Lithuania: Donny Montell - Eurovision 2016

Lithuania's Donny Montell will sing 'I‘ve been waiting for this night' at SEMI-FINAL 2 of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, Sweden.

Donny Montell

Donny Montell: Lithuania's 2016 Eurovision entry (Source Eurovision.tv) Source: Eurovision

Another Eurovision returnee young Donny Montell represented Lithuania back at the 2012 contest with a literal staging of “Love is Blind”.
Montell promised his home nation that he’d return to the contest and he convincingly won, what is arguably, the longest and most complicated of all the national selections.  

“I’ve Been Waiting For This Night” has a chorus aching to be the theme for a sporty car commercial and is a slightly slicker version of Ireland’s “Sunlight”. So it's a shame to see them both drawn in this second Semi Final as they may inadvertently cancel each other out when it comes to the crucial televote.  

Montell has a knack for great mid-tempo pop and he’ll probably advance Lithuania to another appearance in the Grand Final. Skémés Donny!

Watch Donny Montell's official video for 'I‘ve been waiting for this night':

Watch Donny's video interview:

The Eurovision Song Contest will be broadcast on SBS’s Eurovision Weekend - Friday 13, Saturday 14 and Grand Final Sunday 15 May, 7.30pm on SBS, with LIVE early morning broadcasts from 5am on Wednesday 11, Friday 13 and Sunday 15 May.

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