Eurovision Winner Conchita Wurst gave a powerful TEDx speech on “Love Followed By Respect” that you can watch here. Some of you may never have heard of a ‘TEDx Event’. If so here is a quick guide to their format and more importantly their goal. http://youtu.be/ouWx7vm-uKs What […]
AUSTRIA – Eurovision Winner Conchita Wurst last night dazzled over 40 thousand people at the annual ‘Life Ball’ event in Vienna despite feeling nerves. “I’m very nervous … because tonight it feels like I’m singing infront of my family … as I support LIFE BALL for the past […]
The World Music Awards in Monte Carlo took place and there was a distinct Eurovision flavour to the proceedings. 2 former performers won big on the night. Anggun who represented France at Eurovision in 2012 came away with the award for Best Indonesian Artist (her homeland). The award […]
It seems that Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken the same tact as some of his senior politicians and spoken out about the recent win of Conchita Wurst at Eurovision 2014. One gets the very strong message that the Russian public gave in their high-ranking of Wurst in […]
Eurovision Winner Conchita Wurst is showing that her success at the contest has gone bigger and has captured the mainstream imagination of the public. This week saw her being interviewed on both BBC programmes “The One Show” and “Newsnight” – two of the BBC’s flagship shows for popular […]
Eurovision composer steps out into the spotlight with his new song. ‘Take My Body Close” could be a threat or a promise if I was singing it but in this instance it is thankfully an invitation from a Eurovision composer familiar to many across Europe. Our good friend […]
The Netherlands – Last year saw the return of Dutch Eurovision Fortunes when Anouk took the 4 times winning country back to the Top 10 at the contest. On her return she got the ‘Big Band’ treatment of her song “Birds”. Well it would have been rude if […]
UKRAINE – It seems that Zlata Ognevich has not been grounded “Like Gravity” as her star is ascending. Her Eurovision entry from 2013 brought the Ukraine to 3rd place and that was followed up by presenting the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv. However she is back to […]