#BIRTHDAY: 19 June – Glennis Grace from the Netherlands is 48 Anyone can win the Eurovision Song Contest. There, I’ve said it. We cite the examples of Portugal and Finland. But there are others. Not too far back we had a win by our friends in the Netherlands. […]
#BIRTHDAY: 17 June – RiskyKidd from Greece is 31 Have you noticed an increase in collaborations? No? Well, maybe not necessarily in Eurovision circles, but definitely in the wider world of music. But what happens in music eventually permeates to Eurovision. And in 2014 Greece entered a collaboration […]
#BIRTHDAY: 16 June – Johanna Hytti from Finland is 50 Do you love a good sing-song? Or a song where there’s an action you can’t help performing. A nod of the head for a Ukrainian song for example? Or the reflex clap? In 2010. our friends in Finland […]
#BIRTHDAY: 15 June – Jérémie Makiese from Belgium is 26 Our friends in Belgium have been taking part in our favourite TV show since the start – that’s 1956, if you were thinking the first contest was in 2012. They do the right thing and alternate between VRT […]
#BIRTHDAY: 14 June – Rambo Amadeus from Montenegro is 63 Don’t you just love those ‘novelty’ entries? There have been plenty, to varying degrees of success. One or two have even won. I’ll let you work out which. Of course, these novelties sometimes have a message, even if […]
#BIRTHDAY: 13 June – Kasia Kowalska from Poland is 53 Which country would you like to see win for the first time? For us, for years, it was Portugal. Then we had 2017… These days it would have to be somewhere like Malta. Or Georgia. Or maybe Poland. […]
#BIRTHDAY: 12 June – Oscar Loya is 47 The Big Four/Five – do they warrant a position in the Grand Final? Or should they have to qualify like everyone else? It’s a question that goes back over 14 years. For now, at least, they are already in the […]
#BIRTHDAY: 11 June – Pernilla Karlsson from Finland is 36 It was always interesting when our friends at the EBU relaxed the rule about singing in your own language. Obviously, where most songs are sung in a non-native language, it’s usually English. But since 1999, countries do often […]
#BIRTHDAY: 9 June – Lisa del Bo from Belgium is 65 Do you ever hear a song and think that it sounds a lot like another song? It’s not quite plagiarism, but there are similarities that you can’t ignore. The plagiarism allegation is levelled at songs every year, […]
#BIRTHDAY: 8 June – Rafał from Poland is 45 What did you make of the 2021 contest in Rotterdam. Did we get the result at the top of the leaderboard we deserve? Were there any injustices further down the list? Should a losing semi-finalists have really made it? We […]
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