Czech Republic: Benny Cristo to fly the flag in Rotterdam

Czech Republic: Benny Cristo to fly the flag in Rotterdam

The Czech national broadcaster, revelaed today the results of its online national selection “Eurovision Song CZ 2020” , through which it selected this year’s Eurovision representative  Benny Cristo  and his song “Kemama” will defend the Czech colors in Rotterdam next May.

After two week of public voting through the special app today CT revealed the winner of the national selection, during a special program that was aired live.  The online voting kicked off January 20 and closed on February 2 (20:00 CET). The  final results weredetermined   50%  by the app  online voting and another 50% by international jury voting.

A total of 7 entries competed in this year’s online national selection:

First the international jury votes were revealed according to which Barbora Mochowa topped the jury voting while Benny Cristo came second.

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Once the online public votes were added in Benny Cristo, who topped the public voting came first winning the ticket to Rotterdam .

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A FEW WORDS FOR BENNY CHRISTO

Ben Cristovao , Portuguese Ben da Silva Cristóvão (born  June 8, 1987 in Pilsen ) aka Benny Cristo ,  is a Czech singer , songwriter , actor , athlete and songwriter. His mother comes from the Czech Republic, biological father from Angola . His younger sister is stand-up comedian Bianca Cristovao.

In 2009 he was a finalist of the Czech Slovak Superstar talent contest , where he finished 7th. But few know that he originally wanted to dance there.His experience in this competition motivated him to further focus on his singing career. In 2010, he released his debut album Definitely Different , the most successful singles being Give Me Some More and Put It On Me . A year later ( 2011 ) released the second album Benny Cristo . The album contains a song with Monika Bagárová I want and hit Cheers . For example, he performed before the American electro-pop group Far East Movement and Cuban-American rapper Pitbull .

In 2013 , Ben Cristovao and his video Bombs (directed by Tomáš Kasal) were nominated for the video clip of the year in the Czech Nightingale survey . This year, in addition to the single Bomby released the song Body and Stop . Ben Cristovao also (along with other musicians such as David Koller, Dan Barta, Michael Kocab, Vojta Dyk) participated in the project of Nikagda civic activity forgotten , which called for the 2013 elections and warned against the return of communists and inclinations to Russia.

In 2013 he released his third album Made In Czechoslovakia . The album contains a total of 16 songs, including Bomby , Sweet Chilli , Instagram , Molly (feat. Ego) and Body (feat. Supa) .

In 2015, Ben Cristovao performed in the sold-out Forum Karlín.

In 2016 he was awarded the Czech Nightingale award in the Most Streamed Czech Song category. He did not receive the award personally and said that he did not want to be in the same room with the band Ortel, which is known for its xenophobic lyrics. This year he recorded the cover of David Koller’s Nothing is Permanent . The song was released along with other songs by artists like Katarzia , Kato , Mucha , Vladimir 518 ) on David Koller’s recording David Koller & Friends .

In 2017 he released his latest album Poslední . This album did not come out on a classic CD, but fans could download it using a QR code on a T-shirt with special graphics. The main motif of the whole graphic was the painting Seagull in the sea, which was painted directly by Cristovao. The album comes from the song Program , for which it was made by Tomáš Kasal. In September 2017 Ben Cristovao performed a concert in Prague’s Yellow Spa for 4000 people. The recording of several songs from this concert came out in video form via VR glasses.

In 2018 Ben Cristovao performed at the Angel Music Awards with the song Legs , the guest was Jiří Korn . This year, together with Maria Čírová (produced by The Glowsticks ), he prepared the central song Padam for the Czech-Slovak dance film Backstage by Andrea Sedláčková . In the film, Ben Cristovao also plays the role of the jury of the dance competition. It also features Ivana Chýlková , Roman Luknár and Kryštof Hádek . In 2018, Ben Cristovao became a juror of the Czech Slovak Superstar talent contest .

The Eurovision story so far

Czech Republic appeared for the first time in the Contest in 2007 with  Kabat. A a row of disappointing results the country withdrew in 2010 and didn’t return until 2016. In 2016 its returned was followed by a grand final qualification for the first time . The best result came for the country in 2018 with  Mikolas Josef who achieved a 6th placing in the Lisbon with his song και  Lie to me.

Last year, Lake Malawi represented the country and finished 11th in the final . This was the country’s third qualification to the final . The outstanding element was the gap between the jury voting that placed the group 8th with 150 points while the public vote placed the Czech at the 24th place.

 

 

Angelo D.

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