#BIRTHDAY: Frans from Sweden is 25 today Do you ever feel old when you watch certain performers do what they do best? Those singers who were teenagers when they took part in our favourite TV show years ago and are still only in their twenties. Cast your mind […]
#BIRTHDAY: Hovi Star from Israel is 37 today It’s always worth remembering that our favourite TV show is a contest for writers, not just performers. So maybe it’s time it made more of the songwriters again. Anyone recall the 1985 postcards? I’m bigging up writers as today’s song […]
#BIRTHDAY: Greta Salóme from Iceland is 37 today Many acts try and try again to win the grand prize in our favourite TV show. Some go it alone from their first appearance. Others like to start modestly, and build their way up. In 2012, old hand Jónsi represented […]
#BIRTHDAY: Dami Im from Australia is 35 today It’s a vexed question these days. no, not how much this website is better than all those others. It’s about who should be able to compete in our favourite TV show. The natural answer is those countries that fall within […]
#BIRTHDAY: Iveta Mukuchyan from Armenia is 37 today 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 at the […]
#BIRTHDAY: Joe Woolford from the UK is 29 today You have to admire the United Kingdom of stuff. They have this glittering past of top three places that came to a juddering halt in 2002. With one obvious exception. They may have been overtaken by a number of […]
#BIRTHDAY: Sanja Vučić from Serbia is 30 today 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 different […]
#BIRTHDAY: Dalal from Bosnia & Herzegovina is 42 today 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: Freddie from Hungary is 33 today Are you a fan of national finals? Are you religiously watching them through the whole ‘season’, from Ukraine to Portugal? Do you pick certain countries to watch, even though they may have many many shows? Or do you prefer it to […]
#BIRTHDAY: Rykka is 37 today Do you like it when we see people from outside Europe (or, since 2015, Australia), taking part in our favourite TV show? Do you want to see the best singers, wherever they’re from? Or should they just be European? Of course, non-Europeans have […]