The first rehearsals of the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest started in the International Exhibition Centre in Kiev, Ukraine started taking place yesterday, and the ESCBubble team have been keeping an eagle-eye on the proceedings from the press centre.

As well as blogging on the daily rehearsals, and keeping you up-to-date with the latest news – the team will also be chatting to the 2017 participants as we move towards the Semi-finals next week.

Yesterday, we spoke to Montenegro‘s entrant, Slavko Kalezić. In the interview, he chats to Melissa about his first rehearsal on stage in the venue, the addition of the falsetto to his song, his ambitious performance, and the striking outfit that he’ll be wearing on stage!

You can watch our interview with Slavko below:

Slavko will compete in the 1st Semi-final on Tuesday, May 9th with his song, “Space”. You can watch the official music video to his song below: