Georgia debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2007. Their first ever representative was Sopho Khalvashi with the song "My Story". The song was written by Beqa Jafaridze and Bibi Kvachadze.
On 12 December 2006, the broadcaster held a press conference and announced that they had internally selected Sopho Khalvashi to represent Georgia in Helsinki. The selection of Khalvashi as the Georgian entrant was based on a public poll featuring 20 artists, of which she received 63% of the votes. During the press conference, GPB announced that a national final would be held to select her song.[1]
National final[]
GPB announced that a public song submission would be opened from 12 December 2006 until 25 December 2006. The broadcaster sought songs in the pop-folk genre that fit the style of the selected artist.[2] An expert commission selected the top five songs from the received submissions and the songs were announced on 26 January 2007.[3] The national final took place on 3 March 2007 at the Philharmonic Hall in Tbilisi, hosted by Neli Agirba and Duta Skhirtladze and was broadcast on 1 TV GPB as well as online at the broadcaster's website 1tv.ge.[4] All five competing songs were performed by Sopho Khalvashi and the winning song, "My Story", was determined exclusively by a public televote.[5]
Since Georgia was a debut country, they were drawn to compete in the semi final. Here, they drew the 6th position, after Iceland and before Montenegro. They placed 8th place with 123 points in the semi finals, thus qualifying.[6] In the final, they drew the 11th position after Greece and before Sweden. Georgia placed 12th in the final with 97 points.[7]
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