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}} "Zaleilah" is a song by Romanian Latino band Mandinga. It premiered in early September, 2011 and it serves as the lead single off their fifth studio album ''Club de Mandinga''. The band premiered the song live at the 2011 Romanian Music Awards on September 16. It was performed at a New Year's Eve event at Romexpo and live during the X Factor finale, the day after. The band shot a music video for the song in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in early 2012. It premiered in February. The same month the band, encouraged by their fans, submitted the song for the Eurovision National Song. They passed towards the grand final. They won the National Final and so the song represented Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. The song was performed at the first half of the first semi-final and on the finals, on May 22 and 26 in Baku, Azerbaijan. ==Background== Mandinga is a Romanian Latino band consisting of around ten musicians. They separated from the former lead vocalist Elena Gheorghe in 2006 with the new lead singer being Elena Ionescu. After the breakup and adding new members to the group, the band re-oriented into Eurodance influences, but stuck to their Latin roots. In 2010 they recorded some songs written and produced by the Romanian producer, singer-songwriter and musician Costi Ioniţă. Costi Ionita was nominated at the beginning of 2012 at the Grammy Awards, section "Best reggae album".One of the songs to be recorded later in 2011 was "Zaleilah". The title is the name of the dance they perform during the choreography, while the lyrics talk about a perfect love between soloist Elena Ionescu and her love interest. The song starts with the lines "Mandinga/Everyday/Mandinga/Zaleih-lah-leih-lah-leih". The orchestration presents a Cimpoi (Romanian bagpipe), a saxophone, drums, a flute and a piano. The song was a success all over Romania in early 2012 and the fans encouraged Mandinga to submit it to the Romanian pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. The song passed the selection and entered the grand final as the 10th song to be performed on March 10, the year when Mandinga turned 10 years of activity. "Zaleilah" was performed after Miss Mary's "Rollin'" and before T&L's "Twilight". After the voting ended, it was announced that Mandinga was the favorite with 7,000 votes thus getting 12 points from the televoting. The juries gave Mandinga 85 points converted into 10 points. They won the selection with a total of 22 points and a margin of 3 from the runner-up "Şun-ta" by Electric Fence. As a result they represented Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 which was held at the Baku Crystal Hall in Baku, Azerbaijan. They performed 6th in the first semi-final on May 22,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=47303&_t=follow_the_end_of_the_super-weekend_on_eurovision.tv )〕 and finished 3rd to qualify for the grand final. The song eventually finished in 12th position with 71 points. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zaleilah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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