BIRTHDAY: Micky from Spain is 76 today Are you enjoying your Sunday? Does it lift your spirits? Maybe not if you’re working, but if you have high spirits, you may want to sing. But can you sing? That cunningly brings me onto today’s birthday. In a contest where […]
BIRTHDAY: Olivia Lewis from Malta is 41 today Think of a rock. A big happy rock. Perhaps one in the sea. A sea bounding Europe to its south. Then think of how this happy rock would celebrate if it actually won our favourite TV show. Back in 2007, […]
BIRTHDAY: Özkan Uğur from Turkey is 66 today We don’t always celebrate soloists in this column. There are singers who perform in duets, trios and bigger. But no bigger than six, obviously. Today we have a very active member of a trio who took part twice. It’s today’s […]
BIRTHDAY: Loreen from Sweden is 36 today Hang onto your hats, your gloves, your scarves. It’s Sweden. Yes, again. You might be getting tired of the country of the blue-and-gold flag, but with a lot of singers there are a lot of birthdays. Every year, another website has […]
BIRTHDAY: Ingeborg from Belgium is 53 today Do you remember thirty years ago? The world was a very different place. We were in sunny Switzerland for our favourite TV show. There were no bloodbath-style semi-finals. And the United Kingdom did better than they do today. As it was […]
BIRTHDAY: Ruslan Alekhno from Belarus is 38 today We’re going east today. Not that far east, but east enough to be in a different time zone. Lovely Belarus has never won the big contest, but they’re getting there slowly. In all Belarus’s years, they’ve only performed in Belarusian […]
BIRTHDAY: Nana Mouskouri representing Luxembourg is 85 today False flagger alert! If you’re offended by people from one country singing for another, you may wish to look away. But there is a very good reason today. Today’s false flagger’s own country didn’t début for another 11 years. That […]
BIRTHDAY: Cláudia Pascoal from Portugal is 25 today That thing where you represent your country, in your country. There’s no pressure at all, oh dear me no. Seriously, it must be an honour, knowing that you have huge home support in that crowd. In 2018 – if you […]
BIRTHDAY: Jeronimus Milius from Lithuania is 35 today Sometimes a song comes along and I don’t know what to say about it. It’s not a winner. It’s not a notorious last place. And many of you might have even forgotten it was ever entered. In other news, after […]
BIRTHDAY: Dickie Rock from Ireland is 83 today Now I know what you’re thinking. Two Irish birthdays in a row? You might think there’s a plot afoot. There isn’t. As you know, the birthdays I pick are all random. But as we have an Irish birthday, we’ve gone […]
BIRTHDAY: Nicky Byrne from Ireland is 41 today There’s a lot to be said for the selection process to choose a song for our favourite TV show. What’s the right formula? Do you go for an internal selection? Or do you let Joe/Josef/Jozef/Giuseppe public decide? Obviously, this year, […]
BIRTHDAY: Luca Hänni from Switzerland is 25 today In this column, we don’t normally pick birthdays from the current year. But until May we had none on 8 October – and then two come along at once! Who’s the other one? Wait until 2020. We say that anyone […]
BIRTHDAY: Charlotte Perrelli from Sweden is 45 today One of the golden rules of our favourite TV show is this: If you win, leave it at that. You’ve reached the pinnacle, so don’t try again. It’ll end in tears. Unless you’re Seán Sherrard. Cast your mind back to […]
BIRTHDAY: Joe Woolford from the UK is 25 today You have to admire the United Kingdom of stuff. They have this glittering past of top three places that came to a juddering halt in 2002. They may have been overtaken by a number of events. Yet they still […]
BIRTHDAY: Mikolas Josef from the Czech Republic is 24 today Here’s a thing that doesn’t come along very often. Some countries seem awash with birthdays. Maybe because they’ve been participating since the early days. But others need to be savoured as they don’t happen very often. Today’s birthday […]
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