Monday, 12 March 2012

10/03/12 ROMANIA

The Romanian Final was held on March 10th at the TVR TV Studios in Bucharest, hosted by Gianina Corondan, Iulia Pârlea, Constantin Trofin,Valentin Paraschiv, Bogdan Iacob & David Zory. The winner, chosen by a 50-50 split of televoting and jury was the band Mandinga with their song “Zaleilah”

The band works really well together and the whole show is very much a cohesive unit. The lead singer has a very powerful voice and sings very well. Her Spanish is very good too ! The lead singer comes on in very high heels and almost immediately does a costume change, which was a little on the unnecessary side.

The song is quite an interesting one. It has a lot of international elements to it  - the drumming, the accordion, the bagpipes the use of Spanish – and in a strange way it really works. It’s not exactly sing-alongable at first hearing but does make you tap along and get involved. OK they have a nonsense chorus and almost as nonsensical dance routine to go along with it but to be honest it just sounds nice. It sounds like they want to be there and enjoy what they do.

I don’t think this is a bad entry from the Romanians and should qualify.




SONG – Zaleilah
ARTIST – Mandinga
COMPOSERS – Secada Dihigo Omar, Ionescu Elena, Costi Ioniţă
LANGUAGE – Spanish/English

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