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EUROVISION CONVENTION – BIANCA SHOMBURG

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It is now TIME to look at the 4th artist who will perform at the Eurovision convention in Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

It is BIANCA SHOMBURG who represented Germany at the 1997 Eurovision song contest with the Ralph Siegel and Bernd Meinunger song ZEIT. The English version is called TIME. So Bianca sang about Time long before Belarus had someone in 2015 and Ukraine someone in 2017 singing about TIME. Bianca sounds quite like Celine Dion and it is a pity we have not heard a lot from her in recent years. Maybe she will turn back the time in Frankfurt and sings some fantastic new songs.

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EUROVISION CONVENTION – MARGA BULT (DUTCH DIVAS)

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Marcha, also known as Marga Bult, is a Dutch singer and television presenter, who has been a member of the groups Tulip, Babe and Dutch Divas and is also known for her participation in the 1987 Eurovision Song Contest with the song RECHTOP IN DE WIND. The English version LOST IN GALE FORCE 10 is really good. In 1996 she bought of a CD single with a song called DA’S GOED FOUT but this was maybe a MISTAKE(FOUT) as it is not a good song. Marga will be at the Eurovision convention in Frankfurt as one part of Dutch Divas – the other Maggie Macneal. Hope they will entertain the crowd with someone special.

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EUROVISION CONVENTION – LOU

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We move to the second artist who will appear at the Eurovision convention in Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

Lou is the stage name of Louise Hoffner, a German pop singer.

She participated in the 2001 Eurovision national finals, coming in third place with HAPPY BIRTHDAY PARTY. Shortly before Christmas 2002, composer Ralph Siegel asked her if she would be interested in competing in the national finals again with “Let’s Get Happy”, a song he had written with lyricist Bernd Meinunger. Lou won the German 2003 finals and represented Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 in Riga where she came in 11th place. 

Hopefully she will sing these two songs in Frankfurt.

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EUROVISION CONVENTION – LYS ASSIA

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The 2017 Eurovision convention takes place 9 and 10 September in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. In the NIGHT OF EUROVISION gala concert, a lot of artists will take to the stage. ESCCovers will highlight them one by one, hopefully getting to all of them before the event.

The first one is Lys Assia, a Swiss singer who won the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956 with the song REFRAIN, composed by Emile Gardez and Geo Voumard.

In 2007 she teamed up with Beatrice and they brought out a CD together, although it features just two songs in duet, but several evergreens from Lys.

We are sure she still has it to entertain Euro fans 62 years after her victory.

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Andreas Martin

ANDREAS MARTIN

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This morning ESCCovers got a very sad e-mail.

“Do you remember Andreas Martin? About one month ago, his wife disappeared and has not been found since then. Now, also the public do not know about Andreas Martin. Some say he is in a psychiatric clinic”.

We know and love Andreas so much, from about 1984 when we discovered him and he songs. He took part for example in the German Eurovision selection in 1989 with HERZ AN HERZ which ended 4th that year.

South African music fans may not know Andreas as a singer, but many of his songs have become classics in Afrikaans covered by especially BLES BRIDGES – the most know is Andreas song ABSCHIED VON DEN STERNEN which Bles sang as REIK NA DIE STERRE.

Other fantastic songs of Andreas include SOLO TU (which Manie Jackson covered), AMORE MIO and DER HIMMEL KANN WARTEN.

After the death of two German schlager icons, CHRIS ROBERTS and ANDREA JURGENS, we cannot afford to loose another one.

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AFRI MUSIC SONG CONTEST – LUCKY NUMBER 13

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We have pre-registrations from 13 Countries:

01 – Nigeria
02 – Egypt
03 – Ghana
04 – Republic of the Congo
05 – Gabon
06 – Senegal
07 – South Africa
08 – Benin
09 – Morocco
10 – Cameroon
11 – Lesotho
12 – Rwanda
13 – Namibia

Today Afri music song contest is just a week old and we have overtaken all the pre milestones we have set ourselves. Thank you to everybody who is helping us.

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PROMO SINGLE – UKRAINE

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Usually the host country put extra effort in to give the press a nice promo single of their entry (Belgrade 2008, Finland 2007, Norway 2010, Sweden 2013, etc) but according to our knowledge Ukraine became the first host country not to hand out a promo item for their entry TIME. So of course ESC Covers got a promo single designed for the library and it is so beautiful – the cover it like 100 better than the song.

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AFRI MUSIC SONG CONTEST – MOROCCO ENTERS

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We think this is news many Eurovision fans have been waiting for. Just this morning, Afri music song contest got its first artist registration from MOROCCO – yes this country officially becomes the first to have taken part in the Eurovision song contest in 1980 with Samira Said and now has entered the Afri music song contest for African countries. Many fans love the song by Samira, so lets hope they will also like the song from Morocco for 2017.