TVE has announced the names of the 24 candidates that will compete in the Spanish Eurovision 2011 national selection, thus will battle out in the forthcoming Spanish semi finals. It now seems to be clear that 6 jokers will be revealed soon, thus making the number of competing candidates to a total of 30. TVE has scheduled a total of 4 shows in order to choose their Eurovision song and singer for Dusseldorf.

24 candites have been chosen from the 30 finalists announced earlier. Alba Lucía, Dani Alemán, Divas, Fernando Hidalgo, Lussi Bom and Sonia y Selena have failed to qualify for the forthcoming semifinals scheduled to be held in Barcelona and kick off on the 24th of January. TVE is working very hard in order to choose their 2011 Eurovision entry, both the song and singer will be chosen separately. We are now awaiting the names of the 6 Joker candidates, as TVE announced earlier a total of 30 candidates will compete in the Spanish Eurovision 2011 national selection. The first semifinal will be held in Barcelona on the 24th of January.

The lucky 24 candidates:

Alazán
Auryn
Baltanás
Da igual
David Sancho
Don Johnsons
Esmeralda Grao
Gio
Guadiana
Las Miranda
Lorena Rosales
Lucía Pérez
María López
Melissa
Mónica Guech
Pau Quero
Paula Marengo
Roima Durán
Sebas
Sergi Albert
Sometimes
Sunami
Valeria Antonella
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Sanjay (Sergio) joined esctoday.com in December 2006 as an editor. He was appointed as the Head of Press of ESCToday.com in 2011. Hereafter in 2016 he was promoted as the Head of International Relations & Communications at ESCToday. Sergio has covered the Eurovision Song Contest live 22 times since 2000, having worked for several international magazines and media outlets.