#BIRTHDAY: Claudia Faniello from Malta is 33 today If at first you don’t succeed, try again. It’s an old adage that could relate to many different situations. Of course, it also applies to our favourite TV show too. In 2017, today’s birthday girl Claudia Faniello finally got to […]
#BIRTHDAY: Monique Melsen from Luxembourg is 70 today We often mention those false-flaggers that come and go each year. You wonder why some countries use them, but then there are others that are mire understandable. Our friends in Luxembourg took part 37 times before they hung up their […]
#BIRTHDAY: Nina Morato from France is 55 today It must be daunting when you’re drawn to perform last in the Eurovision Song Contest. It might have been less so when they were smaller, but in these years of 25+ songs per contest, those butterflies must start to appear […]
#BIRTHDAY: Duilio from Switzerland is 48 today Did you ever envy Switzerland? Not only are they good at chocolate and cheese, but during those no-free language rule days, they had a choice of four of them. And they used them too. You might think it was all French […]
#BIRTHDAY: Bobbie Singer from Austria is 40 today If you were a singer on the Eurovision stage, would you keep your birth name, or would you adopt a stage name? A stage name could better show off your talent, and maybe be something more useful for foreigners. Today’s […]
#PORTUGAL: Five songs survive Festival da Canção 2021 After the first semi-final of Portugal’s Festival da Canção 2021, five songs have fallen away, and five have made it to the Grand Final on ‘Super’ Saturday 6 March. What are the five? The Black Mamba – Love is on […]
#ESTONIA: Six more songs selected for Eesti Laul 2021 The people of Estonia have decided, and picked six more songs to go forward to the Grand Final of Eesti Laul 2021. But what are they? Uku Suviste – The lucky one Suured tüdrukud – Heaven’s not that far […]
ESTONIA: Live blog of Eesti Laul SF2 from 18.30CET Estonian broadcaster ERR continues its search for a song for Rotterdam with the second semi-final of Eesti Laul. As with Thursday, twelve songs are vying for six places in the Final of Eesti Laul on Saturday 6 March. A […]
The BBC has revealed that James Newman will be singing for the United Kingdom at the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. James was invited again to fly the flag for the UK. Last year he was supposed to represent the nation with his song My last breath, a song […]
#BIRTHDAY: SuRie from the UK is 32 today Sometimes performers aren’t always remembered for their three minutes of singing on that hallowed stage. Just occasionally, there’s an event outside their control that overshadows what they’re there to do. We won’t dwell on the incident that befell today’s birthday […]