{"id":5042,"date":"2016-02-19T09:30:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T08:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/?p=5042"},"modified":"2016-02-19T19:01:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T18:01:55","slug":"poli-genova-opnieuw-naar-songfestival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/stockholm2016\/poli-genova-opnieuw-naar-songfestival\/","title":{"rendered":"Poli Genova to Eurovision again"},"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=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/\">homepage<\/a> for all English content or get an overview of all English articles <a href=\"https:\/\/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\">What was rumoured for some time, is now also officially confirmed by Bulgarian broadcaster BNT: singer Poli Genova will represent her country for the second time in the Eurovision Song Contest.<\/p>\n<p>After Kaliopi (FYR) Macedonia, Dane from Bosnia Herzegovina, Bojan Jovovi\u0107 &#038; from Montenegro and Ira Losco from Malta, Poli Genova is already the fifth confirmed ex-participant who returns to the game. Last year, she was already in the spotlight as host of the <a href=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/junior-2015-resultaten\/\" target=\"_blank\">Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015<\/a>, but at Eurovision fans, she is better known by its participation from 2011. <a href=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/geschiedenis\/2011-dusseldorf-2e-halve-finale\/\" target=\"_blank\">Five years back finished third in D\u00fcsseldorf in the semifinal<\/a> with the Bulgaarstalige <em>Na Inat<\/em>. It is not yet confirmed in what language Genova now will sing, and when the song will be released.<\/p>\n<p>With a <strong>tweet<\/strong> on the official twitter account that broadcaster BNT for the Eurovision song contest, the news was broadcast.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fitvids-video\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ok, ok \u2013 some of you got it right. The delay was becasue of that damn &#8216; dress <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/om1ZWt70EE\">pic.twitter.com\/om1ZWt70EE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Eurovision2016?src=hash\">#Eurovision2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eurovision Bulgaria (@bg_eurovision) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bg_eurovision\/status\/700589943865942016\">February 19, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The tweet on the past pauzeact that parodies the Genova JESC, in which she desperately searched for her dress:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fitvids-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IkWvHrR0Bms?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p><strong>Bulgaria returns this year back to the Eurovision song contest.<\/strong> The last participation was in 2013. The country made his debut 11 years ago and took out the final only once, in 2007. This year, Poli fulfilling in the second half of the second semifinal, on Thursday 12 may \u2013 just like our Laura Tesoro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She is already the fifth confirmed returning artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1006,"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":[331,9],"tags":[169,390,635,172,819,1495],"class_list":["post-5042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bg","category-stockholm2016","tag-bulgarije","tag-eurovisiesongfestival-2016","tag-poli-genova","tag-songfestival-2016","tag-stockholm-2016","tag-wheres-my-dress"],"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\/5042","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}