#BIRTHDAY: Tor Endresen from Norway is 65 today That thing when you’ve tried for years to do something. And then when you get to do that thing you’ve been yearning for, you end up feeling disappointed. It’s happened to us all. It makes you wonder why you bother. […]
#OBITUARY: Françoise Hardy has died aged 80 French singer-songwriter, actress and model Françoise Hardy has died after a long period of ill health, aged 80. Whilst France, she represented Monaco in the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest. Françoise was born in Paris in 1944. After a troubled childhood she […]
#BIRTHDAY: Amandine Bourgeois from France is 45 today It’s an old adage that anyone can won our favourite TV show. If the song’s good enough, it’ll shine through. And past performance is no guide to future performance. Take France for example, only going and finishing second in Rotterdam […]
#BIRTHDAY: Didrik Solli-Tangen from Norway is 37 today The home entrant. To be fair, they haven’t had the best of times of late. There was a time when singing in a contest that could taking place in your city was a guarantee for a top position. Not so […]
#BIRTHDAY: Célia Lawson from Portugal is 50 today If you ever get the gig to represent your country, you have to be prepared for failure as well as success. Only one country can win, so the chances are you won’t. So it’s a case of how well, relatively, […]
#BIRTHDAY: Katy Garbi from Greece is 62 today Do you remember when our friends in Greece were struggling to get any success in our favourite TV show? Those times have changed, and Greece can mix it with the best of them now. In the 1990s, there was a […]
#BIRTHDAY: Franka Batelić from Croatia is 32 today Our friends in Croatia have had their ups and downs over the years. It’s been mainly downs lately although there has been a recent ‘up’. And they should take comfort that anyone can win our favourite TV show. Just look […]
#BIRTHDAY: Igor Cukrov from Croatia is 40 today Do you notice that some areas specialise in certain styles of music? For example, our friends in Finland like their hard rock, and they’ve occasionally sent it to our favourite TV show. The Balkans, by contrast, like their big ballads. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Colm ‘C T’ Wilkinson from Ireland is 80 today Over the years, many big stars have taken part in our favourite TV show. Some are stars of the charts, some are TV personalities, but plenty have excelled in musical theatre. Back in 1978, the contest was opened […]
#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. […]