A few weeks ago, Rene covered the first song from the 2017 Eurovision season, a selection song from Romania. Andre van Wyngaardt has now covered the first actual entry for 2017 – ESTONIA 2017 – the song is VERONA by KOIT & LAURA. Andre calls his entry AS IN DIE VLAMME.
Right now it is just a promo single but he has plans to include it into his new album due out for later the year.
This is the second euro song Andre has covered, previously he did Sweden 2006, Invincible in Afrikaans.
In Kyiv, ESC covers will be represented by Ian Fowell, our chief editor as well as Roy van der Merwe, the website owner. Roy will, however, also cover the 2017 Eurovision song contest on behalf of the Greek language radio station in South Africa, RADIO HELLENIC and because of that, we are doing a competition involving the entries of Greece and Cyprus.
The competition is fairly easy. This is what you have to do:
1 – Pick Cyprus or Greece (the entry you like best of the two)
2 – Put a photo of yourself inside the flag of the country you picked (so Greece of Cyprus) OR
Put a photo of Hovig or Demy inside the flag OF YOUR country.
3 – Send this to us at roy@esccovers.com and we will publish it on the ESC COVERS website OR
put it yourself on the EUROVISION COVERAGE facebook
4 – By 30 APRIL a panel of judges will pick 1 or 2 winning entries and these people will win a gift package from Radio Hellenic and ESC Covers.
here is the video of our results for the vote 2017 in Costa Rica
https://vimeo.com/212509344
Thank you to Btico who did the coordinating.
The 22nd country has reported their voting – it is the Latin American country of CHILE.
Thanks to Veene, we have the voting from the Eurovision fans in the Philippines.
Sergey Lazarev, the Russian 2016 Eurovision singer with YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE is to give a show in Minsk, Belarus. Ian Fowell, our chief editor is currently in Minsk and saw this lovely poster.
Ian Fowell, chief editor of ESC Covers is currently in Minsk, Belarus and met up with GEORGE KOLDUN, the brother of Dima Koldun who sang for Belarus some years ago at Eurovision with WORK YOUR MAGIC. Victoria, a Belorussian journalist joined them.
Ilinca of Romania informed us that she is quite impressed with Brendan Murray, the singer who will represent Ireland in the 2017 Eurovision song contest. They got to know each other quite well during the last few days in Israel.
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Nicole from Germany releases a new CD on 14 April 2017.
It will feature Eurovision winners and sung mostly in German.
Here is the track listing
01 – Waterloo – Nicole
02 – Halt mich fest (Hold me now) – Nicole
03 – Geh die sen weg mit mir (Fly on the wings of love) – Nicole
04 – Hallelujah – Nicole
05 – Merci cheri – Nicole
06 – Extreme (Insieme) – Nicole
07 – Kusse von dir (Save your kisses for me) – Nicole
08 – Wast ist schon ein jahr (What’s another year) – Nicole
09 – Ding a dong – Nicole
10 – Dann kanst du (Apres toi) – Nicole
11 – Tausend tranen (Only teardrops) – Nicole
12 – Euphoria – Nicole
13 – Ein bisschien frieden – Nicole
14 – Fly on the wings of love – Nicole & Olsen brothers
15 – Insieme – Nicole & Hape Kerkeling
