#BIRTHDAY: Mélanie Cohl from Belgium is 42 today Another day, another birthday, and today it comes from plucky little Belgium. You know the place – capital of Europe and made up of a conglomeration of various communities that sometimes speak to each other. Of course, with a country […]
#BIRTHDAY: Koit Toome from Estonia is 45 today It’s often nice when we see people having another go at winning European singing’s biggest prize. After all, plenty of people have tried on several occasions to become that song. Back in 1998, we saw today’s birthday boy Koit Toome […]
#BIRTHDAY: Sanda Ladoși from Romania is 54 today A whole host of countries have yet to finish first at our favourite TV show. Will one of them break that duck this year? Or will it be a ‘popular’ Nordic win yet again? We’d like to see a new […]
#BIRTHDAY: Tusse from Sweden is 22 today A new year, with a whole new set of opportunities to get on. We know that in May someone will win the Grand Prix of our favourite TV show. In the meantime, we get oodles of national finals to come. And […]
#BIRTHDAY: Siw Malmkvist is 87 today We end the year with a legend among singers from the more northern end of our fair continent. Still in show business, she’s been doing her thing for 60 years. I’m talking about today’s birthday girl Siw Gunnel Margareta Malmkvist. Swedish by […]
#BIRTHDAY: Barbara Berta from Switzerland is 60 today Contests come and go, and sometimes songs that you took an interest in seem to pass out of memory, even though they may have popular at the time. Back in 1997 – yes, there were contests in the 20th Century, […]
#BIRTHDAY: Kaliopi from North Macedonia is 57 today We often talk about those that take part in our favourite TV show over and over again. And also we talk about those trailblazers. Well, today we have someone who fulfils both criteria. Back in 1996, you’ll know that there […]
#BIRTHDAY: Lise Darly is 42 today Those semi-finals are a brutal affair. The potential classic songs that fall by the wayside, meaning a possible winner has to watch from the sidelines. We can all name several. For those places that can’t get out of the semi-finals, it’s understandable […]
#BIRTHDAY: Marco Mengoni from Italy is 35 today We sometimes ramble on about countries gearing up for a win. You can think of your R*ss*as or your Romanias or your Azerbaijans. But there’s one country who, arguably, could have won any time they chose. They were lined up […]
#BIRTHDAY: Stefan from Estonia is 26 today As we know, early in this century a whole heap of countries had their first wins. Some seemingly deserved, some seemingly less so. We’ll leave it to you to decide which falls into which category. buy that means a number of […]