Georgia won on the afternoon of this Saturday 2024, held in Madrid. the song To My Mom by Andria Putkaradze has been by far the most supported proposal of the professional jury and has won the mini crystal microphone of the youth musical competition, before the 7,000 people present at the Caja Mágica, a venue located in the south of the city.
The Spanish representative of this XXII edition, Chloe DelaRosa, has placed in sixth position among the 17 participants, with the theme Like La Lola by obtaining 144 points, 64 from the popular vote and 80 from the professional jury of the different countries. The song, composed by Luis Ramiro, Alejandro Martínez and David Parejo along with Chloe herself, is a tribute to Lola Flores and her . It also remembers , the song with which María Isabel won this same contest just 20 years ago.
Specifically, María Isabel was one of the artists to inaugurate the stage at a gala presented by the singer Ruth Lorenzo, Spanish representative of Eurovision in 2014, the actor Marc Clotet and Melani García, Spanish representative in Junior Eurovision 2019. The Huelva native appeared in the number opening ceremony along with two other former participants, the French Zoé Clauzure and the Spanish Sandra Valero.
In the children’s version of the contest, viewers can vote for their own country, unlike the contest with adults, in a televoting that is free and allows them to support three countries at the same time.
Junior Eurovision 2024, organized by RTVE and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) with the collaboration of Madrid Destino and the Community of Madrid, has had a budget of more than four million euros and has been distinguished by its nod to social networks and to the digital world, so close to the new generations. It has done so with the use of artificial intelligence in the postcards – the presentation videos of the participants – and also through a huge vertical screen 19 meters high and 11 meters wide, which has reigned on the stage and which has built, together with the floor screen, the staging of almost all the proposals without the need for props. It has been one of the great successes of this live gala, which stood out for its good performance and the high quality of its sound.
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France was the winner of the festival in 2023 with the song Coeur by Zoe Clauzure, but she gave up hosting again having already been there several times in recent years. The EBU then proposed it to Spain, which finally chose Madrid as the city that would host this edition due to the difficulty of finding a large venue with a free agenda elsewhere in the country.
Junior Eurovision is a live event that attracts a much more diverse and familiar audience to the venue where it is celebrated than its adult edition. Many Spanish spectators have taken advantage of this opportunity to attend the first Eurovision final held in Spain in more than half a century. An army of people who have applied through the program have been working altruistically for more than a week to serve as companions and hosts for the children participating in this edition and their corresponding artistic teams. They are your local friendly face in this experience.
Although its global audiences are not as high as those of the adult version, the junior edition, , is key to the future of the festival: it is an incubator for children eurofanspotential followers who keep the contest current and renew it with each generational leap.
This year’s motto, Let’s Bloom (Let’s Flourish), “try to grow together in a society that is as beautiful and diverse as possible,” Austrian Marvin Dietmann, artistic director of the gala, explained to this newspaper. With this event, RTVE has tried to demonstrate that “it is prepared and greased to host the event at any time,” said Ana María Bordas, head of the Spanish delegation at Eurovision since 2017 and member of the RTVE Steering Group.
This has been the winning performance of this edition:
