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Family four

FAMILY FOUR FOUNDER DIED

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Family Four-founder Berndt Öst died.

Berndt Öst died on 10 July after a long illness, the family has notified TT news agency.

The musician Berndt Öst (far right) is best known as the founder of the successful pop group Family Four in 1964 – and together they won the Swedish Melodifestivalen both in 1971 (“Vita vidder”) and 1972 (“Härliga sommardag”). They finished 6th and 13th place in the Eurovision final.

Along with his siblings Inger, Siw and Stig Berndt has started the band which has debuted in Hylands hörna. The group worked in different configurations, and had a successful career at home up to 1989.

Berndt Öst will be buried in Catherine Church on August 8th. He was 86 years old.

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Claudia Faniello/Breathlessly

SURPRISE FOR CLAUDIA FANIELLO at the BERLIN weekend

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Eurovision South Africa and ESCCovers made it possible that an Afrikaans cover of Breathlessly was recorded by JOLANDA BECKER and sent to Germany in time to play to Claudia Faniello during the Berlin weekend.

We got a report today from Germany by Manfred , the producer of the original Eurovision entry of Malta and owner of CAP records.

I am back home after a fantastic Berlin weekend and they did the surprise yesterday at the Sunday Club Brunch during the Interview talk and it was perfect. Claudia really loved the Afrikaans version of her song Brearthlessly and was really touched and close to tears..

JP from Radio International recorded a video and will send it to Manfred who in turn will make it available to ESCCOvers and JP will play the song too in one of his next radio shows.

The Afrikaans cover is called ASEMLOOS (so the same title as the original). The song will be available to buy on Itunes and we will soon make a link available.

Here is the cover of the Afrikaans version

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Teaser

TEASER – MARLI LE GRANGE – JODEL DIT

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We move onto our second Eurovision cover – this time it is the song Yodel it, the 2017 entry from Romania. In Afrikaans it is called JODEL DIT (direct translation) and it is my MARLI who decided to tackle both the yodel part and the rap part. It really sounds exotic in Afrikaans. Thanks to Jolanda who made the 30 seconds teaser.

https://soundcloud.com/jolanda-becker/marli-yodel-teaser…