BIRTHDAY: Sopho Khalvashi from Georgia is 33 today The first decade of this century saw a big expansion of the amount of countries taking part in our favourite TV show. Fifteen countries débuted. That’s more countries than took part in the first contests. One such début came from […]
BIRTHDAY: Pasha Parfeny from Moldova is 33 today Mr Eurovision. Every country has one. Or several. Or someone who thinks they are deserving of this title. Not to be confused with Dr Eurovision, obviously. There’s only room for one of those. Moldova has a claimant to that title […]
BIRTHDAY: Eyþór Ingi from Iceland is 30 today Performers of all ages have been seen on a Eurovision stage. It cam sometimes be a fun game to guess whether a performer looks their age or not. Many performers try to look younger than they are. Some succeed. Some […]
BIRTHDAY: Maimuna from Belarus is 39 today It’s sometimes the case that someone is credited as a performer, but they don’t actually sing. They could be really famous, and there’s a hope their name will capture a few extra votes. Today’s birthday girl Маймуна Амаду Мурашка/Maimuna Amadu Murasjko, […]
BIRTHDAY: Ines from Estonia is 38 today Back in the mists of time, just after the Eurovision Song Contest started, in the 1990s, a certain musical country from the Baltic started doing really well. So much so, that a win wasn’t far away. I jest of course. The […]
BIRTHDAY: Anne-Marie David is 67 today A winner? Well, there have been 67 of them, so they’ll crop up here from time to time. There is another winner who has a birthday today, but I’ll save her for another year. Today’s birthday girl Anne-Marie David has actually represented […]
BIRTHDAY: Dominique Walter from France is 77 today Can you see it? The dust settling, that is? Over another riotous cavalcade of quality song? We’ve had 64 of them now, so the EBU must be doing something right. A whole lot of contests mean that we have a […]
ESC2019: Statement on Grand Final jury result The EBU has acknowledged a mistake in the jury results from the Grand Final of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. After the Belarusian jury was dismissed for the Grand Final, an aggregation of other jury scores were used to determine that […]
BIRTHDAY: Alekseev from Belarus is 26 today We all know that staging is key. Yes, it’s a song contest, but sometimes a song needs a costume change or a slick dance routine to squeeze a few extra points out of the jurors and televoters. In 2018, when we […]
STAGGY: Days thirteen and fourteen at Eurovision 2019 Chocolate! Squeak! Lots of time to relax! Squeak! Slavko! Squeak! Star treatment at the Eurovision Village! Squeak! Author: Eurovision Ireland Source: Eurovision Ireland