{"id":454,"date":"2015-08-11T17:20:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T15:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/?p=454"},"modified":"2018-11-15T17:10:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T16:10:15","slug":"jan-smit-zoekt-junior-songfestival-kandidaat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/junior-2015\/jan-smit-zoekt-junior-songfestival-kandidaat\/","title":{"rendered":"John Smith are looking for Junior Eurovision candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #d49d6e; font-weight: bold;\" class=\"post-p-lead\">Unfortunately this article is not available in English and has been automatically translated. Please visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/\">homepage<\/a> for all English content or get an overview of all English articles <a href=\"http:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/english\">here<\/a>. You can also request a translation by sending us an <a href=\"mailto:info@songfestival.be\">email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"lead\">From 18 August start the cluster with the auditions for the AVRO Junior songfestival in Bulgaria. Jan Smit will present that selection. On 3 October, we know the winner.<\/p>\n<p>John Smith, the co-commentator for Cornald Maas during the song contest for adults, the Dutch selection of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Hundreds of children between 10 and 15 years are enrolled with a self-penned number.<\/p>\n<p>The participating boys and girls and their song will be assessed by a professional jury consisting of Charly Luske, Dutch <strong>Edsilia Rombley<\/strong> and Brownie. The auditions run until 27 August. There the candidates selected for two semifinals on 19 and 26 september.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Make-over<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pending the semi-finals, participants will be transformed into real stars. They follow song-and-dance class, do a professional photo shoot, take a <strong>video clip<\/strong> on for their own and for a common number and get a makeover. In addition, they also entered the studio for the recordings of the cd and they get the opportunity to work together with some producers.<\/p>\n<p>The transmitter also provides weekly <strong><em>Junior Eurovision Reports<\/em><\/strong> in which the viewers can follow the finalists to the final on 3 October. Who wins that day, to the Junior Eurovision in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 21 november.<\/p>\n<p>Last year sent <em>Around<\/em>Julia with Netherlands. She was then eighth. Italy won the festival thanks to the 15-year-old Vincenzo Cantiello with <em>Tu primo grande amore<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Smith presents the Dutch preliminary round for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. On 3 October, we know the winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,356],"tags":[146,149,148,145,147,141,144,139,142,143],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-junior-2015","category-nl","tag-avrotros","tag-brownie-dutch","tag-charly-luske","tag-cornald-maas","tag-edsilia-rombley","tag-jan-smit","tag-julia","tag-junior-eurovisiesongfestival","tag-junior-eurovision","tag-vincenzo-cantiello"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["nl","fr","en"],"languages":{"nl":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"fr":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}