Selectia Nationala 2018, Romania’s national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest has just kicked off tonight with its first of five semi finals, where 12 acts are going to compete for the three places in the Final. The finalists are going to be selected entirely by the jury, televoting will have no say in the results tonight.

Tonight’s competing songs are as follows:

Alex Florea “Nobody Told Me It Would Hurt”
Alexia & Matei “Walking on Water”
CornEL “Take Me Away”
Echoes “Mirror”
Eduard Santha “Me som romales”
Elena Turcu “The Perfect Fall”
Hellen “From Underneath”
Johnny Bădulescu “Devoted”
Lina “A Love Worth Falling For”
Liviu Anghel “Rise Up”
Waleska “Renacer”

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