Song 56 in our list of 100 Ralph Siegel songs bring us to THIS NIGHT SHOULD NEVER END from Petra Frey who was an entry in the Austrian selection one year. Tobi Jooste of South Africa covered it in Afrikaans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqfCZsmDDec
Tobi Jooste covered the 2005 Eurovision entry from Malta ANGEL in Afrikaans as ENGEL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2RCZukON8U
Tobi Jooste covered the 2008 Eurovision entry of Romania in Afrikaans as HIERBINNE.
Tobi Jooste covered the 2006 Eurovision entry from Malta I DO. He covered the song in mainly Afrikaans with some English parts.
In 2004 Jonsi represented Iceland at the Eurovision song contest with HEAVEN. Tobi Jooste of South Africa covered it in Afrikaans as KAAPSTAD.
Tobi Jooste from South Africa covered the 1988 Eurovision winner NE PARTEZ PAS SANS MOI of Celine Dion in Afrikaans. Celine represented Switzerland.
Above the cover by three brother called QUALITRIO and below the by Tobi Jooste & Gloria Bosman – a tribute to Nelson Mandela.
In position 44 is I DO by Fabrizio Faniello of Malta – their 2006 entry. There is also a great Afrikaans cover by boy band HI 5 called VERGEWE MY WEER, plus another great cover by TOBI JOOSTE – he calls his cover also I DO.
Time to look at the next Afrikaans artist who has registered to take part in the first Afri music song contest and have done Eurovision covers. It is Tobi Jooste who has done at least 11 Eurovision covers.
01 – Iceland 2004 (Afrikaans)
02 – Netherlands 1981 (Afrikaans)
03 – Switzerland 1988 (Afrikaans)
04 – Romania 2008 (Afrikaans)
05 – Ukraine 2003 (Afrikaans/English)
06 – Malta 2005 (Afrikaans)
07 – Malta 2006 (Afrikaans)
08 – Malta 2006 (English)
09 – Norway 2010 (Afrikaans)
10 – Norway 2010 (Italian)
11 – Latvia 2007 (English) in duet with Gloria Bosman
He also writes original songs, but lets hope he enters a euro cover and an original song.
Pre-registration to the Afri music song contest opened on Friday 4 August and will close on 3 October – so artists have a full two months to register. Pre registration is very easy, takes about 1 minute and is FREE. It is, however, important to register as soon as possible so planning can be done. It is also important for sponsors, as they are looking to see what the interest is among the various countries. We also will give promotion in the 2 months and it is obvious we can only give promotion to artists once they have registered as we will do today over about 5 hours by focusing on the first 5 SOUTH AFRICAN artists who have registered. Starting with TOBI JOOSTE who was the artist to be the 5th one to register. Tobi is a singer from Johannesburg and has been singing professionally for over 10 years. Tobi’s first CD contained at least euro cover in Afrikaans – Netherlands 1981 (Het is een wonder of Linda Williams) as well as a Dutch selection song – Een beetje van dit of Vulcano. Over the years Tobi has covered several other Euro songs. He has also done original songs successfully. We wait to see what songs Tobi will enter when song entries open in November.
