Kazakhstan in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020

Kazakhstan's national final took place on 26 September 2020. Twelve entries participated in the competition and the winner was selected by a 50/50 combination of votes from a jury and votes from the public.[3]

Artists were able to submit their entries between 10 August 2020 and 20 August 2020.[11] From 684 entries submitted, a nine-member jury panel selected 30 entries for the online semi-final.[12] The jury panel consisted of Zhenis Seidullaevich (composer), Dinara Bisembina (director of Khabar), Bagym Mukhitdenova (music producer), Kairat Baekenov (singer and composer), Erlan Bekchurin (music producer), Zhanar Dugalova (singer), Amre (singer), Dinaya (singer) and Madi Syzdykov (singer).[13][14]

On 31 August 2020, Khabar revealed the names of the composers that were directly invited to create the competing songs for the finalists. The invited composers were:[15]

The semi-final took place online between 24 and 31 August 2020 for users to vote for their favorite entries on Khabar's official website. The twelve entries with the most votes proceeded to the televised national final.[3][16]

The final took place on 26 September 2020. Twelve competing acts participated in a televised production where the winner was determined by a 50/50 combination of votes from jury members made up of music professionals and a public SMS vote.[18]

Karakat Bashanova (Kazakh: Қарақат Башанова, romanized: Qaraqat Bashanova, Kazakh pronunciation: [qɑɾɑqɑt βɑɕɑnovɑ]; born 11 March 2008)[20] is a Kazakh child singer. She represented Kazakhstan at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Warsaw, Poland, on 29 November 2020 with the song "Forever".

Bashanova was born in the village of Ryskulov,[21] Almaty Region in Kazakhstan on March 11, 2008. Karakat is now enrolled at a music boarding school named after famous Kazakh opera singer Kulyash Baiseitova, where she plays the piano and violin.[22] Karakat has participated in several singing contests in the region. She was a finalist in 'The Voice of Children 2018' and also placed third at the II open children's vocal festival 'Happy Child 2019'.[22]

"Forever" (Kazakh: Мәңгілікке, romanized: Máńgіlіkke) is a song by Kazakh singer Karakat Bashanova. It is composed by Khamit Shangaliyev, who had also composed Armanyńnan qalma (Kazakh: Арманыңнан қалма), the Kazakh entry for the 2019 contest,[22] and written by Ardak Yeleusiz[4] and Abulkhair Adam.[5] The song is dedicated to her deceased father.[21]

It represented Kazakhstan at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Warsaw, Poland.

The same voting system that was introduced in the 2017 edition will be used, where the results will be determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting.[24] Every country has a national jury that consists of three music industry professionals and two kids aged between 10 and 15 who are citizens of the country they represent. The rankings of those jurors are combined to make an overall top ten.[25]

The online voting consists of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 27 November 2020 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances is shown on junioreurovision.tv before the viewers can vote. After this, voters also have the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant's rehearsal. This first round of voting will end on Sunday 29 November at 16:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting will take place during the live show and begin right after the last performance and will be open for 15 minutes. International viewers will be able vote for a maximum of three songs.[26] They will also be able to vote for their own country's song. These votes will then be turned into points which will be determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song received 20% of the votes, it received 20% of the available points.

• Kazakhstan received 69 points from Online voting.