#OBITUARY: Guy Bonnet of France has died French singer songwriter Guy Bonnet has died aged 78. The representative of France as a performer at two Eurovision Song Contests, and the writer of a third song, he passed away in the French city of Montpellier. His first attempt as […]
#BIRTHDAY: David Civera from Spain is 45 today One of the things about taking part in our favourite TV contest is the audience. Yes, it’s a TV show first and foremost, but there will always be a crowd that you have to sing to too. In the good […]
#BIRTHDAY: Mariella Farré from Switzerland is 61 today Our friends in Switzerland are desperate for their third win. Desperate I tell you. After leading (or co-leading) the winners table for three years, they’ve been stuck on two wins for 35 years. And they’ve had some close calls since. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Piasek from Poland is 53 today Have you ever wondered why a country can do well in the Junior version of our favourite TV show, but don’t quite have the same success at the Big One? Exhibit A: Poland. Exhibit B: Armenia. Our friends in Exhibit A […]
#BIRTHDAY: Sakis Rouvas from Greece is 52 today Any country can win our favourite TV show. Even a country that languishes way down low when the scores come in can confound those critics and finish first. Just look at Portugal. That was a good win. At the end […]
#BIRTHDAY: Mélanie Cohl from Belgium is 42 today Another day, another birthday, and today it comes from plucky little Belgium. You know the place – capital of Europe and made up of a conglomeration of various communities that sometimes speak to each other. Of course, with a country […]
#BIRTHDAY: Koit Toome from Estonia is 45 today It’s often nice when we see people having another go at winning European singing’s biggest prize. After all, plenty of people have tried on several occasions to become that song. Back in 1998, we saw today’s birthday boy Koit Toome […]
#BIRTHDAY: Sanda Ladoși from Romania is 54 today A whole host of countries have yet to finish first at our favourite TV show. Will one of them break that duck this year? Or will it be a ‘popular’ Nordic win yet again? We’d like to see a new […]
#TOP250: Ireland’s story You may have been slightly confused over the two polls establishing a Top 250 for 2023. We’re not going to go through the reasons why there were two polls. There are other avenues for that. But at Eurovision Ireland we thought we’d look how Ireland’s […]
#BIRTHDAY: Tusse from Sweden is 22 today A new year, with a whole new set of opportunities to get on. We know that in May someone will win the Grand Prix of our favourite TV show. In the meantime, we get oodles of national finals to come. And […]