San Marino: Serhat’s Eurovision 2019 entry will go public on 7 March

Another piece to the puzzle of this year’s Eurovision entries will be added, as Serhat Hacıpaşalıoğlu will unveil his song for San Marino on 7 March.
These days for Serhat are full of music. Travelling between San Marino, France and Turkey, he has started his video clip shootings under a very fresh and modern concept, which bring us, right into the ‘heart beat’ of the song. Many hours of work, with partners beyond geographical borders, who share their passion for music, Serhat prepares his new 2019 sanmarinese entry. The song will be released on 7 March, together with the video clip. Stay tuned! More info…loading!
San Marino is set to perform in the second half of Semi-Final 1 on Tuesday 14 May.
ABOUT SERHAT
Ahmet Serhat Hacıpaşalıoğlu (aka Serhat) was born 24 October 1964, in Istanbul where he grew up too. He started his song career in 1997 but his involvement in artistic scene begun earlier, as he has his own production company, namely End Productions. He was behind several tv productions among which “Riziko” (the turkish edition of the American show “Jeopardy“) which was hosted by himself (from 1994 to 1996 on TRT and since 1998 until 2000 on Kanal 7). In 2004 he released the duet song with Viktor Lazlo entitled “Total Disguise“ which met success. He released a remastered version of the song last year in collaboration with ESC 2005 winner, Helena Paparizou.
Serhat represented San Marino in Eurovision 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden. His entry entitlted, “I Didn’t Know” , almost made it to the final as it finished 11th in the semi final, due to the jury voting that ranked him second last. Lets remmember Serhat’s Eurovision 2016 performance:
THE EUROVISION STORY SO FAR
San Marino debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2008 with Miodio and is yet to win the event. The landlocked country has participated in Europe’s favorite television show 9 times and has only made it to the Grand Final once, in 2014 when Valentina Monetta placed 24th in the Grand Final.
Valentina has flow the Sammarinese flag at the Eurovision Song Contest four times ( 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017).
In 2018 the Sammarinese broadcaster came up with a fresh and innovative approach to select its Eurovision act and entry for Lisbon, an online international national selection 1 in 360.
Jessika Muscat and Jennifer Brening won the 2018 Sammarinese national final and defended the Sammarinese colours at the Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon with their entry Who we are. Despite a great performance San Marino failed to qualify to the Grand Final for the fourth consecutive time.