#BIRTHDAY: Elena Risteska from North Macedonia is 39 today Are you a fan of ballads, or do you prefer something faster? It’s true that there’s no consensus in Europe, as we get songs of all varieties wining our favourite TV show. Today we go down a more mid-tempo […]
#BIRTHDAY: Mr Lordi from Finland is 51 today There have been winners and there have been winners. From those nice safe ballads, some clucks, women dancing on boxes, people ripping clothes off. And so on. And then there was what happened in 2006. Yes, there were contests as […]
#BIRTHDAY: Tina Karol from Ukraine is 40 today Who doesn’t love a good thigh-slapper of a song. It’s more than just plain old Schlager. A good old banger that will fill a dance floor, even if the lyric isn’t the most profound in the world. A thigh-slapper with […]
#BIRTHDAY: Hari Varešanović from Bosnia & Herzegovina is 64 today There sometimes comes a song that is so classy, you know it’s not going to win the first prize at our favourite TV show. Or, it could be so predictable that it shouldn’t win first prize at our […]
#BIRTHDAY: Daz Sampson from the UK is 50 today The ‘novelty’ song. Every contest has them. Just look at Carola. I joke. Carola has never been a novelty. But these songs sometimes do far better than expected. And some we can just point and laugh at. I leave […]
#BIRTHDAY: Carola from Sweden is 58 today We know you like our birthday feature. Well this is one you won’t want to miss. Sweden is – in some eyes – the pinnacle of Eurovision-ness. So when a Swedish birthday comes along, we’re going to celebrate it. Today’s birthday […]
#BIRTHDAY: Luiz Ejlli from Albania is 39 today It’s a thing these days that many songs are in English, or at least partly in English. Some fans are old enough to remember when there was no free language rule. So it’s nice when a country uses its own […]
#BIRTHDAY: André from Armenia is 45 today It’s début time again, and one that saw an expansion into the Caucasus – that area some claim is Europe and some claim is Asia. We’re not going to discuss that geographical question here. Today’s birthday boy Անդրեյ Սերգեյի Հովնանյան/André Sergey […]
#BIRTHDAY: Anžej Dežan from Slovenia is 37 today What’s the right language for a Eurovision song? It’s a vexed question. Be true to your own language, and you get admired for sticking to your guns. Use a more widely spoken one, and more people immediately get your message. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Fabrizio Faniello from Malta is 43 today Think of a small country. Now think of a smaller one. Is it Malta? It’s not always lumped with the European microstates, but it isn’t exactly large. And if it won the big prize at the Eurovision? It would easily […]
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