Kabardino-Balkaria in the Türkvizyon Song Contest

Kabardino-Balkaria (presented at the 2013 and 2014 contests as Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia) are one of the twenty-four participating countries and regions competing in the first Türkvizyon Song Contest. Despite being two separate republics, they sent a joint competitor in 2013, to represent the both of them.^[1]

History

Kabardino-Balkaria made their debut in the Türkvizyon Song Contest at the 2013 festival, in Eskişehir, Turkey.^[1][2] Kabardino-Balkaria selected their participant on 1 December 2013, a national selection was held in the Karachay-Cherkessia Capital Cherkessk at the Avenue Restaurant, a total of 12 artists competed, the winner was Eldar Zhanikaev with "Adamdı bizni atıbız" (Имя тебе-человек).^[3] The contest in 2013 was broadcast on channel 9 The Wave as Elbrusoid the organiser of the nations participation is not a television station.

On 22 July 2014 Kabardino-Balkaria confirmed their participation in the 2014 contest.^[4] It was announced that an open national selection would be held, songs would be submitted to the Ministry of Culture of Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia, with the songs going on to perform in a selection in Cherkessk.^[5] It was announced that online voting would help select the winner,^[6] however due to low submissions this did not occur. The final took place on 28 September 2014, 10 artists competed, Eldar Zhanikaev was selected with the song "Barama" (Барама).^[7]

Contestants

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