Valentina Monetta is a well know face to Eurovision Song Contest fans as she also represented San Marino last year. She had previously mainly been singing jazz and RnB and as such her 2012 entry; The Social Network Song, wasn’t really appreciated among the fans. This year’s entry suits her voice a lot better – and to show that it is something different than last year, she also changed appearance dramatically.
She is 38 years old and through her career that started in 1995, she has both been working solo as well as in bands – and she enjoys it all. As long as she can get to sing live and be close to the audience, as she empathize that she really loves that.
To followers of the Eurovision Song Contest German songwriter Ralph Siegel needs no introduction. With this being his 21st Eurovision entry he is the most participating ever. He first took part in 1974 representing Luxembourg with the song Bye Bye, I Love You, which Ireen Sheer sang to a 4th place. Over the years he have represented Germany a total of 14 times, Luxembourg three times, Switzerland and Montenegro each once and including this year he will have written the San Marino entry twice.
Only one of Ralph Siegel’s compositions have won the Eurovision Song Contest. That was in 1982 where Nicole captured the heart of most Europeans with the song Ein bißchen Frieden. In total half of his entries ends up in top 10 though with this being the case for 10 of his 20 entries so far. His last two Eurovision songs however failed to reach the final. He also wrote Lys Assia‘s All In Your Head, which they tried to get into the Swiss final for this year’s contest. This song was not at all appreciated at all by the fans who declared both Lys and Ralph for being too desperate and having problems accepting that their time is long gone.
Time will tell how the Ralph Siegel critics will react to Crisalide, but the song should certainly appeal quite wide across Europe and maybe even bring San Marino into the final of the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time.
