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Mila Janevska wins top prize at opera contests in Serbia and in Skopje

Mila Janevska was runner up in the 2009 FYR Macedonia Junior Eurovision national selection.  Now she is having success in opera music. She has just taken the first prize at the 6th International opera festival ‘Arandjelovac’ in Serbia and also at an international competition at home in Skopje. Mila Janevska took the silver medal position… Read more

EuroVisionary talks to Valentina Monetta

Valentina Monetta is back to represent San Marino for the second successive year.  She returns this time with the highly acclaimed song, Crisalide.  Here Valentina talks to EuroVisionary about taking part at Eurovision again, her new image, her experience in Baku in 2012 and much more. Congratulations, Valentina, on being selected to represent San Marino… Read more

Onanta Spahiu is back with new single at Top Fest 10

Onanta Spahiu follows up her summer 2012 hit, Touch Me, with Me mungon (I miss).  It is an entry in the Albanian music festival edition, Top Fest 10, and is set to be a big hit for her in her homeland. Onanta Spahiu has participated in the 2009 Festivali i Këngës with Dashurise i erdhi vjeshta and also… Read more

Semi Jaupaj returns with her band Grifshat ne Rapsodi

Semi Jaupaj took part in the Festivali i Këngës in Albania in 2010 and 2011. She has now returned with her band Grifshat ne Rapsodi with the song Peshk Breshk at the Top Fest 10 competition. Semi Jaupaj has participated in many festivals in Albania as a solo performer, in a duet and also with the… Read more

Malta: new songs for Domenique and Christian

Domenique Azzopardi and her brother, Christian, have both released new songs in Malta.  Domenique has recorded a Maltese version of Little Child (Mary Spiteri Malta ESC 1992).  It is called Tfajjel Ckejken.  Christian has released The Party Of Our Life, a song originally submitted for Eurovision. Domenique Azzopardi recently was a recent finalist at the 2013… Read more

Amandine Bourgeois releases official video clip for L’Enfer Et Moi

Amandine Bourgeois was recently selected to represent France at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest.  Now she has released the official video clip for her song, L’Enfer Et Moi.  The clip was produced by Seb K for Les Films de Morphée. The selection by France of Amandine Bourgeois is another page in her success story so far.… Read more

Aynishan releases new song with PRoMete

Aynishan Quliyeva was a finalist at the 2011 Azerbaijan national selection.  She has just released a new song called Her Verde with PRoMete.  The song is a slow piano r’n’b song with some rap and ethnic influences. Aynishan Quliyeva is a popular singer in Azerbaijan.  She was born in 1992 and is the daughter of… Read more

Moldova select Aliona Moon with A Million for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest

Moldova tonight selected Aliona Moon to represent them at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest with the song A Million. Moldova were the last country to select their representative for Malmö.  After two semi-finals 14 songs competed for the winning ticket to Sweden. The songs – 1. Cristina V & Glam Girls – Celebrate Here we go… Read more

Manuella Brečko releases Il Futuro

Manuella Brečko was a very popular contestant in the search for the Slovenian 2012 Eurovision entry in the tv show Misija Evrovizija.  She has now released her official debut single and video for Il Futuro.   Manuella Brečko was a semi-finalist in the Misija Evrovizija competition to find the 2012 Eurovision entry for Slovenia.  Manuella narrowly missed… Read more

Interview: Natália Kelly (Austria ESC 2013)

Natália Kelly will represent Austria at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest with her song, Shine.  Here she talks to EuroVisionary about her feelings at winning Österreich rockt den Song Contest, her plans leading up to Eurovision, her career and much more. 1. Congratulations, Natália, on winning the Österreich rockt den Song Contest. Can you describe your… Read more

Seven acts qualify from first semi-final in Moldova

Tonight Moldova held the first of two semi-finals of O melodie pentru Europa featuring 12 songs to search for their 2013 Eurovision Song Contest representative.  Seven acts progressed to the final to be held on 16 March in Chisinau by a combination of televoting and expert jury. The songs – 1. Diana Staver – Underestimated… Read more

Bulgaria: Elitsa & Stoyan change song for Malmö

Elitsa & Stoyan have had to change their entry for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest.  The song that won the Bulgarian national selection, Kismet, has been withdrawn due to a copyright issue.  It is replaced with the runner up song, Samo Shampioni, and this will now be the song to represent Bulgaria in Malmö. Elitsa Todorova & Stoyan Yankulov were… Read more

First release for Ervisa at Top Fest 10 in Albania

Ervisa Toci has released her debut song and has participated with Mos me zgjo (Do not wake me up) at the Top Fest 10 festival in Albania.  The song is composed and produced by Joniad Banushi who has contributed songs for Festivali i Këngës and other festivals. Ervisa is a rising star in Albania and her… Read more

Romania send Cezar to Malmö with It’s My Life

Cezar will fly the flag for Romania with the song It’s My Life at the 2013 Eurovision  Song Contest after winning the Selecţia Naţională Final held in Bucharest.  The winning song was selected after a combination 50% each of televoting and expert jury. After two semi-final shows Romania reached the final of the 2013 Selecţia Naţională.… Read more

Martina Avramoska sings in tribute concert to Tose Proeski

Martina Avramoska took part in the 2010 FYR Macedonia Junior Eurovision selection.  She recently took part in a special concert dedicated to the late, Tose Proeski.  The concert was called We Sing To The Stars.  Martina performed Can You Feel The Love Tonight. Martina Avramoska sang Zapejte in the FRY Macedonia Junior Eurovision national final.  She… Read more

Belarus: Alyona will now sing Solayoh in Malmö

Alyona Lanskaya won the Belarus Eurofest national selection with the song Rhythm Of Love.  Now Alyona has decided to change the song that she will perform in Malmö.  She will now sing Solayoh written by Marc Paelinck and Martin King. After the heartbreak of missing out on representing Belarus at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, where… Read more

Željko Joksimović releases new single

Željko Joksimovic has released a new single and video clip.  The song is called Ludak kao ja and is composed by Leontina Vukomanovic. Željko Joksimovic is one of the most popular and respected singers and composers in the Balkans and has competed at the Eurovision Song Contest twice as a performer for Serbia – Lane Moje (second place… Read more

ByeAlex will represent Hungary with Kedvesem at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest

ByeAlex tonight won the 2013 A Dal competition with the song, Kedvesem, and will represent Hungary at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest.  After three preliminary selections and two semi-finals, Hungary reached the conclusion with the grand final held in the MTV studios in Budapest. The songs  1. Tamás Vastag – Holnaptól He begins sitting on a bench.  The… Read more

Israel: Three more acts qualify from second semi-final in Kdam 2013

Israel held the second semi-final of Kdam 2013.  Three more songs qualified for the final on 7 March. The fourth placed song goes in to a wildcard selection show on 3 March. The songs – 1. Sarit Avitan – My Love  A mid tempo song to begin. Sarit is wearing a long gold dress and… Read more

Israel: Three acts qualify from first semi-final of Kdam 2013

Israel tonight held the first semi-final of Kdam 2013.  Three songs qualified for the grand final on 7 March.  The fourth placed song goes in to a wildcard selection show on 3 March.  Two more semi-finals will be held over the next two days – 27 and 28 February respectively. The songs – 1. Laila – Bo… Read more

Interview: Lerika (Russia 2012 Junior Eurovision participant)

Lerika represented Russia at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest with her highly acclaimed performance of her entry, Sensatsiya.  Here she talks to EuroVisionary about her Junior Eurovision experiences (she also took part in the 2011 contest representing Moldova with No, No), her career so far and her future plans. First of all, Lerika, congratulations on… Read more

A Dal third heat: Six more acts qualify in Hungary

The third heat of A Dal, the Hungarian national selection took place in Budapest tonight. Ten more acts performed and the six more acts qualified for the next phase via televoting and jury votes.  There will be two semi finals of A Dal before the grand final to decide who will represent Hungary at the… Read more

Slovenia and Cyprus present their songs for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest

Slovenia and Cyprus today revealed the songs they will send to the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest.  Hannah will represent Slovenia with Straight Into Love and Despina Olympiou will fly the flag for Cyprus with An Me Thimase (If You Remember Me). A press conference was held at the RTVSLO headquarters in Ljubljana to present Straight Into… Read more