RTS, the Swiss French national broadcaster, has revealed the 6 selected candidates who will qualify to the second phase of the selection.
Last month, RTS released the list of the 26 candidates that had been chosen to partake in the RTS internal selection process for the Swiss national final. You can listen to the selected entries below.
RTS selected candidates
- Alenko – Vu d’en haut
- Anach Cuan – Hurdy gurdy girls
- Celia – Letter to myself
- Licia Chery – Fly
- Mélanie René – Time to shine
- Shana P. – Kevlar heart
You can listen to all of the selected entries here.
These 6 acts will now join the 3 selected acts from RSI – The Vad Vac, Deborah Bough and Elias featuring Zero In On – as well as the 9 selected acts from SRF/RTR which will be unveiled in due course. This means that a total of 18 artists will qualify to the live auditions. The live audition is scheduled to be held on 7 December in Zurich.
After an exhaustive evaluation and deliberation, the expert jury will shortlist a total of 6 candidates who will compete for the golden ticket to Austria at the 2015 Swiss Eurovision national final on 31 January in Kreuzlingen – 3 acts from SRF/RTR, 2 acts from RTS and 1 act from RSI.