20 Haziran 2008 – 14:44
Finnish broadcaster YLE has published the rules and dates of their selection process for 2009 which will decide who will represent Finland in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. As in previous years, the competition will invite selected artists and composers in co-operation with their record companies. The biggest change from last year is that […]
20 Haziran 2008 – 14:40
Maria Haukaas Storeng’s Eurovision 2008 entry, Hold on, Be strong will be soon released in Sweden following the song’s success in the country’s charts.
Hold on be strong is currently at #17 in the Swedish singles’ chart, with Sebastien Tellier being the only Eurovision entry ahead of her at #15. It has now been confirmed to […]
19 Haziran 2008 – 14:38
The Portuguese representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 1993, Anabela, carries on her successful career in musicals by joining the cast of the Portuguese version of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ in the role of Mary Magdalene.
After playing the part of Maria in The Sound of Music for almost two years, Anabela started recently in the […]
19 Haziran 2008 – 14:35
Helena Paparizou and Sakis Rouvas were voted as Artist of the year and Best male artist respectively by the Greek fans in the 2008 Mad Video Music Awards. Ukrainian Eurovision 2008 runner up, Ani Lorak was also present to present one of the awards and ..talk about Sakis.
With 120.000 votes, Helena Paparizou, winner of […]
18 Haziran 2008 – 14:16
A new committee has been formed by the Turkish Parliament to propose ways for the protection and development of the Turkish language. One of the issues the committee will be looking at is the language in which the country’s representatives will be singing in the Eurovision Song Contest.
The Turkish Parliament is currently working on […]
17 Haziran 2008 – 14:14
On Radio International this week, Wednesday June 18th, they take a look at Spain’s participation at the Eurovision Song Contest with their Eurovision specialist Marcus Keppel-Palmer from the UK. Also, esctoday.com includes on this article a recap of the Radio International interview with EBU Executive Supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest, Svante Stockselius aired […]
17 Haziran 2008 – 14:01
Ani Lorak, the Ukrainian star and runner-up of the 2008 Eurovisionb Song Contest is in Athens for the annual Mad Video Music Awards.
Ani Lorak will be one of the surprise guests in this year’s Mad Video Music Awards which will take place tonight at 20.00 CET in Athens. Ani will present one of the […]
16 Haziran 2008 – 13:57
Marcin Mroczek and Edyta Herbus have been selected by public Polish broadcaster TVP to represent Poland at the 2008 Eurovision Dance Contest, to be held in Glasgow on September 6th.
Both of them are well-known faces to Polish people. Marcin has worked as an actor, gaining fame with productions such as M jak milosc and […]
16 Haziran 2008 – 13:54
Winners of national selection Dancing stars for Europe, Dorian Steidl and Nicole Kuntner, will represent Austria at the forthcoming Eurovision Dance Contest, this coming September 6th in Glasgow.
With a mix of foxtrot, jive and quickstep and three changes of costumes, dancers Dorian Steidl and Nicole Kunter won the Austrian national final for Eurovision Dance Contest […]
16 Haziran 2008 – 13:52
Eurovision Dance Contest trophy holders Finland have decided their competing couple for this year’s EDC to be held in Glasgow (United Kingdom). Their names are Maria Lund and Mikko Ahti.
After Finland’s win last year with Katja Koukkula and Jussi Väänänen, the Nordic country will try to repeat victory on September 6th in Glasgow with […]
14 Haziran 2008 – 23:09
Vânia was one of the special guests at the celebrations of the Day of Portugal. During the afternoon, RTP put up a show and Vania had the opportunity to sing twice and be interviewed.
The 10th of June is the Day of Portugal and every year the celebrations take place at different city in the country chosen […]
14 Haziran 2008 – 13:51
Andorran broadcaster RTVA has not taken a decision on the country’s participation at Eurovision 2009 yet, after this year’s disappointing results.
Creu Rosell, Head of Delegation of Andorra, told partner site eurovision-spain.com that the public broadcaster RTVA has not decided whether the Principality will participate or not at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, to be […]
12 Haziran 2008 – 23:09
Ulrika Jonsson, co-host with Terry Wogan of the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 in Birmingham, United Kingdom has given birth to her fourth child – a baby boy.
The Swedish born TV presenter and her third husband Brian Monet named their son Malcolm.
“I’m delighted and hope my family is now complete.”
Malcolm came into the world last Saturday night, […]
12 Haziran 2008 – 23:08
Ronnie Lans becomes new project manager for Melodifestivalen after Christel-Tholse Willers.
Ronnie Lans has worked with Swedish Idol and various other huge live television galas and tv-shows for many years.
There are rumours about changes for Melodifestivalen 2009. One possibility is that the final will be moved from the Globen in Stockholm to Malmö.
With the selection of […]
12 Haziran 2008 – 23:02
The BBC are reporting that Ireland’s EU treaty ‘No’ campaigners have recruited the country’s most famous turkey to help secure crucial votes in today’s Lisbon Treaty referendum.
Dustin the Turkey who represented Ireland at the 53rd Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade, crashed out of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest at the semi-final stage. Now […]
12 Haziran 2008 – 23:02
Saint Petersburg Parliament has opposed holding the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in the city.
Deputies have addressed the Governor Valentina Matvienko with the request to reject the offer about St. Petersburg hosting the popular international contest next year. The authors of the request apprehend that holding the Eurovision festival will be conducive […]
12 Haziran 2008 – 22:02
64-year-old Swedish singer-songwriter Lasse Holm and 1987 Swedish Eurovision Song Contest representative Lotta Engberg are to record a song together to draw attention to global warming.
Lasse has not recorded since 1986, when he sang for Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest in Bergen with Monica Törnell, finishing fifth with the song E’ de’ det […]
11 Haziran 2008 – 16:55
The internationally acclaimed Spanish artist Julio Iglesias who is among the world’s most sought after singers gave a concert to an audience of 7000 fans at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest venue, the Beogradska Arena on Monday the 9th of June. Julio Iglesias represented Spain at the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest in Amsterdam with […]
11 Haziran 2008 – 16:54
Melodifestivalklubben OGAE Sweden will be organising their annual club meeting and convention on October 4th at The Tivoli in Helsingborg, in the south of Sweden just by the seaside and everyone is invited to a day full of fun Eurovision related events!
The event will kick off in the afternoon with the club’s annual meeting […]
11 Haziran 2008 – 16:53
It is this time of the year again for preparations to begin for Sopot Festival, the Polish popular music event where artists from all over Europe and the USA compete annually for the two prizes awarded by a jury and the public. This year again sees popular Eurostars among the contestants, such as the […]
