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Iriao
Iriao in 2018
Background information
Also known as	Ethno-Jazz Band Iriao
Origin	Georgia
Genres	Jazz ethno folk
Years active	2013–present

Members	David Malazonia Nugzar Kavtaradze Bidzina Murgulia Levan Abshilava Shalva Gelekva George Abashidze Mikheil Javakhishvili

Iriao (Georgian: ირიაო), also known as Ethno-Jazz Band Iriao, are a Georgian jazz and ethno folk group, led by David Malazonia (composition and keyboard). The band plays a combination of traditional Georgian polyphonic singing and jazz.^{[citation needed]} They performed at the 2014 edition of the Borneo Jazz Festival in Malaysia.^[1] They represented Georgia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal with the song "Sheni gulistvis" (English: "For You").^[2]

References

^ "Borneo Jazz - Iriao". Archived from the original on 6 January 2018. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
^ "Music band Iriao will present Georgia at 2018 ESC - 1TV". 1TV. Archived from the original on 1 January 2018. Retrieved 31 December 2017.

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Tamara Gachechiladze with "Keep the Faith"	Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018	Succeeded by Oto Nemsadze with "Sul tsin iare"

v t e Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest
National selections: Georgian Idol (former) The Voice Georgia (former)
Participation	2007 2008 ~~2009~~ 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 ~~2020~~ 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Artists	Nutsa Buzaladze Circus Mircus Eldrine Tamara Gachechiladze Sophie Gelovani Diana Gurtskaya Ethno-Jazz Band Iriao Iru Anri Jokhadze Sopho Khalvashi Tornike Kipiani Nika Kocharov Mariko Oto Nemsadze Sofia Nizharadze The Shin ~~Stephane and 3G~~ Nina Sublatti Nodi Tatishvili Young Georgian Lolitaz
Songs	"Echo" "Firefighter" "For You" "I'm a Joker" "Keep On Going" "Keep the Faith" "Lock Me In" "Midnight Gold" "One More Day" "Peace Will Come" "Shine" ~~"Take Me as I Am"~~ "Three Minutes to Earth" "Visionary Dream" "Warrior" "Waterfall" ~~"We Don't Wanna Put In"~~ "You"
Note: Entries scored out signify where Georgia did not compete. Italics indicate an entry in a future contest.

Countries

Final	Albania Australia Austria Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Hungary Ireland Israel Italy Lithuania Moldova Netherlands Norway Portugal Serbia Slovenia Spain Sweden Ukraine United Kingdom
Semi-finals	Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Croatia Georgia Greece Iceland Latvia Macedonia Malta Montenegro Poland Romania Russia San Marino Switzerland

Artists

Final	Saara Aalto Amaia and Alfred AWS Eugent Bushpepa DoReDoS Equinox Eleni Foureira Sanja Ilić and Balkanika Benjamin Ingrosso Mikolas Josef Madame Monsieur Jessica Mauboy Mélovin Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro Elina Nechayeva Netta Ryan O'Shaughnessy Cláudia Pascoal Rasmussen Alexander Rybak Cesár Sampson Michael Schulte Lea Sirk SuRie Waylon Ieva Zasimauskaitė
Semi-finals	Aisel Alekseev Christabelle Eye Cue Franka Gromee feat. Lukas Meijer The Humans Ethno-Jazz Band Iriao Jessika feat. Jenifer Brening Sevak Khanagyan Ari Ólafsson Vanja Radovanović Laura Rizzotto Julia Samoylova Sennek Yianna Terzi Zibbz

Songs

Final	"Bones" "Dance You Off" "La forza" "Fuego" "Higher Ground" "Hvala, ne!" "O jardim" "Lie to Me" "Mall" "Mercy" "Monsters" "My Lucky Day" "Nobody but You" "Non mi avete fatto niente" "Nova deca" "Outlaw in 'Em" "Storm" "That's How You Write a Song" "Together" "Toy" "Tu canción" "Under the Ladder" "Viszlát nyár" "We Got Love" "When We're Old" "You Let Me Walk Alone"
Semi-finals	"Crazy" "For You" "Forever" "Funny Girl" "Goodbye" "I Won't Break" "Inje" "Light Me Up" "Lost and Found" "A Matter of Time" "Oniro mou" "Our Choice" "Qami" "Stones" "Taboo" "Who We Are" "X My Heart"

List of Eurovision Song Contest 2018 jurors

Authority control databases
International	ISNI VIAF
Artists	MusicBrainz