nationality but should have stage and television experience, have released an album that has reached the top 50 of the official album charts and have released at least one professional video clip. Songs should reach SF DRS in Zürich or TSR in Genève before 14th October 2005.
For the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest, Switzerland internally selected the Estonian girl band Vanilla Ninja. With the song Cool vibes they finished 8th in the final in Kyiv.
