#BIRTHDAY: Marija Šerifović from Serbia is 40 today It seems that English rules these days. No, not the (sub-)national entity. I mean the language. It’s rampant in the presentation of the shows. It’s all pervasive in the press centre. And it’s the main tongue of song too. So […]
#BIRTHDAY: Gerli Padar from Estonia is 45 today Estonia is one of those countries that sort of ‘gets’ Eurovision. They’ve qualified for Grand Finals more often than not of late, and were “New Europe’s” first winners. And Eurolaul/Eesti Laul has always been one of the high points of […]
#BIRTHDAY: Olivia Lewis from Malta is 46 today Think of a rock. A big happy rock. Perhaps one in the sea. A sea bounding Europe to its south. Then think of how this happy rock would celebrate if it actually won our favourite TV show. Back in 2007, […]
#BIRTHDAY: Stoyan Yankoulov from Bulgaria is 58 today There’s a word I want to use today, as today’s song reminds me of it. It might feature in this article, or I might save it for another time. Our friends in Bulgaria took a while to find their way. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Dado Topić from Croatia is 75 today We celebrate all manner of things with our birthdays. The winners, the losers, the ‘also-ran’s. They all count, and you can guarantee that someone out there will like every single Eurovision song. So just occasionally, a song might not quite […]
#BIRTHDAY: Elitsa Todorova from Bulgaria is 47 today There’s a word I want to use today, as today’s song reminds me of it. It might feature in this article, or I might save it for another time. Our friends in Bulgaria took a while to find their way. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Sarbel from Greece is 43 today Our friends in Greece were, to be fair, a country with very little success during the 20th Century. Everything changed in Copenhagen, and that win suddenly came within reach. As we know, Helena Paparizou eventually pulled it off, and a crop […]
#BIRTHDAY: Hanna Pakarinen from Finland is 43 today Would you want to be the home entrant if you were in a Eurovision Song Contest. You have no issues with the host country’s culture, but you won’t get to travel to somewhere exotic. On the plus side, the crowd […]
#BIRTHDAY: Guri Schanke from Norway is 62 today As you’ll know, Eurovision is a very fickle thing. Just ask Portugal. Or Austria. Or even the Netherlands. You can languish in the semi-finals one year, and then put in a storming performance the next. Our friends in Norway have […]
#BIRTHDAY: Magdi Rúzsa from Hungary is 38 today We miss Hungary. There, we’ve said it. Putting politics aside, they’ve put in some memorable stuff since that début in sunny Ljubljana in 1993. It’s not all been plain sailing, but without Hungary, it would be a far poorer contest. […]
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