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ANDORRA NOT COMING BACK ANYTIME SOON. HAVE A LOOK AT THEIR EUROVISION PAST

After the qualification for the final by San Marino (2014) and Czech Republic (2016) there's only one country left that has never made it: Andorra. And as Andorra seems to have no intention to participate again in the Eurovision song contest - sadly - after their six year run of misfortunes, let's have a look what they did offer us during those years 2004-2009. They debuted in 2004 with Marta Roure and Jugarem a estimar-nos , the first ever song in the contest in Catalan. She scored 12 points in the semifinal (all of them from Spain!) and places 18th leaving behind Belarus, Monaco, Slovenia and Switzerland. Marta released her debut album shortly after but has since disappeared, at least from the internet. The year after Dutch born hotel director Marian van de Wal had the honors with Anabel Conde in the backing vocals with La mirada interior . She scored 27 points (10 from Spain and 7 from the Netherlands, and 6 from Albania and 4 from Moldova), that was enough for ...

Andorra leaves EBU. And Eurovision

Sad news to those who like me waited for the return of the Andorran broadcaster RTVA to return to Eurovision. Due financial reasons the broadcaster follows Luxembourg and exists EBU altogether. Shame. But we can always remember and cherish country's less shiny Eurovision history. Many of these songs deserved better than they actually did. None of them made the final, not even the big favourites Anonymous in Helsinki and Jenny even came last... But here they are: 2004 Marta Roure - Jugarem a estimar-nos (18th in semifinal) live at ESC 2005 Marian Van De Wal - La mirada interior (23rd in semifinal) live at ESC 2006 Jenny - Sense tu (23rd in semifinal) live at ESC 2007 Anonymous - Salvem el món (12th in semifinal) live at ESC 2008 Gisela - Casanova (16th in semifinal) live at ESC 2009 Susanne Georgi - La teva decision (Get a life) (15th in semifinal) live at ESC