Can Bonomo

Young accompanist Can Bonomo headed for Eurovision

Can Bonomo, one of the a lot of accepted names a part of adolescent Turkish music fans, will represent Turkey in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, the singer/songwriter’s administration appear Monday.

“This has been a huge abruptness for me,” Bonomo said during an anniversary aired reside Monday black on the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation’s (TRT) TRT-1 during the station’s black news.

Twenty-four-year-old Bonomo, an İzmir-born pop singer/songwriter who appear his admission anthology “Meczup” (Lunatic) in January 2011, said during the anniversary that he was “glad and accustomed to accept been accustomed the adventitious to represent Turkey abroad.”

Monday’s advertisement puts an end to months of belief over who will represent Turkey this year at Eurovision, an anniversary affair of agitation a part of the Turkish accessible that generally divides opinions. Social media networks in Turkey had been abuzz for weeks with rumors over who would represent the country in the 2012 contest, with several acts – including those of rocker Şebnem Ferah and pop singers Atiye, Hande Yener and Murat Boz -- arising as acceptable candidates on a speculated five-piece shortlist the TRT was because for the Turkish entrant.

The TRT, which is the Turkish accomplice of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) -- the anniversary organizer of the Eurovision contest, boasts a lath that annually selects an act to forward to the competition. The lath aswell takes into anniversary after-effects from online assessment acclamation on the TRT website as to which act should go to Eurovision, yet Bonomo was not a part of the acceptable candidates by Monday.

Bonomo said during Monday’s anniversary that he believed the TRT best to forward an advancing act such as his own to Eurovision would animate added ambitious musicians to access assimilate the Turkish music scene.

Bonomo said he is planning to plan on the song or songs he will adduce to the TRT for the challenge over the next ages or so, during which he affairs to break abroad from his active accepted of authoritative reside appearances beyond Turkey.

Asked which accent the song will be in, yet addition affair of accessible agitation in Turkey anniversary year advanced of Eurovision, Bonomo told TRT he has not yet accomplished a decision. “I accept a amount of account [for the song], some of them are in Turkish and some are in English. We’ll baddest the one that apparel me the most,” he added. Nevertheless, Bonomo noted, the song will be one “themed about the concepts of friendship, accord and happiness.”

Bonomo combines elements and instruments of bedrock and cyberbanking music in his self-described appearance alleged “İstanbul music,” about an indie pop complete afflicted by such assorted bands as The Beatles, The Shins, Wax Poetic, The Kinks and The Libertines. Bonomo said this complete is what authentic his admission album, and the song he will sing at Eurovision will absolutely be in the aforementioned style.

This year’s Eurovision Song Contest, the 57th copy of the anniversary event, is appointed for May 22-26 in the Azerbaijani basic of Baku. Azerbaijan won the 2011 challenge with Eldar & Nigar’s song “Running Scared.”