{"id":5512,"date":"2016-03-12T22:17:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T21:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/?p=5512"},"modified":"2016-03-13T09:46:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T08:46:17","slug":"donny-montell-opnieuw-naar-het-songfestival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/stockholm2016\/donny-montell-opnieuw-naar-het-songfestival\/","title":{"rendered":"Donny Montell again to the Eurovision song contest"},"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\">Donny Montell may again to the Eurovision song contest for Lithuania, this time with the song <em>I&#8217;ve been Waiting for This Night<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>After a long series of preliminary rounds tonight then finally became the finalist of Lithuania. Both professional jury and audience were clear, Donny Montell got from both the maximum score.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donny Montell <\/strong>represented Lithuania at the <a href=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/geschiedenis\/2012-bakoe-finale\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eurovision Song Contest by 2012<\/a>. He was then 14th with the song <em>Love Is Blind<\/em>. And he was blind, because he wore a blindfold on stage. This year he may try match that performance and, if it is, to improve the Lithuanians.<\/p>\n<p>Montell is already <strong>the seventh artist who returns<\/strong> to the Eurovision stage, an absolute record in the history. In addition to Lithuania are also Malta, Montenegro, (FYR) Macedonia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Iceland and Bulgaria by &#038; veterans represented.<\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;ve been Waiting for This Night<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fitvids-video\">\n<div class=\"container-lazyload preview-lazyload container-youtube\"><a class=\"lazy-load-youtube preview-lazyload preview-youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MSncll5CG-I\" video-title=\"Donny Montell - I've Been Waiting For This Night\" title=\"Play Video \"Donny Montell - I've Been Waiting For This Night\"\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#000\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MSncll5CG-I<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Last year<\/strong> Lithuania still took out the final with the song <em>This Time<\/em>, sung by Monika and Ravisankar. They stranded on a 18th place. This year, Donny trying where to make it from the first half of the second semifinal, on Thursday 12 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania has finally chosen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5519,"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":[348,9],"tags":[883,1071,219,390,17,1546,1547,19,172,18,819],"class_list":["post-5512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lt","category-stockholm2016","tag-donny-montell","tag-eurovisie","tag-eurovisiesongfestival","tag-eurovisiesongfestival-2016","tag-eurovision","tag-lithouwen","tag-lithuania","tag-songfestival","tag-songfestival-2016","tag-stockholm","tag-stockholm-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}