Azerbaijan, Baku, May 23 /Trend/
We are satisfied with our performance, Romania's Mandinga band members said at the Eurovision-2012 Mandinga said at the press conference in Baku Crystal Hall, Trend reported.
"We feel very happy to be here, we hope we will be ine the finals," they said.
The group added its preparing for the finals, hoping for the best.
In the Finals, Romania will go under #14.
Mandinga group with "Zaleilah" song will represent Romania in Eurovision-2012 song contest.
Mandinga is a group performing music in the style of latin and pop. Helen is a vocalist of the group.
Earlier, the group has already attempted to participate in Eurovision song contest.
Mandinga group participated in the national selection tour in 2005 but did not win.
Moments ago first Semi-Final of the Eurovision-2012 song contest has finished.
The participants from Romania (Mandinga), Moldova (Pasha Perfeny), Iceland (Greta Salome & Jonsi), Hungary (Compact Disco), Denmark (Soluna Samay), Albania (Rona Nishliu), Cyprus (Ivi Adamou), Greece (Eleftheria Eleftheriou), Russia (Buranovskie Babushki), Ireland (Jedward) reached the final following the first semifinal of Eurovision-2012 song contest in Baku today.
As a result of the voting, Eurovision participants from Montenegro, Latvia, Switzerland, Belgium, Finland, Israel, San Marino, Austria left the contest.
The second semi-final will be held on May 24 and the grand final on May 26. Eighteen more countries will participate in the second Semi-Final of the contest on May 24.