#BIRTHDAY: Rita Guerra from Portugal is 56 today You have to admire our friends in Portugal. It took them 167 attempts to get the win in 2017. But before Salvador did his stuff in Kyiv, those Lusophones have had some cracking little songs. We can’t put our finger […]
#BIRTHDAY: Mickey Joe Harte from Ireland is 50 today Do you ever feel for those countries who were once the ones to watch, but are now struggling a little? We can all think of them, if we go back far enough. Yes, things do move on, but it’s […]
#BIRTHDAY: Esther Hart from the Netherlands is 53 today There are some times when I wish that more than one country could win our favourite TV show. Not always because there are two or more songs that are worthy. But because it’s been so long since some countries […]
#BIRTHDAY: Claudia Beni from Croatia is 37 today Back in the 1990s (remember them?), when that pesky new crop of countries wanted in to our favourite TV show, we always thought some of these new breed would win very soon. Just take 1994 for example, when two of […]
#BIRTHDAY: Mija Martina from Bosnia & Herzegovina is 39 today Our friends in Bosnia and Herzegovina have never won, and as they’re sitting contests out these days, it could be a long while before we ever see a contest in Sarajevo. For many years they were avid participants. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Mando from Greece is 57 today In a contest like Eurovision, it often happens that we get different songs with the same title. But a similar song title doesn’t always guarantee a similar finish. In 2003, we got the first Eurovision song with the title ‘Never let […]
#BIRTHDAY: Beth from Spain is 41 today Do you admire countries for sticking to their own languages? Or do you wish they can all sing in a tongue you can understand? Our friends in Spain have – almost without exception – always had their national language in their […]
#BIRTHDAY: Karmen Stavec from Slovenia is 49 today Do you wonder why some songs change the language they’re sing in between the selection and the contest? It could be because of the worry that a language might not sound right to a wider audience. It can sometimes work, […]
#BIRTHDAY: Lior Narkis from Israel is 46 today Have you always been able to spot where an act’s from, without hearing them sing, but just by looking at their stage act? It is said that every nation has a certain ‘tell’, and they could be right. Our friends […]
#BIRTHDAY: Olexandr from Ukraine is 49 today The joy of being your country’s first ever entrant in our favourite TV show. You’ve gone where no-one from your country has ever been before, and no-one can take away the fact you were the first. Your status as your country’s […]
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