Over the course of April and May, on the lead up to the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, we will be celebrating the countries that are participating this year in Rotterdam. Today, we celebrate France. France debuted at the Contest in 1956, in Lugano, Switzerland. Mathé Altéry took part […]
#BIRTHDAY: Raphael from Spain is 78 today It must be galling when your country wins, and you went and performed for them the year before that win. Obviously, there have been occasions where a country has won (at least) two years running. It must have been even worse […]
Welcome to our fourth country-specific #AtoZ series. During the National Final season, we started to look at a different country alphabetically each week. This week, on the lead up to the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, we are looking at Sweden and today we are looking at J-M… John […]
#BIRTHDAY: Anjeza Shahini from Albania is 34 today Cast your mind back, if you can, to when your country first took part in the Eurovision Song Contest. A time for optimism and hope. Who knows, that win or good placing was just a few voters away. Naturally, there […]
Over the course of April and May, on the lead up to the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, we will be celebrating the countries that are participating this year in Rotterdam. Today, we celebrate Denmark. Denmark debuted at the Contest in 1957, in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. Birthe Wilke & Gustav […]
Welcome to our fourth country-specific #AtoZ series. During the National Final season, we started to look at a different country alphabetically each week. This week, on the lead up to the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, we are looking at Sweden and today we are looking at F-I… Fångad […]
Over the course of April and May, on the lead up to the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, we will be celebrating the countries that are participating this year in Rotterdam. Today, we celebrate Switzerland. Switzerland debuted at the Contest in 1956, in Lugano, Switzerland. Lys Assia finished in […]
Unity, the Dutch participants from the 2020 Junior Eurovision Song Contest are back. They have released a Dutch language cover of Teach-In’s Dutch winning entry from the 1975 Eurovision Song Contest, “Ding-A-Dong”. You can listen to the cover version below: Teach-In took victory at the Contest in 1975, […]
#BIRTHDAY: Massimo Ranieri from Italy is 70 today Our favourite TV has always attracted bigger names, who quite happily mix with those rising stars looking for their big break. Take the Sanremo Festival for example. There are competitions for established and new stars. Talking of Italy, today’s birthday […]
Over the course of April and May, on the lead up to the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, we will be celebrating the countries that are participating this year in Rotterdam. Today, we celebrate Latvia. Latvia debuted at the Contest in 2000, in Stockholm, Sweden. Brainstorm finished in third […]