#BIRTHDAY: Artsvik from Armenia is 38 today Which country would you like to see win for the first time? For many years, it was probably Portugal, but now the field could be wide open. For somewhere a bit ‘exotic’, you may want our friends in Armenia to win. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Slavko Kalezić from Montenegro is 37 today Eurovision is full of characters. Some of them we don’t mind seeing after the curtain goes down. Some of them are just plain annoying. I’ll leave it to you to decide which category today’s birthday boy falls into. He had high […]
#BIRTHDAY: Alma from France is 34 today Our friends in France have experienced the highs and lows of Eurovision lately. After nearly winning in 2021, they had less good fortune in 2022. Eurovision can be a very fickle beast at times. In 2017, France sent today’s birthday girl […]
#BIRTHDAY: Joci Pápai from Hungary is 41 today Eurovision these days is all about English, isn’t it? No other language gets a look in, does it? English is always the way forward. It wasn’t necessarily the case in 2017, and non-English songs have now won the last two […]
#BIRTHDAY: Laura Põldvere from Estonia is 34 today As I’ve mentioned before, many songs that we expect to do well, fall at the semi-final stage. We ask ourselves why. Well at least I do. Even more so when our friends in Estonia perform this non-qualifying trick. Admittedly, sometimes […]
#BIRTHDAY: Ilinca from Romania is 24 today It would be a dull old Eurovision if all the songs sounded the same. They obviously don’t, otherwise they’d all finish up with the same number of points. But whilst they all want to stand out, some stand out because they […]
#BIRTHDAY: Omar Naber from Slovenia is 41 today Many people can claim to have a unique record in our favourite TV show. It could be their country’s only winner. Or the only person to win twice as a performer. More often – probably – are people who share […]
#BIRTHDAY: Tamara Gachechiladze from Georgia is 39 today Do you ever wonder what becomes of Eurovision stars after they’ve had their three minutes of fame? I’ll wager some of them go back to working in [insert coffee shop chain here]. Maybe some of them end up catching norovirus […]
#BIRTHDAY: Manel Navarro from Spain is 26 today For those of you who remember the older contests, but the more recent ones seem to meld into one, I’ve picked a song from 2017 today. It was in the beautiful Ukrainian capital of Київ/Kyiv. Luckily I’ve got 42 to […]
#BIRTHDAY: Kasia Moś from Poland is 35 today Are you a native English speaker? If not, than if writing a song wasn’t bad enough, writing a song in another language must be very difficult. So when a lyric comes along that might appear simple, you may want to think […]