The 5th promo single in our series of 6 is from the 2017 ROMANIA. It is called YODEL IT and is sung by Ilinca & Alex Florea. This song was quite a surprise.
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AFRI MUSIC SONG CONTEST – postcard SOUTH AFRICA
A facebook page THE FANS OF EUROVISION created some wonderful postcards for the AFRI MUSIC SONG CONTEST. We are delighted with this and have started sharing some of them with you. Here is the second one – SOUTH AFRICA.
AFRI MUSIC SONG CONTEST – postcard Botswana
A facebook page THE FANS OF EUROVISION created some wonderful postcards for the AFRI MUSIC SONG CONTEST. We are delighted with this and will share some of them with you over the next days. Here is the first one – BOTSWANA
AFRIC MUSIC SONG CONTEST – SUZANNE RENTZKE
Next up in our series to introduce you to some of the Afrikaans artists who have registered to take part in the first Afri music song contest is SUZANNE RENTZKE. There is a full CD available by her on Itunes are it is called VIR JOU (for you) and you can write to Suzanne at info@suzannerentzke.co.za for more information. Suzanne has covered one Eurovision song in the past – ISRAEL 2002 – Light a candle by Sarit Hadad. Suzanne calls her Afrikaans cover LAAT JOU LIG SKYN (let you light shine).
MOLDOVA 2017 – HEY MAMMA – SUNSTROKE PROJECT
The 4th promo single in our series of 6 is from the 2017 Moldova entry HEY MAMMA by SUNSTROKE PROJECT. Euro fans, who were on the weekend’s cruise between Helsinki and Tallinn, would have seem them perform.
FRANCE 2017 – REQUIEM – ALMA
And now we move to the 3rd of the 6 in the series of promo singles – showing you the Kyiv one and the Johannesburg one. This time we looking at France and their 2017 entry REQUIEM by Alma.
AFRI MUSIC SONG CONTEST – ANDRE VAN WYNGAARDT
It is time to focus the attention to our third Afrikaans artist who had registered to take part in the first Afri music song contest. It is ANDRE VAN WYNGAARDT. Andre has recorded two CD’s, his first is SKADU’S VAN MY HART which features one Eurovision cover – Sweden 2006 – EWIGHEID. His second CD was launched a month or two ago and is called DIE ENGELE HAAL ASEM and again it features one Eurovision cover – Estonia 2017 – AS IN DIE VLAMME. Andre will surely enter the full compliment of 3 songs allowed and no doubt they will come from his new CD, our guess is two original songs and the Estonian cover.
AFRI MUSIC SONG CONTEST – MARLE FOURIE
The second Afrikaans artist we look at who have entered Afri music song contest is MARLE FOURIE. She has covered already several Eurovision songs in various combinations.
Under the name of CHRISMARCHE she covered
GREECE 2009 as Asemloos
CYPRUS 2012 as My fantasie
Then in duet with GERT KITAAR se covered the 2015 song of the Czech republic as Hart se snaar
Currently she is part of a duo called SONSKYN and they have done in Afrikaans
Czech republic 2015 – Hart se snaar
Hungary 2015 – Oorloe verniet
Norway 2015 – Ek moet jou nou laat gaan
Sonskyn also covered two Euro songs in English
Estonia 2015 – Goodbye to yesterday
Poland 2015 – Between you and me (new English lyrics)
Marle is currently working on Austrlia 2016 Sound of silence and this will surely be one of the songs she will enter into Afri music song contest
AFRI MUSIC SONG CONTEST – COLE VAN DAIS
We have decided to give some promotion to the Afrikaans artists who have registered to take part in the first Afric music song contest. We will try and highlight each and every artist who have already registered. We will do it at random and first up is COLE VAN DAIS. Besides registering as a solo artist, she is registered in duets with several artists as well as part of a trio. Cole has covered many Eurovision songs already.
As solo artist she has done
Azerbaijan 2012 as Wanneer die musiek verdwyn
Cyprus 1987 as Die eiland
Denmark 2007 as Glans prinses
Denmark 2013 as Waar in die wereld is jy (which features a part in Danish)
France 1987 as Leef in my hart
Georgia 2008 as Vrede sal kom
Iceland 1987 as Dink aan my
Romania 2009 as Suid-Afrikaanse meisies
San Marino 2013 as Drome van my hart
As one member of a duo
with Katrina (of the waves) Love shine a light – UK 1997
with Joran Steinhauer (of Aarzemnieki) Dinge dong (part in Latvian) – 1975
with Organ Prawang (of Thailand) Dear friend – Croatia 1995 (partly in Thai)
with Marc Rantseli Peace will come – Georgia 2008 (a duet in 4 languages – Afrikaans, English, Zulu and Spanish)
with Emmanuel Castis Ek’s so lief vir jou – UK 2016
with Sergey Sysuev (of Ukraine) Spirit of the night – San Marino 2017 (part in Russian)
with Righardt Greyling Kom saam met my – Latvia 2004
as DUO AFRICA (with a singer from Nigeria) – Moleyho – Belarus 2013 (part in a local language of Nigeria)
as CHESS GIRLS – Op die dansvloer – Germany 2013 (Afrikaans, German and Tsonga)
Lastly as part of AFRICA SENSATION TRIO – City lights – Belgium 2017 (part of the song in Xhosa)
We wish Cole a lot of luck in Afri music song contest and cannot wait to hear all the entries.
SWEDEN 2017 – I CAN’T GO ON – ROBIN BENGTSSON
The second post of 6 over 2017 promo singles – comparing those obtained in Kyiv to those designed in Johannesburg. Here is SWEDEN and their song I CAN’T GO ON by Robin Bengtsson.
