Tonight, the first Eurokids semifinal takes place. In an unusual jointly show of the Flemish broadcaster VRT and the Walloon broadcaster RTBF, three Flemish and three Walloon kids will compete for a place in the final, where the best three Flemish and best three Walloon songs will compete again.

The participants
1. Les Opposées – J�en ai marre
2. Max – Voor eeuwig
3. Marie – Non, stop
4. Jess �N Emmy – Een gevoel
5. Nicolas – Le nez dans les étoiles
6. qROCKmadam – Grenzen

You can listen to the songs here.

Voting
Four juries (the professionals, the radio jury, a youth jury and the televoters) decide. The professionals are Mélanie Cohl, who represented Belgium at the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest, VRT commentator André Vermeulen, former Eurosong jury member Marcel Vanthilt and singer/actress Viktor Lazlo, who hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 1987.

Our colleagues of eurosong.be published more information about the televoting numbers, which you can find here.

Interval act
Gene Thomas will perform as interval act on Flemish VRT. Meanwhile, the Walloon RTBF will broadcast commercials.

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