Eurovision will be exported to the United States. As Variety reports, the European singing competition will take place in 2021 in an American version. Called The American Song Contest , the show will offer professional artists from the fifty states of the country, to compete vocally, while representing their region.
As for Eurovision, the competition will be broadcast on television and divided into several qualifying phases, with of course the grand final.
Music to bring people together
Behind this American version, there will be in particular Christer Björkman, representative of Sweden at Eurovision 1992 and co-producer of this new project. “It's a great privilege to be able to use everything we know about this format, to start all over again from the beginning and to present it to an audience that has no history with it”, a- he estimated with the American site. A chance, but also a big challenge that Ben Silverman, the executive producer, "has been trying to adapt for 20 years". But for him the time has come to get started.
“As America is more divided than ever and we face many issues that divide us, the one [thing] that really unites us is culture,” he told Variety. She can bring people together by celebrating their diversity, their differences, and drawing everyone around the love of music and the love of song. »Will the concept appeal to viewers across the Atlantic? Answer next year. As for the European competition, it will be held in May 2021, if all goes well.
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