THIS YEAR'S ENTRY

 SELECTION
As far back as September, Bulgarian broadcaster BNT, were making plans to replace their normal multi-artist national final, with a new selection process. A month later, it was confirmed that for the first time, Bulgaria has chosen its Eurovision performer internally and that local star Miro (Miroslav Kostadinov) would represent the country in Oslo. Miro performed five songs in a special presentation show, screened on February 7th and for the following weeks these were layed on local radio. The winning song was chosen at the Bulgarian national final which was held on February 28th at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia and hosted by Dragomir Draganov. Miro again sang all the songs and the winner was chosen by televoting. The clear winner, taking almost 50% of the votes was "Angel Si Ti" (You Are an Angel", which Miro had also written and composed.

 BIOGRAPHY
Miroslav Dimov Kostadinov was born on the 10th of March 1976 in Dobrich and will be Bulgaria's 6th ever entry in the Eurovision Song Contest.

From 1994 till 1999 Miro won awards of 11 prestigious international festivals. In 1999 Galena Kurdova and Miro started a project later called KariZma. All singles of this duet became hits in Bulgaria. After 7 years on the top of the charts, the duet Karizma released their first album Eklisiast. One year later, Miro started his solo career and after a few months he became Bulgaria's number 1 singer. In his career, Miro has won all prestigious musical awards of the Bulgarian top media outlets. He released his first solo album in 2009, oMIROtvoren, which reached a sales record after the first week on the market. Miro has also created his own label - David & Light Entertainment. He embarked on a successful nation-wide tour in 2009 which was attended by thousands of his fans.

At the end of 2009, Miro was chosen by 51 Bulgarian composers, writers and media people to be the country's representative in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest. Lots of songs were specially composed for him for a national final, and Miro presented 5 of them in a televised show on the 28th of February where his self-composed entry Angel Si Ti proved to be the most popular and was elected as Bulgaria's entry for Europe's favourite TV show.

 REACTION
"Angel Si Ti" was always the favourite song to represent Bulgaria in Oslo and Miro has done several international appearances to promote the song and has made one of the best promotional videos of the year. The song has found a place in the lower middle section of the rankings, based on internet polls and bookmakers. Bulgaria is not among the favourites to qualify from the second semi-final, and can be backed at 300/1 to win the contest.

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