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Kaliopi to sing Black & White in Baku!

Kaliopi Bukle was recently chosen by the broadcaster, MKTV, to represent FYR Macedonia at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Baku in May.  Now it has been confirmed she will sing a song entitled, Black & White. MKTV received numerous compositions from famous songwriters at home and also abroad.  But they finally decided on Black… Read more

Bulgaria semi final – 12 acts qualify for final

Bulgaria began their selection procedure for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest tonight.  22 acts performed in the semi final.  12 acts made it to the final to be held on 29 February.  They were determined by a combination of SMS voting and and expert academy/jury voting. The acts and songs taking part tonight were –… Read more

Nika & Eva Prusnik and Eva Boto are the finalists in Slovenia

After a long series of heats going back to October 2011 the competition, Misija Evrovizija, in Slovenia to decide the finalists for the EMA has concluded.  To the final will go sisters, Nika & Eva Prusnik, and Eva Boto.  It was the end of the road on this occasion for Nika Zorjan. In the final show… Read more

Goldi Halili releases international video for Albanian national final song

Goldi Halili has participated in the last three Festivali i Këngës in Albania.  She has recently released an official international promo video for the song, Në krahët e tua, that was in the 2010 festival.  It is now in English and titled, Find Me.  The song has been totally reworked and is now in an upbeat dance… Read more

Rona Nishliu to represent Albania in Baku!!

Rona Nishliu will represent Albania at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. Rona won the Festivali i Këngës with the song Suus.  Albania held two semi finals through the week where 10 songs from each show qualified for the final.  20 songs took part in the final tonight. This was the 50th anniversary of the Festivali i Këngës.  On… Read more

Albania: 10 more acts qualify from 2nd semi final

10 more acts qualified for the final of Festivali i Këngës in Albania.  The second semi final took place in Tirana tonight.  Frederik Ndoçi, who represented Albania at the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest, participated this evening along with former national finalists such as Iris Hoxha, Mariza Ikonomi, Kamela Islamaj and Goldi Halili. The 14 acts… Read more

First semi final in Albania – 10 songs to the final

The first semi final of the 2012 Albanian national selection, Festivali i Këngës, took place yesterday in Tirana.  14 songs competed and 10 qualified for the final on 29 December.  The festival this year has reached a significant milestone of 50 years.  There will be a special show celebrating this event on 28 December. The… Read more

Pastora Soler to represent Spain in Baku

Spain have internally selected popular singer, Pastora Soler, to represent them at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Baku.  There will be a national final and the song will be decided by the public and a jury.  TVE pondered over many bids from local acts and decided that Pastora will be the best candidate for Eurovision.… Read more

Group Candy ready for Junior Eurovision with new mix and retro video

The 2011 Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Yerevan is getting closer and Group Candy from Georgia will be using a new mix of the song and have prepared a promotional video with a 70s and 80s theme.  The girls wear afro wigs in the video of Candy Music which has a retro disco sound. Group Candy are… Read more

Kaliopi to represent FYR Macedonia at 2012 Eurovision Song Contest

Kaliopi Bukle has been chosen by MKTV to represent FYR Macedonia at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest.  Kaliopi was the FYR Macedonia representative at the pre-qualifying round for the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Samo Ti but did not make it to the final. Kaliopi is one of the most popular singers in… Read more

62 songs through to the next phase in Malta!

A jury have selected 62 songs to go forward and take part in the next phase of selecting Malta’s 2012 Eurovision Song Contest entry.  The jury had a massive job of sifting through 161 entries.  Fabrizio Faniello (Malta 2001, 2006) is amongst the competitors. Some popular names from previous national finals are also taking part again including Eleanor… Read more

Sophie releases revamped version of Love To Love You

Sophie took part in the 2010 Malta Eurosong with Love to Love You.  Now she has made a new version of the song and this will be her first official release through United Kingdom based music company, Thru The Mill. Love to Love You is written by Sophie with her producer from Malta, Elton Zarb.  The… Read more

All Eyes on Romina Mamo as she releases debut album

Romina Mamo took part in the 2003 and 2005 Malta Song For Europe competitions.  Now she has released her debut album, Eyes On Me, with songs from various composers including Eurovision writers Gerard James Borg and Philip Vella. Romina has been successful in many festivals in Malta and abroad.  Her song in the 2003 Malta Song… Read more

Azerbaijan receives 119 applicants for national selection

Azerbaijan have received 119 applications from participants wishing to take part in the 2012 national final selection process.  Applicants had from 15 October to 25 October to submit their applications.  The national selection will be called Milli Seçim Turu. Ictimai tv have confirmed the selection process will be the same method that selected Eldar &… Read more

Martina Avramoska wins first prize in Moscow ‘Open Europe’ festival

Martina Avramoska participated in the 2010 FYR Macedonian Junior Eurovision selection with the song, Zapajte.  She has now won first prize at the Open Europe festival in Moscow. She performed two songs from former Eurovision singers, Jelena Tomasevic (Serbia 2008) and Elena Risteska (FYR Macedonia 2006). Martina won the first prize in her category in… Read more

Will Ivan be a Superhero for Bulgaria at Junior Eurovision?

Ivan Ivanov has won the Bulgarian Junior national selection with the song,  Supergeroy (Superhero).  10 acts competed in the final.  The voting was a combination of expert jury and televoting.  One of the presenters was Joanna, from Deep Zone, who represented Bulgaria at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest. Ivan is 11 years old and was born… Read more

Rachel wins Junior Netherlands national selection

Rachel Traets has won the ticket to represent the Netherlands at the 2011 Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Yerevan, Armenia on 3 December.  Rachel came first out of 5 acts in the national final with the song, Ik Ben Een Teenager (I am a Teenager). Rachel is 13 years old and is from Wouw in the… Read more

Femke to Junior Eurovision for Belgium

Femke will represent Belgium at the 2011 Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Yerevan with the song, Een Kusje Meer (One More Kiss).  Following a long series of elimination shows the final was decided with 4 acts competing for the place in Armenia in December this year. Femke is 11 years old from the town of… Read more

Lidiya Zablotskaya to represent Belarus at 2011 Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Lidiya Zablotskaya will represent Belarus at the 2011 Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Armenia with the song Angely Dobra (Angels of Goodness).  Lidiya was announced as the winner from the Belarus national selection where 10 junior performers battled to represent their country. Lidiya Zablotskaya is 13 years old.  She won the most votes from a… Read more

Mike Spiteri wins 2011 Konkors Kanzunetta Indipendenza in Malta

Mike Spiteri represented Malta at the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest with Keep Me In My Mind.  The song finished in 10th position.  Now Mike has won the 2011 Konkors Kanzunetta Indipendenza in Malta with the song, B’Rieda Ta’ L-Azzar (Faith Of Steel). The Konkors Kanzunetta Indipendenza is the 2nd most important music contest in Malta… Read more

Ooh Aah…Gina G makes come back…for a Just A Little bit more!!

Gina G represented the United Kingdom at the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest with Ooh Aah…Just A Little Bit.  She finished in 8th place.  Now Gina has made a comeback to the pop scene with a brand new single.  The song is called Next 2 You.  Gina G was born in Australia and decided to move… Read more

Domenique in popular Maltese drama and hopes for future Eurovision success

Domenique Azzopardi has had a very busy year.  She participated in the Malta Eurosong with I’ll Follow The Sunshine written by Ralph Siegel and also the Malta Summer Hit Contest.  Now she is successfully starring in a new popular Maltese drama called D.R.E.A.M.S. Domenique was born to entertain.  She has participated several times in the Malta Junior Eurosong. … Read more

Sirusho launches new single & video

Sirusho, who represented Armenia at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest, has released a brand new single in English and it is called, I Like It.  She will shortly release a promotional video for this upbeat dance song.  I Like It is available now on iTunes. Sirusho took 4th place for Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest in… Read more