America Song Contest 1

Official logo of America Song Contest 1

## Vote

### Voting system

10 favourites are awarded 12, 10, then 8 through 1 points by all participants. (+ the same system for televoting)

## America Song Contest

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**America Song Contest 1** was the inaugural edition of America Song Contest. The song reveal was opened on 27/12/2020 and closed on 30/12/2020 (voting opened on the same day and closed on 4/1/2021).  Greenland and  Colombia failed to submit their songs, with that they were automatically disqualified. Results of America Song Contest 1 were announced on 8/1/2020.

## Hosting Informations

### Host City

**Greensboro** (formerly **Greensborough**) is a city in and the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, United States. It is the third-most populous city in North Carolina, the 68th-most populous city in the United States, and the largest city in the Piedmont Triad metropolitan region. At the 2010 United States Census the city population was 269,666. In 2019, the estimated population was 296,710. Three major interstate highways (Interstate 40, Interstate 85, and Interstate 73) in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina were built to intersect at this city.

In 1808, "Greensborough" (the spelling before 1895) was planned around a central courthouse square to succeed Guilford Court House as the county seat. The county courts were thus placed closer to the geographical center of the county, a location more easily reached at the time by the majority of the county's citizens, who depended on horse and foot for travel.

In 2003, the previous Greensboro – Winston-Salem – High Point metropolitan statistical area (MSA) was re-defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. This region was separated into the Greensboro–High Point MSA and the Winston-Salem MSA. The 2010 population for the Greensboro–High Point MSA was 723,801. The combined statistical area (CSA) of Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point, popularly referred to as the Piedmont Triad, had a population of 1,599,477.

### Host Person

**Ellen Lee DeGeneres** (born January 26, 1958) is an American comedian, television host, actress, writer, and producer. She starred in the sitcom *Ellen* from 1994 to 1998 and has hosted her syndicated TV talk show, *The Ellen DeGeneres Show,* since 2003.

Her stand-up career started in the early 1980s and included a 1986 appearance on *The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson*. As a film actress, DeGeneres starred in *Mr. Wrong* (1996), *EDtv* (1999), and *The Love Letter* (1999), and provided the voice of Dory in the Pixar animated films *Finding Nemo* (2003) and *Finding Dory* (2016); for *Nemo*, she was awarded the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first time an actress won a Saturn Award for a voice performance. In 2010, she was a judge on *American Idol* for its ninth season.

She starred in two television sitcoms, *Ellen* from 1994 to 1998 and *The Ellen Show* from 2001 to 2002. During the fourth season of *Ellen* in 1997, she came out as lesbian in an appearance on *The Oprah Winfrey Show*. Her character, Ellen Morgan, also came out to a therapist played by Winfrey, and the series went on to explore various LGBT issues, including the coming-out process. In 2008, she married her longtime girlfriend Portia de Rossi.

## Results

### Final

21 countries participated in the final of America Song Contest 1 in Greensboro.  Guatemala,  Panama and  Venezuela failed to submit their votes, so they all got -50 points.