Azerbaijan, Baku, May 17 / Trend Vugar Imanov, Elchin Mehdiyev /
A rehearsal of Eurovision-2012 Lithuanian representative Donny Montell has been held on the Baku Crystal Hall stage in Baku today, Trend reported. The singer will perform in the second semi-final with "Love Is Blind" song in English.
Donatas Montvidas was born in Vilnius. His music career began at "Song-Song" contest in which he won. He graduated from Balys Dvarionas music school. He is the winner of the TV projects "Dozen Lithuanian songs" and "Call for Stars". He won the Grand Prix at the festival "Slavic Bazaar" in Belarus in 2008. The contest was held among 22 representatives of different countries.
The 57th Eurovision Song Contest will be held in the Baku Crystal Hall. The arena has a capacity for up to 23,000 spectators.
Approximately 16,000 people will be able to attend each of the three Eurovision Song Contest live shows.
The semi-finals of the contest will be held on May 22 and May 24, while the final is on May 26. The logo for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest is 'Fire Flower', while the motto is Light your fire.
Azerbaijan won the right to host the prestigious European song contest after the victory of Eldar Gasimov and Nigar Jamal (Ell / Nikki) at Eurovision 2011 in Dusseldorf, Germany last May.
