Australia - Montaigne - Technicolour

14 - 28 pts in semi 1

Montaigne (Jessica Serro) won the 2020 edition of Australia Decides and has been chosen to continue to the 2021 contest. She was however not able to travel to Rotterdam due to Australian Covid-19 restrictions. For Eurovision a pre-recorded live performance was used.

The song for Rotterdam is Technicolour. Montaigne wrote the song herself with Dave Hammer. 

March 5 was the official release.

Read all about Montaigne in 2020.

Versions

Technicolour

- digital March 5, Rotterdam 2CD

Technicolour - karaoke 

- karaoke on the official karaoke album (digital)

Don't Break Me 2020 single

Links and sources
Montaigne Website, FB

SBS Eurovision pages, reveal article

Moldova - Natalia Gordienko - Sugar

13 - 115 pts / 7 - 179 pts in semi 2

TRM, Moldovan TV,  announced that Natalia Gordienko as the Moldovan singer for the 2021 contest.
Here's the news.

Natalia's song Sugar was released on March 4. It's written by Dimitris Kontopoulos, Ilias Kokotos, Philippe Kirkorov, Sharon Vaughn and Fokas Evangelinos. The karaoke version was released on March 26

Watch and listen here

A Russian version Туз Буби was released on April 9. 

Here's the Russian video.

Natalia was also planned to sing in the 2020 contest with the song Prison. You can read all about that here. Also has a flashback to 2006 when she entered with Loca, a song with Arsenium and Connect-R.

Versions

Sugar

- digital 4-3, Rotterdam 2CD

2020's Prison

Туз Буби (Buby tuz) - Russian version (Наталья Гордиенко)

- digital 9-4

Sugar - first karaoke

- digital release (not on Spotify)

Sugar - official karaoke 

- 2nd karaoke on the official karaoke album (digital)

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Links and sources
TRM Eurovision Website, FB, 
Natalia Gordienko FB , 2020, Instagram