{"id":36959,"date":"2026-05-10T08:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/36959\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T08:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:53:10","slug":"%f0%9f%87%b1%f0%9f%87%b9-lithuania-lion-ceccahs-eurovision-backing-singers-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/36959\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddf9 Lithuania: Lion Ceccah&#8217;s Eurovision Backing Singers Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LRT has revealed that Lion Ceccah is joined in Vienna by four backing singers for his performance at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>Justinas Stanevi\u010dius, Justa Rube\u017ei\u016bt\u0117, Greta Pauk\u0161t\u0117 and Diana Anisko are accompanying Lion Ceccah at the 70th Eurovision Song Contest, providing live backing vocals for \u201cS\u00f3lo Quiero M\u00e1s\u201d. Among the backing singers, Justa tried to represent Lithuania at Eurovision 2023 with \u201cWhen I\u2019ll Find You\u201d with Diana Anisko being a backing vocalist for two acts in the Lithuanian selection in 2023 and 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The rules of the Eurovision Song Contest have, since 2021, allowed for backing vocals to be pre-recorded. However, Lithuania is one of a handful of countries that have opted to use live backing vocals for their performance, including Estonia and Finland. <\/p>\n<p>Lion Ceccah will represent Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 with \u201cS\u00f3lo quiero m\u00e1s\u201d. You can find out more about Lion Ceccah here:<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrt.lt\/naujienos\/laisvalaikis\/13\/2921135\/lion-ceccah-pritariantysis-vokalistas-justinas-vien-buvimas-cia-yra-svajones-issipildymas?brid=YWdncwF2cAgKyYg-9-npi5bSIkCh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LRT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest+<\/p>\n<p>Lithuania debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994. However, their debut appearance saw Lithuania finish in last place with nul points. Lithuania didn\u2019t return to the contest until 1999 when Aiste finished 20th with the song \u201cStrazdas\u201d. Lithuania\u2019s best result came in 2006 when LT United performed \u201cWe Are The Winners\u201d. They finished 6th in the final with a total of 162 points. Lithuania has only finished in the top 10 on two other occasions: in 2016 with \u201cI\u2019ve Been Waiting For This Night\u201d by Donny Montell and in 2021 with \u201cDiscoteque\u201d by The Roop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LRT has revealed that Lion Ceccah is joined in Vienna by four backing singers for his performance at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20858],"tags":[20859,20860,24178,21028],"class_list":{"0":"post-36959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eurovision","8":"tag-eurovision","9":"tag-eurovision-song-contest-2026","10":"tag-lion-ceccah","11":"tag-moments"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}