Romina Mamo & students {copyright: Bendedittu Productions}
Romina Mamo has had much success in music festivals in Malta and internationally. She has also appeared in the Malta Song For Europe on four occasions.
Romina is a very busy girl because besides singing she is also a teacher. She has just recorded a music video with her students for a fund raising activity in Malta. It was recorded at the school in a new recording studio and the filming and editing was by a 14 year old student. Most of the students had never sung before.
The song is entitled Solidarjetà – B’qalb wahda int u jien (Solidarity – We are one heart). The production is by Benedittu Productions – secondary school – Performing Arts Education. The song was composed by Philip Vella (composer of several Maltese Eurovision songs, and lyrics by Carmelo Mamo (Romina’s father).
You can see the video for Solidarjetà – B’qalb wahda int u jien below.
The winner of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, Conchita Wurst, recently released her new single You Are Unstoppable. Now the official video clip has been released to accompany the track.
You Are Unstoppable is composed by Richard Andersson, Dag Lundberg, Niclas Lif and Johannes Henriksson. The producer is David Bronner and co-producer is Sebastian Arman and mastered by Zino Mikorey. The music video production is by Wildruf FILM.
You can see the video for You Are Unstoppable below.
Monika Linkytė and Vaidas Baumila will represent Lithuania at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest with their song This Time and they will perform as the opening act of semi-final 2.
Now Monika and Vaidas have recorded the Lithuanian version of their song and it is entitled Dabar. You can here this version below.
Lana Jurčević & Luka Nižetić {copyright: Croatia Records Music}
Two former participants at the Croatian Dora festival have released a duet together. Lana Jurčević and Luka Nižetić have released Od najgorih najbolji (From the best of the worst).
Lana is a very popular singer in Croatia and the Balkans and has had many hits. She participated in the Dora selection in 2004 with her song Prava istina.
Luka has also had much success in his homeland and he also participated at the Dora selection including his song Proljeće in 2005.
Od najgorih najbolji is a classy Croatian pop rock ballad with a passionate video to accompany. You can see the video below.
Source: Lana – Facebook official; www.esccovers.com
Domenique Azzopardi has already had much success at the age of 20 years old. She has participated in the Malta Eurosong on three occasions (2011 I’ll Follow The Sunshine – composed by Ralph Siegel; 2013 Too Little Too Late and in November 2014 Take Me As I Am). She also had much success festival in Italy, Tunisia, Romania and Bulgaria as well as local popular festivals like Konkors Kanzunetta Indipendenza and the Summer Hit Song Contest that she won in 2014 with Back To …
Domenique is a regular musical guest on the popular Maltese entertainment show, Sibtek. She sings many different styles of songs and hits. She has covered several Eurovision songs including Die For You(Antique – Greece 2001); Birds (Anouk – The Netherlands 2013), and Solayoh (Alyona Lanskaya – Belarus 2013).
Domenique has just performed the 1999 winning Eurovision song for Sweden by Charlotte Nilsson – Take Me To Your Heaven. She gives a great interpretation of the catchy song. You can see her perform the song below.
The Summer Hit Song Contest was revived in Malta in 2014. It proved a big hit with viewers and artists. The 2015 finalists have been announced on The Celebrity Night tv show on F Living channel hosted by Deo Grech. A lot of acts and writers will be familiar to those who follow the Malta Eurosong finals and local festivals.
The 21 acts and song and writers are –
Danica Muscat – Amour (Philip Vella)
Maria Cassar – Astronaut (Marco Debono / Rita Pace)
Sarah Bonnici – Bandwagon (Pamela Bezzina / Emil Calleja Bayliss)
Michela Galea – Bounce Back (Renato Briffa / Emil Calleja Bayliss)
Jillianne Camilleri – Dangerous (Elton Zarb / Matt ‘Muxu’ Mercieca)
Rita Pace & Audrey Marie – Do It Better (Rita Pace)
Electro Velvet will represent the United Kingdom at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest with Still In Love With You. The duo, consisting of Alex Larke and Bianca Nicholas, performed the song live for the first time as part of the warm up for the Eurovision’s Greatest Hits show held in London in March.
Ervisa Toci recently performed her new single Kur ty te kam in the Top Fest 12 competition in Albania. Now Ervisa has made a cover of Love Me Like You Do by Ellie Goulding from the popular 2015 movie Fifty Shades Of Grey.
Ervisa’s charming vocals together with the production from the SWART team make a strong interpretation of the worldwide hit.
Ervisa’s sister, Dorina, was on the Eurovision stage in 2009 in Moscow as part of the Albanian team with Kejsi Tola and the song Carry Me In Your Dreams, and also participated in the Festivali i Këngës in Albania. We are sure to hear a lot more from both Ervisa and Dorina in the near future.
Bojana Stamenov will represent Serbia at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest with her song Beauty Never Lies. A new video has been released by the broadcaster, RTS.
Monika Linkytė & Vaidas Baumila will represent Lithuania at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna with their upbeat song, This Time.
The duo have just released a new video for This Time which includes lots of kissing from invited guests from all genders. The video showcases the happiness and love the song portrays.
