#BIRTHDAY: TuralTuranX from Azerbaijan are 25 today Eurovision has thrown up a number of pairs of twins in its time. It’s good to see how family dynamics play out. Are they fully equal, or do they have their own different talents. In 2023, today’s birthday boys Tural and […]
#BIRTHDAY: Mimicat from Portugal is 41 today We all have our favourite countries, for many different reasons. You might be from that country. You might love that country’s culture. Or you could just admire them for trying year after year. As we know, Portugal have had one solitary […]
#BIRTHDAY: Chris Harms from Germany is 45 today Do you start to follow new music as a result of seeing an act perform at our favourite TV show? Do you use it to expand your musical horizons or is there an act you’ve followed forever, and are ecstatic […]
#BIRTHDAY: Diljá from Iceland is 23 today Would you like to see Iceland win our favourite TV show? After all, they’re the only Nordic country yet to do so, even though they’ve had a couple of near misses. And would you be prepared to sell a kidney to […]
#BIRTHDAY: Iru from Georgia is 24 today In these days of 21st Century contests, it’s becoming common that we’re getting alumni from the Junior version. No-one’s yet done the double, but it’s only a matter of time. In 2023, today’s birthday girl ირინა ‘ირუ’ ხეჩანოვი/Irina ‘Iru’ Khechanovi took […]
#BIRTHDAY: Dion Cooper from the Netherlands is 31 today Do you have a penchant for duets? Do you like the close harmonies when two well-suited singers are paired up for a gem of a song? Do you like it when they stand millimetres apart and shout at each […]
#BIRTHDAY: Reiley from Denmark is 27 today The singers in our favourite TV show come from all over our fair continent (and beyond of course). You name a place in Europe, and there’s probably at least one singer who is associated with that place. But until a certain […]
#BIRTHDAY: Victor Vernicos from Greece is 18 today It’s been many a year since a lower age limit on performers meant that we said to goodbye to precocious child stars at our favourite TV show. They do have their own show now, which means a more level-playing field […]
#BIRTHDAY: Käärijä from Finland is 31 today We often say that anyone can win the top prize in our favourite TV show. Past performance is no guide to future performance and all that. The same can apply to language. While one language pervades most contests these days, there […]
#BIRTHDAY: Theodor Andrei from Romania is 20 today Some songs earn notoriety for a number of different reasons. They could be a winner. They could be – to coin the oft-used but incorrect phrase – the “real winner”. Or they could have been that far wide of the […]