Today TRT (Turkish National Broadcaster) have again confirmed that they will not return to Eurovision 2014 until changes are made to the voting procedure and the “Big 5” status. Ibrahim Sahin (Director General at TRT) announced at the Turkish National Song Festival, that Turkey would not be at […]
Jessy Matador from France has done it and now the 1999 Portuguese Eurovision Singer Rui Bandeira has lent his new song “Loucura de Amor” to the Zumba fitness craze. Rui Bandeira is well known for representing Portugal at Eurovision in 1999 with the song “Como tudo começou.” He […]
French Eurovision representative 2010 – the very agile Jessy Matador is a busy man with 2 albums released on 2 months. He has released a new song which is a cover version of the #1 song “Dansa Pausa” by Swedish band Panetoz. Everything you would expect from Jessy […]
“Eurovision – The Movie” could be coming your way shortly. June 30th to July 3rd saw the “Paris Cinema film festival” take place. This festival connects international filmmakers with French and International producers, sales agents and distributors. Belgian director Bavo Defurne’s movie script for the movie “Souvenirs “- the […]
Eurovision winner Dima Bilan (Russia 2008) and Jessy Matador (France 2010) both release music this week. Dima Bilan – Russia’s most successful singer at Eurovision has released the new song “Malish/Baby” that comes for his album “Dotyanis”. While French Representative Jessy Matador only 3 months ago released the album “Vemino […]
Jessy Matador struck a chord at Eurovision 2010 that got people dancing and was the first French Eurovision entry to top the charts in France in what seems like a thousand years. “Allez Ola Olé” spent 4 weeks at #1 in France and he has followed up that […]
The Draw for the running order for the Big 6 has been made. Earlier this year Sweden – as hosts – drew position 16. The Big 5 today drew what half of the running order they will appear in. They are as follows Spain – First Half of […]
Cascada are up next for Germany and we both have some interesting things to say about this rehearsal. (YouTube Video Courtesy of ESCKaz) Andrew’s view Raquel(sorry it’s Natalie) is sound very low-key in the vocals today, lots of off-key moments and straining in the first run through. However visually […]
Spain, France and Germany have had their first rehearsals at Eurovision 2013. Below are the videos of their performances Spain (YouTube Video Courtesy of Eurovision) France (YouTube Video Courtesy of Eurovision) Germany (YouTube Video Courtesy of Eurovision) So of the first 3 finalists – who gets your vote? […]