#BIRTHDAY: Roxen from Romania is 22 today After the fun and games of the last two years, there will always be a clutch of performers who were selected for 2020, but only got their chance 12 months later. What will always be a talking point is which of […]
#BIRTHDAY: Vesa-Matti Loiri from Finland is 77 today For every Eurovision song there will be a fan of it. You name it, they will pick out the good points of every song. But it’s just possible that some aren’t really songs, more like cries for help. So it’s […]
#BIRTHDAY: Hovig from Cyprus is 33 today Did you ever wonder what makes a good selection process for your country’s act? Should it be a series of shows lasting months where one song gets eliminated each week? One show that’s all done and dusted in an hour? Or […]
#BIRTHDAY: Sanda Ladoși from Romania is 52 today A whole host of countries have yet to finish first at our favourite TV show. Will one of them break that duck this year? Or will it be a ‘popular’ Nordic win yet again? I’d like to see a new country’s […]
#BIRTHDAY: Tusse from Sweden is 20 today A new year, with a whole new set of opportunities to get on. We know that in May someone – possibly Italy – will win the Grand Prix of our favourite TV show. In the meantime, we get oodles of national […]
#BIRTHDAY: John Allison from the UK is 82 today Another year ends, and we have a birthday to delight you. As you’ll know, the contest started deep in the 20th Century, so we’re going back to those early days. The United Kingdom of stuff had a proud reputation […]
#ALBANIA: And the winner is… Albania’s Festivali i Këngës 60 has just drawn to a conclusion, and we now have another song for the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest in Turin. The lucky song is Sekret by Ronela Hajati. She beat 16 other competitors. Albania’s songs have a habit […]
#BIRTHDAY: Milly Scott from the Netherlands is 88 today Trailblazer. It’s a word bandied around far too often, maybe not least by these birthday articles. But today we really do have a trailblazer. Someone who broke new ground in our favourite TV show. And someone we really should […]
Some songs are just so good they get roundly ignored by the televoters and juries of Europe (and beyond). Other times, they get what they deserve and get the highest score ever. Ever. This song might have you in tears. Tears of joy, naturally. It’s such a great […]
#BIRTHDAY: Lise Darly is 40 today Those semi-finals are a brutal affair. The potential classic songs that fall by the wayside, meaning a possible winner has to watch from the sidelines. We can all name several. For those places that can’t get out of the semi-finals, it’s understandable […]