#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 […]
#BIRTHDAY: Alika from Estonia is 22 today Do you ever hear a song, that you quite like, and mis-hear a lyric? It could be because the singer’s diction is a little questionable, or they just sing loudly. Or it could even be deliberate and for comic effect. In […]
#BIRTHDAY: Mae Muller from the UK is 27 today If you were a Eurovision performer (and maybe you are), when would you want to perform in the Grand Final? First, so you can get to the free bar? Last, so the crowd will be nicely warmed up? Or […]
#BIRTHDAY: La Zarra is 37 today When you look at non-Europeans that participate in our favourite TV show, our friends in Canada must have provided more than their fair share. We’ve had one Canuck winner, and many others have tried. Today’s birthday girl La Zarra (née Fatima-Zahra Hafdi) […]
#BIRTHDAY: Gustaph from Belgium is 44 today Ah, the guilty pleasure. The term might be a little odd, but we all have the song that you think you shouldn’t like, but you do. It becomes your earworm when you least expect it, like buying yoghurt at the supermarket, […]
#BIRTHDAY: Monika Linkytė from Lithuania is 32 today What do you think of the three Baltic states? They had their fair share of success and failure, with those two things seemingly concentrated in some areas more than others. We know that Estonia has won, and Latvia has won. […]