BIRTHDAY: Maimuna from Belarus is 39 today It’s sometimes the case that someone is credited as a performer, but they don’t actually sing. They could be really famous, and there’s a hope their name will capture a few extra votes. Today’s birthday girl Маймуна Амаду Мурашка/Maimuna Amadu Murasjko, […]
BIRTHDAY: Ines from Estonia is 38 today Back in the mists of time, just after the Eurovision Song Contest started, in the 1990s, a certain musical country from the Baltic started doing really well. So much so, that a win wasn’t far away. I jest of course. The […]
BIRTHDAY: Anne-Marie David is 67 today A winner? Well, there have been 67 of them, so they’ll crop up here from time to time. There is another winner who has a birthday today, but I’ll save her for another year. Today’s birthday girl Anne-Marie David has actually represented […]
BIRTHDAY: Dominique Walter from France is 77 today Can you see it? The dust settling, that is? Over another riotous cavalcade of quality song? We’ve had 64 of them now, so the EBU must be doing something right. A whole lot of contests mean that we have a […]
BIRTHDAY: Alekseev from Belarus is 26 today We all know that staging is key. Yes, it’s a song contest, but sometimes a song needs a costume change or a slick dance routine to squeeze a few extra points out of the jurors and televoters. In 2018, when we […]
BIRTHDAY: Lars Berghagen from Sweden is 74 today You wait ages for a Swede, and then two come along at once. To be fair, they have been participating since 1789, so we have rich pickings on the birthday front. Today’s birthday Lars Nils Berghagen, known to his friends […]
BIRTHDAY: Nathalie Pâque from France is 42 today You may think that the winners are the most important things to come out of the contest. They are one of them, obviously, but sometimes you have to look deeper to pick out other important aspects. Today’s birthday girl brought […]
BIRTHDAY: Kikki Danielsson from Sweden is 67 today I know we’re in the midst of another Eurovision Song Contest, but the birthdays just keep on coming, And today we have one for a home entrant! I always say that second is best for the home entrant to finish. […]
BIRTHDAY: Kojo from Finland is 66 today Winners one day, tail-enders the next. It’s all good fun. We love them all, as they’ve done something most of us will never do. Today’s birthday boy Timo Kojo was there all the way back in 1982. Yes, there were contest […]
BIRTHDAY: Marie Myriam from France is 62 today A winner? Well, someone has to. And this year it will be one of 41. Well, we can probably discount three quarters of the field before they’ve sung a note in competition. Back in 1977, the field was a mere […]
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