Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012

The Swiss preliminary decision to Euro Vision Song Contest 2012 took place The big decision show on 10 December 2011 under the title. The winner was the band Sinplus from the canton of Ticino with the song Unbreakable.

System

Just one day after the Euro Vision Song Contest 2011, in which Switzerland reached last place in the final with Anna Rossinelli, it was announced that for 2012, a similar pre-decision principle is applied. The final, which will take place as last year in the Bodensee- Arena in Kreuzlingen, includes 14 songs. Six of them come from an Internet vote, two are nominated by the Italian-speaking channels RSI, three come from the French language station TSR and the German Radio DRS 3 Unlike usual, the songs are presented in two-minute versions, although they must be sent yet in three-minute versions. In addition, the contributions may not be published prior to 1 September 2011.

Preliminary

Internet selection

Between 1 and September 30, 2011 performers were their contributions on the website Upload eurovisionplattform.sf.tv. Nationality of singers and language of the songs were released, so that in addition to Swiss singers also participated performers among others from Belgium, Denmark, South Africa and the United States. A total of 221 ​​songs were submitted. The vote went from 16 to 30 October, the finalists were announced on 11 November.

Among the participants Lys Assia, the winner of the first Euro Vision Song Contest, the Dane Peter Andresen, who represented his country at the Euro Vision Song Contest 2007, the American Dance singer Ultra Naté, the winner found the third MusicStar Season Fabienne Louves in a duet with Patric Scott, the Germany sucht den Superstar participant Zazou Mall, winner of the South African counterparts, Heinz Winckler, and the British the X Factor participants Same Difference and Mary Lawson.

For the vote to register on the website was necessary every Internet user could distribute four votes on all the songs. To this end, the vote of a jury was 50 % / 50% ratio. On November 10, Lys Assia was confirmed with the song C'était ma vie, which was written by Ralph Siegel as the first qualifier on Twitter, the next day was followed by the remaining five songs.

Selection of DRS 3

The music department of DRS 3, selected from among the submissions on the Internet from three contributions. The nominees were published on 13 October; is Sara McLoud with Lost, Guillermo Sorya with baby, baby, baby and Patric Scott feat. Fabienne Louves with Real Love. The contribution of Sara McLoud however, had to be disqualified because it was published in 2009 as an acoustic version. The group Atomic Angels moved by the song Black Symphony.

Selection of RTS

In an Internet voting were ten selected from titles submitted 27. These were played on the radio and television RTS from 20 to 30 October 2011 and the internet and jury vote, the three finalists were selected on 3 November. The finalists are marked green.

Selection of RSI

In the Italian-speaking Switzerland a preliminary round, called Euro song took place in Agno on November 8. It was attended by seven songs, five of them were selected directly from the total of 22 submissions by a jury. The remaining 17 songs to put an internet vote, from this is two songs qualified for the Euro song. The jury wildcards were Gianluca Solci with Giro intorno, Rossella with Here I Am, Scilla Masquerade, Sinplus with Unbreakable and Vittoria Hyde with It's Your Love.

Final

The big decision show was held on 10 December 2011 in the Bodensee- Arena in Kreuzlingen and was moderated as in the previous year by Sven Epiney. A three-person jury consisting of the moderator Nik Hartmann, the musician and actor Carlos Leal and singer Stämpf, commented on the fourteen performances, but had no effect on outcome; the winner was chosen solely by a telephone vote.

Prior to the finale, especially Lys Assia received much attention in the media. Had she won, she would have been in 2012 by far the oldest singer with 88 years at the Euro Vision Song Contest that ever took part in the competition. In addition, they would have the record for the two most widely spaced participation in the contest occupied, with 54 years since their last in 1958., The 20 participating in the competition for composer Ralph Siegel, it would also have been.

Finally, however, the band won Sinplus with Unbreakable. Among the top three there were also Chiara Dubey and Ivo. The exact placements were announced after the broadcast.

Euro Vision Song Contest

Since Switzerland is not part of the Big Five ( the countries of the Euro vision that contribute the most money to the competition - Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom), took part in the country's first semi-final on May 22. This took place in the Azerbaijani capital Baku, as last year's winners Ell and Nikki came from this country. Ultimately Sinplus missed the finals, they finished 11th place.