Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008

Piosenka dla Europy 2008 was the final of the Polish Commission for contribution to Euro Vision Song Contest 2008. It held 23 February 2008 in the Polish capital Warsaw. The show was transferred from the Polish television TVP1 and TV Polonia, they were moderated by Katarzyna Sowińska and Radosław Brzózka.

The field has been expanded from the previous year, instead of ten occurred in thirteen performers, with three performers were drawn by a wildcard, a band was disqualified before the show, as they had not complied with the rules. It was also before the draw wildcard participants of Artist Krzysztof Zalewski because of the same rule, which says that the song may not be publicly published prior to October 1, disqualified. For it was one of the five replacement performer at the start.

A contribution was in Polish, eleven in English.

Unlike 2007, there was next to the televoting and SMS ', the viewer still a nine-member jury, which gave their voices.

Winners of the preliminary decision was Isis Gee with the song For Life.

  • 2.1 Finalist
  • 2.2 Substitute participants

General Information

Qualifications for the finals of the preliminary decision

  • Deadline: January 2, 2008
  • Date of publication of Participants: January 7, 2008
  • Number of Submissions: 100
  • Number of selected artist: 10 ( 5 as a replacement 3 wildcards)
  • Jury: Magda Czapińska, Zuzanna Łapicka - Olbrychska, Agata Krysiak, Ryszard Poznakowski, Robert Obcowski, Tomasz Deszczyński, Paweł Sztompke, Artur Orzech and Piotr Klatt - Chairman of the jury

Final

  • Date: February 23, 2008
  • Time: 20:15
  • Location: Studio TVP "S5", Block "F"; Warsaw, ul Jana Pawła Woronicza 17
  • Moderators: Katarzyna Sowińska and Radosław Brzózka
  • Vote winner: Voices of the jury televoting and SMS ' viewers
  • Jury: Maryla Rodowicz, Paweł Sztompke, Adrian Stanisławski and Janusz Kosiński
  • Special guests: Natalia Kukulska and In-Grid in a duet with Jacek Stachursky

Participant

Finalist

Substitute participant

The band Plastic had qualified for the finals, as Krzysztof Zalewski was disqualified.

Wildcards

On 8 February 2008, the singers Izabela Kopeć and Natasza Urbańska and the band Żywiołak qualified by the wildcard for the finals. Żywiołak was disqualified for rule-breaking few days later. Since this was so late, this band was not replaced by another performer.

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