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Finland 2015

FINLAND FINAL 28 FEBRUARY 2015

28 February 2015 Roy van der Merwe 2 Comments

FINLAND 2015
28 FebruaryParticipants
1-Norlan “El Misionario” – No voy a llorar por ti
2-Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät – Aina mun pitää
3-Satin Circus – Crossroads
4-Shava – Ostarilla
5-Opera Skaala – Heart of light
6-Jouni Aslak – Lions and lambs
7-Solju – Hold your colours
8-Järjestyshäiriö – Särkyneiden sydänten kulmilla
9-Angelo De Nile – All for victory

2015 Eurovision Song Contest

HUNGARY FINAL 28 FEBRUARY 2015

28 February 2015 Roy van der Merwe 2 Comments

HUNGARY 2015
28 FebruaryParticipants
1-Ádám Szabó – Give me your love
2-Boglárka “Boggie” Csemer – Wars for nothing
3-Zoltán Mujahid – Beside you
4-Spoon – Keep marching on
5-Ív – Fire
6-Kati Wolf – Ne engedj el!
7Passed – Mesmerize
8-Bálint Gájer – That’s how it goes

Covers, Eurovision news from South Africa

DANA WINNER – COVER QUEEN TOURING SOUTH AFRICA

27 February 2015 Roy van der Merwe Leave a comment

Dana Winner from Belgium is probably the cover queen – she has done more covers of EURO songs than any other female singer. She is in South Africa to promote her new CD and will also tour in April. Her new CD contains at least one song in Afrikaans.

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SWEDEN SONGS IN NATIONAL SELECTIONS

27 February 2015 Roy van der Merwe 1 Comment

Sweden Songs have 3 songs to final in Moldova ESC 2015 O Melodie Pentru EuropaI´m gonna get you (written by Gicu Gimbir, Keith Almgren, Madelene Hamberg, Patrik Öhlund, Erik Anjou)
with Irina Kitoroaga went last week on from the semi-final 1 to finalLove me (written by Patrik Öhlund, Madelene Hamberg) with artist Dana Markitan went on with the seven
qualifed acts from semi final 2 (tonight read last night)and Fire (written by Calle Kindbom, David Wilhelmson, Philip E Morris Åkerblad) with artist Julia Sandu was
selected by the public votes in as the eighth song act from semifinal 2

Sweden Songs have / had11 (!) songs in this years national competitions to ESC 2015

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Blast from the past, Celebrating 60 years of Eurovision, Compilation CD, Covers

EUROVISION 60th CELEBRATION – SONG 20 of 60

26 February 2015 Roy van der Merwe 1 Comment

This is the last song on CD 1, song 20. It is the UNITED KINGDOM and there song OOH AAH … JUST A LITTLE BIT originally sung by GINA G.Gospel trio BACK2BASICS covered it in Afrikaans.

Blast from the past, Celebrating 60 years of Eurovision, Compilation CD, Covers

EUROVISION 60th CELEBRATION – SONG 19 of 60

26 February 2015 Roy van der Merwe 1 Comment

Its time for SWEDEN, one of the countries in Eurovision. It is also one of those with many covers in Afrikaans and so it is not so easy to pick something. In the end I decided on the 2001 entry LISTEN TO YOUR HEARTBEAT sung by FRIENDS. There are more than one Afrikaans cover and in the end, KOBUS MULLER in duet with PATRICIA LEWIS, was chosen.

Blast from the past, Celebrating 60 years of Eurovision, Compilation CD

EUROVISION 60th CELEBRATION – SONG 18 of 60

26 February 2015 Roy van der Merwe 1 Comment

It is time for a classic and what better than ERES TU, the 1973 entry from SPAIN, originally sung by MOCEDADES. We are using the Afrikaans cover of RINA HUGO.

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EUROVISION 60th CELEBRATION – SONG 17 of 60

25 February 2015 Roy van der Merwe 1 Comment

Now it is the turn of RUSSIA. We are using their 2013 song WHAT IF sung by DINA GARIPOVA and in Afrikaans is it being covered by JASMYN who has over 10 euro covers under her belt.