Bulgaria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005

ESC National Year
Year = 2005
Country = BUL
Preselection = National Final
Preselection date = Semi-final
22 January 2005
Final
12 February 2005
Entrant = Kaffe
Song = "Lorraine"
SF result = "Failed to qualify" (19th)
Final result =
Bulgaria was represented at Eurovision 2005 by the group Kaffe and the song "Lorraine".The Bulgarian Final was held on February 12th, 2005 at the Grand Concert Hall. Before the final there was a semi-final on January 21st with a total of 24 competing songs. A professional jury selected 12 of these 24 songs to go forward to the final where the winner was chosen by televoting. A jazz inspired band Kaffe was elected with the song "Lorraine", which is written by Vesselin Vesselinov-Eko & Orlin Pavlov and composed by Vesselin Vesselinov-Eko.

Kaffe was founded in 1999 under the name Badu. However, the musicians had their own projects to pursue so the group went on hiatus in 2001. When they returned under the name Kaffe, they began to produce many hit songs in Bulgaria such as "There Again", "Isn’t It Love", "No More" and the number 1 bestseller "Instead Of Me". In 2004, the band was crowned ‘band of the year’. In 2003, Kaffe were awarded the third place during the International Music Festival ‘The Golden Stag’ in Romania. The European headquarters of MTV invited the band to make a special video for TV and soon their first album, 'Alone’, was released and was a big seller.

National Final