RTVSLO, the Slovenian national broadcaster, has announced that Raiven and Štras will host EMA 2025.
Raiven and Štras will host EMA 2025. Raiven represented Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with “Veronika”. She also hosted EMA in 2018. Raiven commented on her presenting role:
“Presenting EMA is my responsibility to connect the event with the people who follow it with great expectations and passion. The thought of EMA brings me a lot of nostalgia. I have experience as a performer and as a presenter, so above all, I want EMA to be a stage where music and creativity meet without unnecessary criticism and pressure.”
Joining Raiven will be Gregor Strasbergar, better known as Štras. Štras is the lead singer of MRFY and his role as a presenter of EMA will be his first presenting role on RTVSLO. He stated:
“The thought of presenting Ema is not a great pleasure for me yet. It’s more stressful. Probably half the country is going to slam me, but thankfully they’re going to slam our new representative more.”
On January 25, one week before the final of EMA, the preview show Ema pred Emo (EMA before EMA), will be broadcast. In the show, which will be hosted by Bernarda Žarn and Jože Robežnik, the EMA 2025 finalists will talk about their preparations for EMA. Short snippets of all 12 songs will also be revealed. In addition, former Slovenian Eurovision representatives will also be guests on the programme.
The EMA 2025 artists are:
Eva Pavli – “Niti” (Neither)
KiKi – “O-ou!”
Jon Vitezič – “Vse ti dam” (I give you everything)
Trine – “Grace”
Klemen – “How much time do we have left?”
Žan Videc – “Pusti da gori” (Let it burn)
ANNA – “Čau” (Bye)
July Jones – “New Religion”
ZveN- “Divja” (Wild)
PolarAce – “Kind”
Astrid & The Scandals – “Touché”
RAI – “Frederick’s Dead”
EMA 2025 will take place on February 1. The results will be decided across two rounds of voting. In the first round, five juries will award points Eurovision style (1-8, 10 and 12). Each jury will contain five members and will contain members from a certain group of people. The five juries are:
Music jury (singers, musicians, producers, songwriters creators etc.)
Television jury (editors, presenters, directors, choreographers etc.)
Radio jury (radio editors, journalists, presenters, etc.)
OGAE Slovenia jury
International Eurovision influencer jury (bloggers, vloggers, online journalists etc.)
After the juries cast their votes, the top two songs will advance to the superfinal. In the superfinal, the winner will be chosen by public voting. The winning entry will represent Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel.
Raiven represented Slovenia at Eurovision 2024, qualifying for the Grand Final with her song “Veronika”. She came in 23rd place, scoring 27 points.
Image Source: RTVSLO/Urša Premik | Source: RTVSLO
Slovenia was one of three countries to join the Eurovision Song Contest in 1993. The country qualified through a specially organised selection round called “Kvalifikacija za Millstreet” which was hosted in Slovenia, seven countries competed for three spots in Eurovision 1993. The country has participated in 22 editions of the Eurovision Song Contest. Their best result came in 1995 when Darja Švajger finished 7th scoring a total of 84 points. She is closely followed by Nuša Derenda who finished 7th in the 2001 contest with 70 points.
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