Albania - Fall From The Sky - Arilena Ara

The first song for Rotterdam 2020:
Arilena Ara is the winner of the 58th Festivali I Këngës with the song Shaj (Shout or Scream).
The song is composed by Darko Dimitrov, Lazar Cvetkovski and the Albanian lyrics are by Lindon Berisha.
Listen here to the original studio version at Arilena's YT.

Shaj single / ESCversion

In Rotterdam the song was to be be performed in English as Fall From The Sky.
Here's the new version in English,
Shaj in Albanian was also released through the usual digital sources. It reads 2019 at Spotify but I'm pretty sure it has just appeared at the end of March 2020.

A digital compilation of Fest 58 was released on February 28 but it misses three songs. And yes, Shaj is one of those missing. (Thanks Frank!)

Albania is the first to have a new entry for 2021 and it's not Arilena.

Find out more here in 2021.

In 2023 Arilena released a digital live album Sounds Of Silence it includes a slightly different recording of Shaj and a longer version of Fall From The Sky.

She toured the album and both versions were also released as seperate digital tracks.

Versions
Fall From The Sky - single version
- Official 2CD

Fall From The Sky - live version

- digital album Sounds Of Silence (Fole publishing 2023)
Shaj - Albanian version

- first digital

Sjah - Live

- - digital album Sounds Of Silence
Fall From The Sky - karaoke
- digital releases
- karaoke also on the official karaoke album (digital)

Arilena Ara won the 2012/2013 season of X factor Albania.

Her biggest hit so far is Nëntori from 2017, also released in English (I’m sorry) and Russian (Ноябрь) and in variety of remixes.

Here latest single is Doja with Flori Mumajesi, released November 2019.

Composers Dimitrov and Cvetkovski also gave us Proud by Tamara Todevska, North Macedonia's best result in the contest ever.
Dimitrov also co-wrote the Macedonian entries of 2006 (Ninanajna by Elena Risteska), 2013 and 2014 and the Albanian 2015 song.

2017 hit I'm Sorry (Nëntori)

Links and sources:
Arilena Ara Website, FB

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