#BIRTHDAY: 22 Oct – Donny Montell from Lithuania is 39 A good song needs a killer lyric. That’s obvious. But it also needs those specific lines that put it above the rest. What is your favourite line from a song? The first song sung by today’s birthday boy […]
#BIRTHDAY: 14 Oct – Iveta Mukuchyan from Armenia is 40 Today we go to one of those countries who have been able to get things right with the junior version of our favourite TV show. Seven Top 2 places no less. But they’ve had a little less success […]
#BIRTHDAY: 27 August – Jamala from Ukraine is 43 Do you like it when a surprise song wins our favourite TV show? You know the sort – you know it’s going to be there or thereabouts. But other songs might be more worthy of first place. Then along […]
#BIRTHDAY: 19 August – Laura Tesoro from Belgium is 30 Do you enjoy good national final? No, not that Melodifestivalen thing – we’re talking about good national finals. We jest of course. Every national final will have good songs and, erm, other songs. Our friends in Belgium flit […]
#BIRTHDAY: 8 August – Sanja Vučić from Serbia is 33 Some of those singers just can’t get enough of our favourite TV show. They keep coming back, just to see if they can win that crystal microphone. But it sometimes happens that they come back again in a slightly […]
#BIRTHDAY: 5 August – Dalal from Bosnia-Herzegovina is 45 Our friends in Bosnia & Herzegovina have fallen out of love with our favourite TV show of late. We miss them with their quirky acts and Slavic tendencies. They last had a go at winning in 2016 and didn’t […]
#BIRTHDAY: 31 July – Ira Losco from Malta is 45 That thing where you enjoy something so much, you want to do it again. We’ve all been there. But how many times has the second time not quite matched up to the first? This has happened often to […]
#BIRTHDAY: 1 July – Jüri Pootsmann from Estonia is 32 We all have our favourite countries. It could be because we have family there, or because they enter songs we like into our favourite TV show. Or they could. Or they could generally get good results from the […]
#BIRTHDAY: 22 June – Nika Kocharov from Georgia is 46 There are certain genres that often raise an eyebrow when they find their way into Eurovision. Schlager does well, and electronic dance music. And of course a quality banger. But then there are others… Today’s birthday boy ნიკოლოზ […]
It’s June and it’s Pride month. Here at Eurovision Ireland, we are going to highlight some of the LGBTQ+ artists to have participated in the Eurovision Song Contest. For June 7th, we are continuing with Rykka. They represented Switzerland with “The Last of Our Kind”, taking 18th place […]