MRTV revealed in January that the representative of North Macedonia this year for the Eurovision Song Contest will be Tamara Todevska, the singer who has already performed in the 2008 ESC alongside Rade Vrchakovski and Adria Gaxha, then she was a vocalist backing her sister Tijana in 2014.
Tamara has announced a few weeks ago that she will be bringing her song “Proud” to the Eurovision stage in Tel Aviv, Israel, and because of the theme of the number – it celebrates women and their strength, it was released on International Women’s Day.
The song has been composed by Darko Dimitrov, Robert Bibliov and Lazar Cvetkovski. Each of them has previous experience at the Eurovision Song Contest.
Here, you can watch the music video for Tamara Todevska’s “Proud”:
All acts of the acts have now been announced, they are Srbuk for Armenia, Tamta for Cyprus, Jonida Maliqi for Albania, Eliot for Belgium, Miki for Spain, Serhat for San Marino, Duncan Laurence for The Netherlands, Tamara Todevska for North Macedonia, Michela Pace for Malta, Bilal Hassani for France, Lake Malawi for the Czech Republic, PÆNDA for Austria, Darude feat. Sebastian Rejman for Finland. Michael Rice for the United Kingdom, Sergey Lazarev for Russia, Mahmood for Italy, Kate Miller-Heidke for Australia, D-Moll for Montenegro, Kobi Marimi for Israel, Katerine Duska for Greece, Joci Pápai for Hungary, Jurijus for Lithuania, Leonora for Denmark, S!sters for Germany, Ester Peony for Romania, Victor Crone for Estonia, Roko for Croatia, Carousel for Latvia, Tulia for Poland, Hatari for Iceland, Zala Kralj & Gašper Šantl for Slovenia, KEiiNO for Norway, Nevena Bozovic for Serbia, Conan Osíris for Portugal, Oto Nemsadze for Georgia, Anna Odobescu for Moldova, Luca Hänni for Switzerland, John Lundvik for Sweden, Zena for Belarus, Sarah McTernan for Ireland, and Chingiz for Azerbaijan.
The 2019 Eurovision Song Contest will be hosted at the Expo Tel Aviv in Israel after Netta won last year with the song “Toy”. The two Semi-Finals will take place on 14 May and 16 May with the Grand Final taking place on 18 May. A total of 41 countries will compete in the contest.