I started a new series to remember the fact that Eurovision is 70 years old. 28 of those years I had attended Eurovision at the host city, but unfortunately just 25 years I had press accreditation so I could meet the participating artists and therefor I will focus just on artists from those 25 years.1995 was my first year with accreditation and of course that year stands out in my memory.  23 artists participated that year in Dublin.  I met 22 of them, the 23rd one refused to meet me because I was from South Africa.

8 of the 22 artists were very special and I still cherish them to this day as part of my Eurovision experience. These are the 8 artists from 1995 I will write about.

Fifth in line is PHILIPP KIRKOROV who represented RUSSIA at the Eurovision song contest with LULLABY FOR A VOLCANO. The song was sung in Russian. I really liked his song but I was unable to get a promo CD single but got the opportunity to buy a double CD of PHILIPP which featured the song in Russian, but several other interesting songs. Although this was the first time I met Philipp, we met several years at Eurovision. The biggest highlights were meeting him in Helsinki with DMITRI KOLDUN with WORK YOUR MAGIC, in Belgrade with ANI LORAK and in Lisbon with DO-RE-DOS with MY LUCKY DAY.

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