Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, has offically announced that Moscow will be the host city for the Eurovision Song Contest which will be held in May of 2009. The reference group will still have to officially agree, but they are not likely to disagree with the Russian proposal. Russia is hosting the biggest music… Read more
Teach-In, one of the most popular Dutch bands, paticipated in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1975. They successfully won the contest that year and they became very popular with their strong pop ethics. The group Teach-In was formed in 1969 in Enschede, Netherlands. The first members were Hilda Felix (vocals), Henk Westendorp (vocals), John Snuverink (vocals, guitar),… Read more
İstanbul, the biggest city of Turkey, will have big preperations for the marathon "HumanRace", which will be running in 25 cities from all over the world. The biggest prize will be a Kenan Doğulu concert for more than 50.000 people at the end of the race. "Shake it up" Kenan, the 2007 Eurovision representative of… Read more
The preselection of the nominee for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, which will be held in Cyprus this year, has concluded in Armenia. Monika Manucharova, a twelve year old talented girl who is homeless, won the selection with her ambition and took the ticket for Limassol. Monika Manucharova has a mature voice for a twelve… Read more
Elnur and Samir, the Azerbaijan angels from the Eurovision Stage, suprisingly announced that they will never be paticipating in the contest again. They reached 7th place at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade. Azerbaijan, who was represented for the very first time in the Eurovision Song Contest, has been shocked with the news from… Read more
The music festival called Çeşme International Song Contest has started in Izmir, Turkey. This year is the 19th time the contest has been held in Turkey. Many popular singers and groups will perform on stage seperate from the contest. Among those are Ani Lorak and Ajda Pekkan. Izmir, the third biggest city in Turkey, will… Read more
Elitsa Todorova and Stoyan Yankulov , the Bulgarian representatives at last year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki, gave their support against global warming with their hit song called "Water". As it will be remembered that song reached a 5th place in Helsinki. Bulgaria is the only country that offers real mineral water for free to the… Read more
Boaz Mauda, the Israeli representative in the Eurovision Song Contest this year, will appear in another event called "Song of the Mediterranean Contest". As everyone will remember, he was 9th in this year’s Eurovision in Serbia. The contest, which will begin this Saturday and continue until next Monday, will be held in Montenegro. The first… Read more
Sertab Erener decided to join a very big concert organization called ‘Fanta Gençlik Festival’ after she had released her latest album named ‘Sertab Goes to Club’ at the begining of 2008. She will be remembered as winner of Eurovision 2003 in Riga. The advertised programme which Sertab has taken part in has already begun to… Read more
After the long and tiring way from Belgrade, the Turkish rock band Mor ve Ötesi has begun their concert tour in Germany before their concerts in Turkey. As will be remebered, their placing was 7th at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade. Although Mor ve Ötesi has returned in a tired way from Belgrade,… Read more
Turkish pop star Kenan Doğulu gave a charity concert for thousands of people. Kenan Doğulu, who represented Turkey in the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest, gave a wonderful concert yesterday. This time he shook with thousands of fans in aid of people who have apoplectic of spinal cord at the İstanbul Gösteri Merkezi (Show Center, İstanbul). About €120,000 was raised from… Read more
The Turkish media has shown their reactions after the contest ended. Sabah news said " Winner is Russia! Dima Bilan have won with the song called "Believe" in wonderful Belgrade Arena. The biggest tragedy belonged to only TRT’s commentator Bülend Özveren. At the end of the show he said, "I really couldn’t follow up the results…In fact… Read more
Although Azerbaijan enters the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time this year, Elnur – the Azerbaijani representative – talked about challenging for a possible victory at the contest, ”We believe that we will win if we perform well.” Elnur and Samir are the first representatives from Azerbaijan and that makes the contest more important… Read more
This year’s Eurovision Song Contest will be a different kind of show for the San Marinese people. They will participate for the very first time in Belgrade and it will definitely be a new adventure for them. Nicola, Miodio’s lead singer, took some time out of his busy schedule to answer a few questions for us. The… Read more
The Turkish rock group Mor ve Ötesi have started promoting their Eurovision song called ‘Deli’. It seems that the group will have as long and hard a tour as many of the other 2008 entrants are undertaking. The group started their tour in April and it will continue up until the contest. Their promo tour includes both concerts… Read more
Kalomira, the American-Greek singer who will represent Greece in Belgrade, was in Turkey as part of her promo schedule. She appeared on a TV talk-show called ‘Beyaz Show’ to promote her song and she also took some time to answer Beyazit Öztürk’s (host) questions. The show was aired yesterday night on Turkish TV, Kanal D’s talk-show ‘Beyaz Show’ which was watched by millions of people in Turkey and throughout Europe.… Read more
Turkish ”superstar” Sibel Tüzün has started to film her second movie, called ‘Çılgın Dersane (Crazy School)’, according to her fan club. After preparing for the new maxi single, which will be out in the Spring, Sibel started working non-stop on her new movie. This time it seems that the set will be harder for her. The filming of the movie… Read more
Mor ve Ötesi will be representing Turkey at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Deli. This is the music video made for the song. Read more
Elnur and Samir have finally announced their plans for a promotional tour for the Eurovision Song Contest which will be held in Belgrade this year. Elnur Hüseynov and Samir Javadzadeh mentioned that they will start their promo tour as soon as possible. There are several countries in which they will showcase their entry. Ukraine will be the first country to visit. Greece,… Read more
The group Mor ve Ötesi has started on their mission in the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest which will be held in Belgrade, Serbia this year. The group members came together to make the video of their entry, ‘Deli’. Their photographer was Okan Bayülgen with director Ezel Akan. The designer was Beyhan Murphy and costumes were designed by Ümit Ünal.… Read more