Slovenia: EMA 2014- national final on 8 March

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RTVSLO, the Slovenian national broadcaster has announced that the 2014 Eurovision Slovenian national final – EMA 2014 will be held on 8 March.

EMA 2014 will be aired live on RTVSLO 1 on 8 March at 20:00 CET.  The Slovenian broadcaster will invite singers and composers to take part in the competition. More details regarding EMA 2014 will be released in due course.

EMA, the Slovenian Eurovision national selection has been the mechanism used by Slovenia  traditionally to select its Eurovision representatives since many years. In 2013 Hannah Mancini was selected to represent Slovenia via an internal selection.

RTVSLO, the Slovenian national broadcaster confirmed to esctoday.com Slovenia’s participation at the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest last week, after a 10 day extension granted by the EBU. Slovenia thus became the 37th country to compete in this year’s contest.

Last year Hannah Mancini was selected via an internal selection to represent Slovenia at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest with her entry Straight into love.

Slovenia debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1993 and is yet to win the Eurovision Song Contest. The country’s best results at the contest have been in 1995 with Darja Svajger (7th) and in 2002 with Nusa Derenda (7th).

Slovenia will compete in the second- half of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest Semi-final 2 on 8 May.

Stay tuned to esctoday.com for more information on Slovenia and the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest.