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Live Blog: First Semi-Final 2021

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ROXEN, Romania, First Semi-Final, Rotterdam Ahoy, 18 May 2021 Photo: EBU / Andres Putting

Get ready for...Romania

Roxen from Romania is up next, singing Amnesia. It’s a heartfelt angsty ballad performed with the help of five barefoot contemporary dancers and a great deal of fog. According to Roxen, Amnesia "somehow manages to give a voice to all repressed feelings and to the people whose voices haven't been heard, in a way that for me is incredibly pure.”

ROXEN, Romania, First Semi-Final, Rotterdam Ahoy, 18 May 2021 EBU / Andres Putting