Belarus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005

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Belarus selected their song in two stages, the first allowing the public to choose, and the second requiring a jury to make a final decision. The first round of the selction took place on December 25 and contained 14 songs of which the Belarussian public heard a voted for. The top three songs of this selction continued to the second round where on February 1, a professional jury chose Angelica Agurbash to perform the song "Boys and Girls". However, before the finalization of the entry, Angelica decided that the song she was chosen with would most likely not fair too well at Eurovision so she turned to alternatives. Israeli performer Svika Pick offered the song "Show Me Your Love", while Nikos Terzis and Nektarios Tyrakis offered Angelica "Love Me Tonight". Consequently, Angelica chose "Love Me Tonight" and performed a different song then the one originally chosen for her.

Angelica Agurbash is a model, singer, actress, and artistic performer in Belarus. Angelica has enjoyed titled such as the first Miss Belarus title, Miss Photo USSR, and Mrs Russia 2002. Between 1990 and 1995 she was in a group called Verasy and founded her art club ‘Lika’. When she left Verasy she became a highly successful solo artist releasing three albums – ‘Paper Moon’ (1995), ‘Night Without a Dream’ (1997) and ‘For You’ (1999). In 2002, Angelica released her album ‘The Farewell Kiss of Lika Yalinskaya’ featuring 13 compelling songs.

At Eurovision, Angelica created a spectacle out of her performance. With entertaining choreography and three costume changes, Belarus had one of the most appealing song presentations in 2005. At first Angelica wore a golden sheet, which was quickly pulled off to reveal a Victorian style dress, which went with the theme of the attire her male dancers wore. Close to the end of the song, Th Victorian dress gets pulled off to reveal a golden skin-tight body suit.

Final

№	Song	Singer	Place
1	Smile	Polina Smolova	2nd
2	Boys and Girls	Angelica Agurbash	1st
3	Moya lyubov - sladkiy yad	Natalia Tamelo	3rd

Individual Entries in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005

Albania - Andorra - Austria - Belarus - Belgium - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bulgaria - Croatia - Cyprus - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Iceland - Ireland - Israel - Latvia - Lithuania - Republic of Macedonia - Malta - Moldova - Monaco - Netherlands - Norway - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Russia - Serbia and Montenegro - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - Switzerland - Turkey - Ukraine - United Kingdom Note: Countries in italics are semi-finalists who did not advance to the final.