All posts by Roy van der Merwe
SONG 21 – OGAE SECOND CHANCE 2017 – UKRAINE
EUROVISION COVER – ROCK BOTTOM (Finnish)
EUROVISION COVER – ROCK BOTTOM (Norwegian)
NEW SONG – ZELJKO JOKSIMOVIC
This is quite a departure for Zeljko from songs like LANE MOJE.
Milimetar is composed by Željko with Vjekoslava Huljić, who is the wife of Tonči Huljić (who sang for Croatia with Magazin in 1995 and composed Croatia’s Eurovision entries in 2001 and 2009).
EUROVISION 2017 – COVERS
It is just over 7 weeks since the final of Eurovision 2017 and there is a big interest from SOUTH AFRICAN artists to cover the songs from 2017. Eurovision South Africa is proud to announce that almost half of the 42 songs have been identified for covering.
Lets take a look at what songs are interesting enough for the SA artists to want to sing it in Afrikaans.
Albania – taken
Armenia – no interest
Australia – already finished
Austria – taken
Azerbaijan – no interest
Belarus – no interest
Belgium – 2 artists show interest
Bulgaria – taken
Croatia – taken
Cyprus – taken
Czech republic – no interest
Denmark – someone is thinking about it
Estonia – already finished and now there are more interest for a Zulu cover
Finland – taken
France – taken
Georgia – no interest
Germany – someone is thinking about it
Greece – taken
Hungary – no interest
Iceland – no interest
Ireland – no interest
Israel – taken
Italy -no interest
Latvia – no interest
Lithuania – no interest
Macedonia – no interest
Malta – being recorded at this moment
Moldova – no interest
Montenegro – no interest
Netherlands – taken
Norway – someone is thinking about it
Poland – taken
Portugal – taken
Romania – taken
San Marino – taken
Serbia – no interest
Slovenia – taken
Spain – no interest
Sweden – taken
Switzerland – no interest
Ukraine – someone is thinking about it
United Kingdom – taken
MakFest 2017
Sonja Bishop who has participated in the Finnish national competition to Eurovision 2004 (Should I run, should I hide (Sweden Songs) and 2011 (This is my life) and together with Amber in the Latvian national competition 2006 (with the song “Later”) will represent Finland at MakFest 2017.
From 5-7 October 2017 in F.Y.R Macedonia Sonja will compete with the song The land of my song, written by Swedish composers Staffan Stavert and Lars Johansson, published by Sweden Songs. They also have a song with the Swedish artist Emanuel Bagge (participant in Sweden Got Talent (Talang 2017), and he will compete with the song Then came you (written by Hans Olov Furberg).
CHRIS ROBERTS
The day started off with very sad news from Ralph Siegel informing us of the death of CHRIS ROBERTS. Although Chris has never been an entry at Eurovision for Germany, he was well known among many EURO fans who follow German schlager music and songs composed by Ralph Siegel. One of his biggest hits was DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH (of course sang in German and composed by Ralph Siegel). The song was also covered in Danish by one of their most known Eurovision composer KELD HEICK (with his group) and the title is also DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH. In South Africa the song was covered as well and the title DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH was speak although the lyrics are in Afrikaans, and sung in duet form by Carike Keuzenkamp and Johan Stemmet. Chris was at Eurovision as one of a group of 6 singers who represented Luxembourg in 1985 with the song CHILDREN, KINDER, ENFANTS which was also composed by Ralph Siegel
SONG 20 – OGAE SECOND CHANCE 2017 – SWEDEN
OGAE Sweden has won the second chance contest so often and they will not have to wait a million years to win it again – will it happen with this song?
SONG 19 – OGAE SECOND CHANCE 2017 – SPAIN
The Spanish fans were furious when Manel won their selection – they wanted Mirela, yet the club then picked this song to be their entry in the second chance contest. Is it a waste chance for a win?


