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AFRIKAANS COVER OF DENMARK 2016 – SOLDIERS OF LOVE

Yesterday we published information on an English cover of SOLDIERS OF LOVE, the 2016 Eurovision song by Lighthouse X – today it is an Afrikaans cover. It is called SOET IN MY SOUT (sweet in my salt) and is by Luzanne – this singer is knew to ESCCovers. More and more the trend here in South Africa is now to also just release a song via Itunes or such platforms as it gets more difficult to release CD’s.

http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1205219632?ls=1&app=itunes

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COMPETITION TIME – MALTA

Today is the 4th and last of our ESCCovers competitions. We just filled a gap between the voting shock/surprises which took a short break but will be back from tomorrow. Today’s competition is about Malta and hopefully you are not Breathless by now and have time to enter it.

You can win a memory stick which features the video of Claudia Faniello’s Breathlessly.

Again to win this, do the following:
1 – Like the Eurovision coverage facebook
2 – Name one of the songs Claudia had in the Malta selection previously.

All entries will again be put into a hat and a winner drawn and then he or she will have to send us their postal address.

The winners to the 4 competitions will be announced this coming weekend.

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SANDRA REEMER

ESCCovers felt various websites, facebooks and blogs gave a comprehensive account about the tragic death of Sandra Reemer who took part in Eurovision for the Netherlands several times in various ways. We had yesterday a small tribute to her music. We do not have a large collection of her songs as she was never really known in South Africa but the song that impressed most was INDONESIA – a vinyl single she brought out in 1981. In fact 90% of the people attending the tribute heard this song for the very first time.

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KAREL GOTT – THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Not sure how many people remember Karel Gott. He is the most “decorated ” artist from the old Czechoslovakia and took part in 1968 for Austria in the Eurovision song contest.
Now we have been informed  there is an exhibition on a boat ( 1500 square meters) with about 1000 different souvenirs of him!
They are expecting about 100 000 visitors to come to this exhibition before it ends in September.
Hopefully someone reading this will visit it and send us some pictures.
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COMPETITION TIME – SWEDEN

Today it is third of our 4 competitions – this time it is Sweden.

The prize you can win is the ROBIN BENGTSSON “I can’t go on” bag.

To win this, you have to do the following:

1 – go and like the Eurovision coverage facebook

2 – write to us at roy@esccovers.com and mention the name of Robin’s song from the 2016 Swedish selection

All entries will again be put into a hat and one will be drawn. That person will be asked to send us his/her postal address for the bag.

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