#BIRTHDAY: 18 Mar – Martine Clémenceau from France is 77 When your country has had success in our favourite TV show, the pressure is always on your singers to repeat that success year after year. But there often comes a year (or more), when those good placings desert […]
#BIRTHDAY: 17 Mar – Tamara Gachechiladze from Georgia is 43 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 […]
#BIRTHDAY: 16 Mar – Sandhja from Finland is 35 The Eurovision fortnight can be a long two weeks if they don’t quite go your way. You turn up in the host city a long time before the big Grand Final, and you have to hang in there till […]
#BIRTHDAY: 15 Mar – Kristian Kostov from Bulgaria is 26 It’s trailblazer birthday time. Are you excited? Is it because they were the first participant for their country? Or because they were the first winner for their country? It’s neither. Now we’re firmly established in the 21st Century, […]
#BIRTHDAY: 14 Mar – Kim Floor from Finland is 78 For your viewing pleasure in these exceptional times, we’re going back to a simpler age. A time of cosy contests all over in one short evening. A time of two jurors per country and two jurors only. And […]
#BIRTHDAY: 13 Mar – Rykka is 40 today Do you like it when we see people from outside Europe (or, since 2015, Australia), taking part in our favourite TV show? Do you want to see the best singers, wherever they’re from? Or should they just be European? Of […]
#BIRTHDAY: 11 Mar – Sarah McTernan from Ireland is 32 You have to feel for Ireland. Remember those heady days of the 1990s when RTÉ were being slowly and painfully bankrupted. Irish singers could do no wrong and it was a good time. Fast forward to today and […]
#BIRTHDAY: 10 Mar – Kyle Alessandro from Norway is 20 Are Eurovision performers getting younger? Well, we obviously have that minimum age for taking part in Big ESC. But are we seeing more teenagers? It’s maybe not the case, although as we all age, it may feel that […]
#BIRTHDAY: 9 Mar – Katja Ebstein from Germany is 81 There is an elite bunch of people out there who have taken part more than once. It’s as if they can’t get enough of the Eurovision drug. And I don’t mean Ibuprofen. But that elite club has advanced […]
#BIRTHDAY: 8 Mar – Sergej Ćetković from Montenegro is 50 When Yugoslavia disintegrated many years ago, we were always keen to see as many of its parts entering songs in our favourite TV show. All six of them (that are EBU members) have now, but some are sitting […]