Lion Ceccah has won Lithuanian Eurovision pre-selection EUROVIZIJA.LT
The big final of Lithuania’s EUROVIZIJA.LT lit up Twinsbet Arena in Vilnius on the evening of Friday 27 Feburary.
After five weeks of semi-finals, during which 40 songs competed for the opportunity to represent Lithuania in Vienna, we had 11 entries take part in the EUROVIZIJA.LT final.
Hosts for the evening were Gabrielė Martirosian, Rimvydas Černiauskas and Eglė Kernagytė, taking us through all 11 performances as well as the voting that would ultimately decide the winner. For EUROVIZIJA.LT 2026, voting came via a jury and a public vote, with a 50% weighting given to each.
Sólo Quiero Más by Lion Ceccah won the public vote with over 38,000 votes; more than double the amount of the song which finished in the runner-up position.
In second place overall was the song Contact! by SHWR, while in third place was Hold My Own by Nøra Blu.
Sólo Quiero Más is written by Aurimas Galvelis and Tomas Alenčikas (Lion Ceccah).
It will perform in the Second Half of the First Semi-Final of the 70th Eurovision Song Contest on Tuesday 12 May.
Lion Ceccah
Born in 1991, in Vilnius, Tomas Alenčikas is a stage artist, performer, songwriter, advocate of drag culture and a specialist in musical theatre. From an early age, he became interested in the synthesis of visual art, music, poetry and dance.
Tomas received his primary musical education at the Karoliniškės Music School, where he studied violin from 2000 to 2007. At the same time, he developed his skills in ballroom and later street dance, taking part in competitions and performances.
In 2008, Tomas began participating in television projects and musical initiatives. In 2011, he joined the Vilnius University choir Pro Musica , where he gained valuable foundations in choral singing. In 2013, his participation in the project ‘Choir Wars’ inspired him to begin academic studies at Vilniaus Kolegija (University of Applied Sciences), where he completed a Bachelor’s degree in Musical Theatre.
After graduation, Tomas deepened his knowledge of makeup artistry, costume design and fashion, drawing inspiration from the famous ‘Club Kid’ movement. Together with like-minded artists, he founded the fashion troupe ‘The House of Kulkidz’.
Since 2017, he has become one of the most prominent figures in Lithuania’s drag culture scene. That same year, he appeared on the LRT television show X Factor, where his performance received significant public attention and became a turning point in his career.
In 2018, he debuted with the song Aš čia (produced by Vytautas Bikus), held his debut concert at St. Catherine’s Church in Vilnius, and founded the creative space Studio 91, which hosted exhibitions, performances and the first drag art workshops in Lithuania.
In 2019, the artist released the songs Your Cure, Sexy Song, This is Where I End My Doubts, Humana and Somewhere Out There, organised concerts and drag show evenings, and hosted Lithuania’s first drag festival.
In 2021, Tomas initiated the music festival One Day Famous, and in 2022, he presented his first EP, Mūsų Lietuva, the title track of which was performed on LRT on the occasion of Statehood Day.
In 2023, his second EP, Incontrôlable, was released, with the music video for the song Killer on This Beat directed by the artist himself.
In 2024, following a transformation of his stage identity, Tomas began a new creative chapter under the name Lion Ceccah.
In 2025, Lion Ceccah participated in Lithuania’s national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Drobė, finishing in second place. In April of that year, his debut EP Drobė was released.
