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All posts by Roy van der Merwe
EUROVISION 60th CELEBRATION – SONG 30 of 60
We are finally half way and it is time for ICELAND again. It is their 2008 entry THIS IS MY LIFE from EUROBAND. The Afrikaans cover is by Jasmyn and Ricky Faber.
EUROVISION 60th CELEBRATION – SONG 29 of 60
How can we forget the 2013 HUNGARIAN song, KEDVESEM by ByeAlex. The Afrikaans cover is by Bye-Coenie.
ANDRA CHANCEN 2015
Fred, our journalist and Liam, his camera man are both SWEDEN to report for
ESC COVERS and ESC UNITED (in a joint effort) on what is happening in the 4 duels.
Hope you all have a great time
GOOD LUCK MESSAGE – ESTONIA 2015
Here is the beautiful message for ESTONIA, GOODBYE TO YESTERDAY
EUROVISION 60th CELEBRATION – song 28 of 60
We are staying with the theme of “peace”and move to GERMANY 1982 with the winner than year – EIN BISSCHEN FRIEDEN sung by 17 year old Nicole. There are tons of covers of this song in almost every language possible but in the end, we decided on the Afrikaans cover by GERRIE PRETORIUS.
EUROVISION 60th CELEBRATION – SONG 27 of 60
With some much tension in the world and wars, lets now go to the 2008 song of GEORGIA, PEACE WILL COME sung by Diana Gurtskaya. The cover on the celebration compilation will be by COLE AND DAIS in duet with MARC RANTSELI and it is in 4 languages – Afrikaans, English, Spanish and Zulu.
IT’S MARIA FOR GREECE
Last night, the Greek broadcaster Nerit, held the 2015 EuroSong final to choose the Greek entry for Vienna. After an hour of performances by past Greek Eurovision entries, including the 2005 winner Helena Paparizou reprising her entry My Number One, 5 contestants took to the stage.
After a round of televoting, the winner was revealed as Maria Helena Kyriakou with her entry One Last Breath and will be performing in the first half of the first Semi-Final.
Good luck Greece!
GOOD LUCK MESSAGE – FINLAND 2015 (Tamás’)
Tamás Vámos from Hungary has prepared one of the two the Good Luck Messages for Finland.
EUROVISION 60th CELEBRATION – SONG 26 of 60
Time for an old favourite now, the 1976 entry from FRANCE – UN, DEUZ, TROIS originally sung by Catherine Ferry. In South Africa the song was both covered in English and Afrikaans. We are using the Afrikaans cover by GLENYS LYNNE.
