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Singer Diana Hajiyeva will represent Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest by 2017. The broadcaster ITV has informed that on her website.

Hajiyeva is domestically known under the name of her band, Denny. It is not yet known by what name they will participate at the song festival. She took part in the Eurovision heat already in 2011, but when she had to go to Ell and Nikki, which eventually also the Eurovision song contest that year on their name with Running Scared.

And yet is Diana not to her Eurovision Hajiyeva sample: last may, she was already in the backing vocals of Samra, who then sang on behalf of Azerbaijan. It will be the second consecutive time that the singer travels to the Eurovision song contest, although they are now more in the foreground. ‘ Denny ‘ broke two years back by in their own country with the single I Break Again:

It is not yet known when and how her song for Kiev will be chosen. Azerbaijan is the fifth country of which we know the candidate. Belgium, Netherlands, Cyprus and also of (FYR) Macedonia are the names already known.

Azerbaijan debuted in 2008 on the Eurovision song contest and won for the first and so far only time in 2011. After six times successively to have ended in the top ten, it went downhill after 2013. In the past three years ended the former Soviet State invariably in the middle bracket of the leader board.