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🇷🇺 Sofia Feskova releases music video for ‘My New Day’

As the days go on, more and more countries are releasing the final versions of their entries. Fresh from her finishing second at this year’s New Wave Junior, Sofia Feskova has now released the official music video for ‘My New Day‘. Throughout the video, we see through various settings, and make use of the theme of this year’s contest ‘Move The World’.

A bit more on Sofia..

‘My New Day’ was written by Sofia, along with Anna Petryasheva and Vitaly Tomin. Upon the release of the official music video of the song, Sofia was asked what her favourite lyric from the song is. To this, she answered:

The whole world feels like home; there I’ll stay, It’s my new day

She went on to explain that ‘This line is a call and reminder from a child for every adult: never be embarrassed to believe in miracles, create your own ‘fairy tale,’ and then your every ‘new day will be great”

In addition, Sofia also mentioned that her dream is to someday be able to sing with Polina Gagarina on the same stage. Polina represented Russia at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest with her song ‘A Million Voices’ where she placed 2nd behind Sweden’s Måns Zelmerlöw.

Russia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Russia debuted at Junior Eurovision in 2005. The country have only internally selected their artist once – in 2014. The rest of Russia’s acts have been selected via a national final. Vladislav Krutskikh represented Russia upon their debut, with the song “Doroga k solntsu”. The song finished 9th with 66 points.

Since their debut, Russia has participated 15 times. Winning the competition twice, in 2006 and 2017. Their recent participation, in 2019, saw them select Tatyana Mezhentseva and Denberel Oorzhak to represent them in Gliwice-Silesia with the song ‘A Time For Us’, which placed 13th.

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