BIRTHDAY: Pearl Carr from the UK is 96 today It’s good to go right back at time. For those that don’t know, there was once a contest with only ten songs. Can you imagine that now? Well, compared to that, 1959 was a bumper edition. In that year, […]
JESC BIRTHDAY: Josie Zec is 19 today Josie took part in the 2014 Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Malta, with the song Game over. Happy birthday, Josie. Author: John Stanton Source: Eurovision Ireland
BIRTHDAY: Tijana Bogićević from Serbia is 38 today Balkan, Balkan, Balkan. And so on. That’s where we are today, and things have a definite Cyrillic flavour. We’re with a country that burst onto the Eurovision scene in 2007. That’s Serbia. Yes, the place who’s capital is Belgrade had […]
BIRTHDAY: Séverine Ferrer representing Monaco is 42 today It’s always sad when a country decides to sit out Eurovision. For a year is understandable, but there are a few we’ve not seen for many years now. Are they still paying attention to our favourite TV show? Or do […]
BIRTHDAY: Fausto Leali from Italy is 75 today As you will know, every performer in our favourite TV show is a professional. They all want to do their best. Nevertheless, it must still be daunting singing in front of millions. It must be even more daunting if you’re […]
BIRTHDAY: Charlie from Hungary is 72 today What was it that drew you into Eurovision? The costumes? The glorious melodies? For us, it was the languages. Where else could you have heard someone using Hebrew, Portuguese or Finnish to get a message across? Of course, many use English […]
BIRTHDAY: Tanel Padar from Estonia is 39 today Do you remember the start of this century/millennium? The bug was behind us and we had a whole new one hundred/one thousand years to look forward to. And of course our favourite TV show carried on. One year in, and […]
BIRTHDAY: Guy Sebastian from Australia is 38 today It’s always exciting when a country débuts in our favourite TV show. Over 40 countries have participated, and there’s always rumour of more débuts to come. The newest country is that famous European country – Australia. Avid viewers for 30 […]
BIRTHDAY: Mary Spiteri from Malta is 72 today When Portugal won in 2017, they had held the record for the most entries without a win. It’s not a record a country wants, but it’s one to watch. But who holds that record now? Well, it depends on your […]
BIRTHDAY: Jean-Claude Pascal representing Luxembourg would have been 92 today Occasionally, we like to look back – right back – at early contests. It’s important no to forget our history as if it wasn’t for events on a May evening in 1956, we wouldn’t have had the lunacy […]