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The young Kristian Kostov is the successor of Poli Genova as Bulgarian Eurovision representative. That made broadcaster BNT and the EBU announced today.

Kostov is the day after tomorrow, on 15 March, seventeen years old, and will so as one of the youngest participants of this edition. In Kiev he will bring the song Beautiful Mess . That song is the work of identical the same team that If Love Was a Crime wrote. That gave the Eastern European country last year his best position ever in the Eurovision song contest, a fourth place in the final.

Kristian has a Bulgarian father and a mother. In 2014, he was in the final of The Voice Kids in Russia, with ex-Eurovision winner Dima Bilan as his coach. His song for the Eurovision song contest was announced this afternoon at 5 p.m. on the YouTube account of the Eurovision song contest.

The Bulgarian song: