#BIRTHDAY: Jari Sillanpää from Finland is 57 today It’s opening song time again. And not just any old opening song. Oh no. This was has a special place in Eurovision history. It was the first song in the first semi-final in the host country. Yes, there have been […]
#BIRTHDAY: Ruslana from Ukraine is 49 today With certain countries in the news for certain reasons, it’s probably important to remember their countrymen and women have birthdays too. And a winner definitely needs celebrating. So a winner from a country in the news, with a birthday, needs a […]
#BIRTHDAY: Deen from Bosnia & Herzegovina is 40 today As we know, Eurovision throws up performances as well as songs. Do they detract, or does a song need some form of gimmick to do well? St Salvador of Sobral didn’t think so, but they do sometimes help. If […]
#BIRTHDAY: Julia Savicheva from Russia is 35 today One thing that can sometimes help your song along is a great bit of choreography. Some songs are crying out for it, where obviously others don’t. So a Eurovision stage can be that pinnacle if your a dancer. Today’s song […]
#BIRTHDAY: Sanda Ladoși from Romania is 52 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? I’d like to see a new country’s […]
#BIRTHDAY: Sertab from Turkey is 57 today Yesterday we had one of an esteemed of individuals who got no points. Today, we have the opposite. That’s a contest winner to you and me. It came as a shock to a lot of us when our friends in Turkey […]
#BIRTHDAY: Ludwig Galea from Malta is 44 today Are you a fan of the semi-final tomfoolery? Do you think our favourite TV show should be one evening a year? Or is more better? Do you like those songs that make it out of the semi-finals more than the […]
#BIRTHDAY: Chris Doran from Ireland is 42 today One of these days, Ireland will win again. There, it’s out there. It might not be for a few years, but it’ll happen. That is, as long as they keep taking part. For now, at least, that seems highly likely. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Jónsi from Iceland is 44 today We move north after our little sojourn into the Balkan world. And to someone who has been on that stage. Once alone, and once with a pal. You see it’s true that some just can’t get enough of the heady Eurovision […]
#BIRTHDAY: Max Mutzke from Germany is 40 today Since the advent of the in-situ semi-finals in 2004, the Big Four/Five have always had there place in the Grand Final assured. Some disagree with this, but it can add that extra je ne sais quoi to proceedings. In that […]
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