Music band of Pyotr Nalich passes to Eurovision 2010 contest final

Television viewers and jury all over Europe thus determined the best 10 of 17 singers that performed in the first semi-final. Together with the Russian participants other finalists are Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Greece, Portugal, Belarus, Serbia, Belgium, Albania and Iceland.

The second semi-final will be held on May 27 and also 17 countries will participate in it, 9 of them will go to the final. Besides, the organisers of the competition - Great Britain, Germany, Spain and France, as well as the country host of the jubilee 55th Eurovision contest Norway - pass to the final automatically.

Peter Nalitch has become famous in Russia after the publication in 2007 on YouTube of the clip of his song "Guitar" (where he makes fun of himself with broken English lyrics and dubious film editing qualities). In about a month, 70,000 persons had already watched it. The Russian users of LiveJournal were sending each other the link to the song, which became quickly famous. After that, interviews and articles were made about Peter in some Russian papers.

In 2007, Peter had already about 40 songs written down, all available on his website for free. Fans archived them and you can still find them on the web. It is with these songs that Peter gave his first concert, on November 9th 2007, in the club "Apshu" in Moscow; Kazinform cites Itar-Tass. See www.itar-tass.com for full version.