BIRTHDAY: Arlette Zola from Switzerland is 70 today Could we have a win from ‘Old Europe’ this year? People are touting a win from the continent’s western half, maybe even from as far west as Europe goes. Of course, back in the day, Eurovision was a club purely […]
BIRTHDAY: Rykka from Switzerland is 33 today Eurovision isn’t all about winning. That’s because these days for every winner there are around 40 losers. And just because you’re a loser, you’re still privileged to have been on the Eurovision stage anyway. With all loser, erm, non-winners, someone has […]
Earlier today the Swiss Broadcaster SRG SSR announced their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2019, and it’s Luca Hänni with “She Got Me”! Luca was born in Bern and took part in the 9th season of ‘Deutschland sucht den Superstar’’. He was the first non-German to win […]
She’s one of the most influential singers in the whole world, and one of the best selling artists of all time with record sales in excess of over 250 million. So with the recent release and success of the Freddie Mercury biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, it was only a […]
BIRTHDAY: DJ BoBo from Switzerland is 51 today If you’re a fan of the history of our favourite TV show, you’ll first know that there were contests before 2000. You’ll also know who won when. Take 1956 for example, when the late great Ms Lys Assia won. She […]
Within the last couple of weeks, both Switzerland and Germany have chosen their choirs that will represent them in Gothenburg, next August. Switzerland Cake O’Phonie took victory in “Chorus” – a national selection process that saw twelve choirs take part. The choir is from Fribourg, with additional members […]
Switzerland will be the second country making their debut at the second Eurovision Choir of the Year in Gothenburg next August. RTS, the French broadcaster from Switzerland will be participating. Chorus, a National Selection will be used to select their Choir. Six choirs will take part in two […]
The Swiss National Final, Die Entscheidungsshow, that has been in use since 2011 has been cancelled. From 2019, an Internal Selection will be used to select the Swiss entry. A mixture of a public jury (100 members) and an international jury (20 members) will have the final say. […]
Welcome to a new series of articles we will be running every Wednesday across the summer – #WinnersWednesday. Every week, we will look back at three winners from Eurovision Song Contest past. 1956: Switzerland In 1956, the 1st Eurovision Song Contest took place in the Teatro Kursaal, Lugano. […]
#SWITZERLAND: Interview with Zibbz at Eurovision 2018 Eurovision Ireland caught up with Zibbz from Switzerland. But not at the press centre or their hotel. We spoke to them outside the Oceanário de Lisboa on a beautiful sunny afternoon. We hear about Eurovision in the USA and who they […]
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