#BIRTHDAY: 10 Nov – Ruth Lorenzo from Spain is 44 There must be some golden rules when going on to a Eurovision stage. For example, always make sure you know where the camera is. Or that you’re wearing clean underwear. One rule I think performers should stick to […]
#BIRTHDAY: 26 Oct – Blas Cantó from Spain is 35 If you recall, it seemed like there were hundreds of performers who didn’t get the 2020 gig but were then kept on for Rotterdam 2021. Actually, the number was far less than that but it’s a nice thought […]
#BIRTHDAY: 1 Oct – Nina from Spain is 60 Are you a Spanish fan? Or just a fan of Spanish music? You must have been gutted when RTVE announced they were sitting things out in Vienna. Over the years, many Spanish songs have had a chance of winning, […]
#BIRTHDAY: 28 Sept – Pastora Soler from Spain is 48 Do you feel for those countries that haven’t won for a long time? Do you will them to win regardless of the song they enter? Or have they just been unlucky at times? Our friends in Spain haven’t […]
#BIRTHDAY: 28 July – Chanel from Spain is 35 Do you love hype? That thing where a tune ends up being secondary to the personality that’s singing it? Or that thing when the fannage have already decided a certain song has won four weeks before that Grand Final? […]
#BIRTHDAY: 22 July – Braulio from Spain is 80 It’s always a curious mix of countries in our favourite TV show. We have the 21st Century newbies, to those that have racked up 50 appearances or more. So it follows that, occasionally, we pick songs from times before […]
#BIRTHDAY: 5 July – Lucía Pérez from Spain is 41 How are you on the free language rule? Do you think it’s fine, or should countries sing in their own languages? Some countries singing in their own languages have done well lately, but it’s not always been the […]
#BIRTHDAY: 16 Apr – Mikel Herzog from Spain is 66 Isn’t it often the way that you can tell where someone’s from, just by their name? If it ends in ‘dottir’, it’s usually Icelandic. Or if it ends in ‘ić’, it’s usually from a lot further south-east. So […]
#BIRTHDAY: 29 Mar – Barei from Spain is 44 They say there’s nothing new in the world of Eurovision. The culturally similar countries may prefer their own songs. Certain personalities will always turn up. And there will always debate on whether the right song won. In 2016, our […]
#BIRTHDAY: 7 Mar – Manel Navarro from Spain is 30 For those of you who remember the older contests, but the more recent ones seem to meld into one, we’ve picked a song from 2017 today. It was in the beautiful Ukrainian capital of Київ/Kyiv. Luckily we’ve got […]