Aurela Gaçe won the Festivali i Kenges and will represent Albania at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest in Germany. Aurela won the 49th Festivali i Kenges with the song Kënga ime. She had previously won this festival 3 times. Aurela now lives in USA. She beat off stroong competition from Alban Skënderaj & Miriam Cani.… Read more
Albania held the 2nd semi final to select the 9 more songs to progress to the final of the Festivali i Kenges. The big surprise is the 2009 representative, Kejsi Tola, did not qualify to the final. The songs that qualified for the final on 25 December 2010 are – 1. Besa Kokedhima E bukura ka… Read more
The first semi final of the Festivali i Kenges took place tonight. There will be 3 shows to decide the Albanian entry at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest in Germany. 16 established acts and 3 new acts took part in the first show. Expert juries selected 8 establised acts and 1 new act to progress… Read more
South African singer, Candy Benson, has included several Eurovision songs on her shortly to be released new album. Eurovision songs are now in big demand when artists release new albums in South Africa. Candy has recorded Lose Control (Finland 2009) and Always (Azerbaijan 2009) in English. She has also recorded This Is Our Night (Greece… Read more
Ukraine, almost unnoticed, held the 2nd semi final to decide what songs will progress to the national final in 2011. 5 more songs progressed to the final including Antastasiya Prihodko, who represented Russia in 2009 with Mamo. An expert jury decided on 4 songs and televoting confirmed 1 more entry to the Ukraine national final… Read more
Sophie Debattista talks about her hopes of representing Malta at the next Eurovision Song Contest and what she has been up to since taking part in the 2006 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Hello Sophie. What have you been up to since competing in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2006 with Extra Cute? Hi there,… Read more
The next phase of the Ukrainian selection took place on 5 December. This stage of the competition is actually the first semi final. In a change to the format the local broacaster, NTU, advised the previous 5 shows were quarter finals. The first semi final featured 8 acts that did not pass immediately at the… Read more
Thea Saliba, who represented Malta at the 2005 Junior Eurovision Song Contest with Make It Right, has released a new single. She launched the song, Caught You Out, at the prestigious 2010 Malta Music Awards. Caught You Out is produced by British songwriter and producer, L. Hobbs. The song is in the r&b style. Thea… Read more
Ukraine held their 5th semi final to decide what songs would progress to the final to eventually find their entry for the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest in Germany. The programme was hosted by Timur and Tetyana. The 3 songs to qualify were – Pavlo Tabakov Shake Your Body Jamala Smile Tatyana Vorzheva Vsyo Resheno You… Read more
The Public Broadcasting Services (PBS) in Malta have announced that 141 songs have been submitted for the 2011 national selection. This is up on the last selection where there were 123 songs entered. This year the contest is open to foreign composers providing the song is performed by a Maltese act. It is known that… Read more
The European Broadcasting Union have announced that Jon Ola Sand will be the new Executive Producer of the Eurovision Song Contest. He succeeds Svante Stockselius whose last major work was at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Minsk, Belarus last week. Mr Sand will start his new work on 1 January 2011. 40 people from 10 countries… Read more
Ukraine held the 4th semi final on 21 November to select 3 more acts to progress to the final. Anastasiya Prikhodko, who represented Russia at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest with Mamo, qualified for the final. The show was broadcast by the national broadcaster, NTU. The 3 acts to to be selected for the final… Read more
Armenia have won the 2010 Junior Eurovision Song Contest with the song, Mama, performed by Vladimir Arzumanyan. This proved a popular choice in the Minsk Arena, Belarus. Vladimir and his dancers gave a great stage performance. In a close and exciting voting it was down to the FYR Macedonia vote to confirm the winning song… Read more
The EBU Press Conference took place today at the Minsk Arena, Belarus. Svante Stockelius is confident the Junior Eurovision will continue for many years to come. The EBU Press Conference was jointly hosted by the EBU and the host country tv, BTRC. This year UNICEF is a co-producer with the EBU. All televoting proceeds will… Read more
Dimitry Koldun gave a press conference about his song especially written for UNICEF. The song is called A Day Without War. UNICEF is a partner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest because it is an excellent opportunity to reach out to a large audience. This event will be watched throughout Europe by children, teenagers and… Read more
All 14 countries performed their songs in the exact style that will be shown in the 2010 Junior Eurovision Song Contest on 20 November 2010. The show takes place at the Minsk Arena, Belarus. The show begins with a duet by previous Belarus winners of Junior Eurovision, Ksenia Sitnik (2005) and Alexey Zhigalkovich (2007). Then… Read more
Sophie represented Malta at the 2006 Junior Eurovision Song Contest with Extra Cute. She is now returning to the music scene with the release of a new single and album. Sophie, now 16 years old, has been working hard behind the scenes in the last year on her music career. She has signed to the Thru The… Read more
Elena Risteska, who represented FYR Macedonia at the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest, is in Minsk to support and coach their singer, Anja Veterova. Elena spoke to EuroVisionary about her forthcoming plans. Elena is working on her new album to be released in 2011. She is also very excited about a new tv show by M2… Read more
Here is the photo story of some acts appearing at the Euroclub on 17 November 2010 including some previous Junior Eurovision winners. Read more
Anja Veterova gave a great performance at the 2nd rehearsal for FYR Macedonia. Anja reached a very high note with her scream towards the end of the song. Anja Veterova was accompanied on stage by 2 girls and 3 boys. She gave a great and energetic show for her song, Eooo, Eooo. Anja’s song is… Read more
All 14 participants of the 2010 Junior Eurovision Song Contest have been rehearsing for Saturday night’s big show. The rehearsals have been going very well. EuroVisionary has arrived in Minsk and the first act we viewed was Malta. Nicole Azzopardi and her backing singers and dancers gave a great performance of Knock Knock!..Boom! Boom! at… Read more
Albania has announced the 32 acts that will compete in the Festivali i Kenges over 23, 24 and 25 December. As EuroVisionary revealed last week Kejsi Tola will return. Also, Dorina Garuci and Onanta Spahiu will take part in the festival again. 16 songs from established acts will take part in 2 semi finals. There will… Read more
Ukraine held their 3rd semi final on 14 November in the quest to find their entry for the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest in Dusseldorf, Germany in May 2011. Details of the show were kept very quiet but the following acts qualified to the final and have the chance to represent Ukraine at the next Eurovision… Read more
The 8th Junior Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Minsk, Belarus on 20 November 2010. EuroVisionary will be reporting from Minsk next week during the build up to the contest. 14 countries will participate next Saturday to see who will succeed Ralf Mackenbach from the Netherlands as the winner of the 2010 Junior Eurovision.… Read more
Dorina Garuci is hoping to participate again in the Festivali i Kenges and will hope to represent Albania at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest in Germany. She hopes she will be able to follow the success of last year’s competitor, Juliana Pasha. Dorina took part in the Festivali i Kenges last year and was highly… Read more
Kejsi Tola will return again to the Festivali i Kenges this year. Kejsi told EuroVisionary she will compete in the Albanian festival to select their song for the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest in Germany. Kejsi is very popular in her home country but is currently concentrating on her studies. She will take time out to… Read more