2016 Eurovision Song Contest

10 acts confirmed in Germany

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10 acts have been announced to take part in the German selection, Unser Lied für Stockholm, to find their representative for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden.

The 10 acts and song titles are –

  • Avantasia – Mystery Of A Blood Red Rose
  • Alex Diehl – Nur ein Lied
  • Ella Endlich – Adrenalin
  • Gregorian – Masters Of Chant
  • Jamie-Lee Kriewitz – Ghost
  • Joco – Full Moon
  • Keøma – Protected
  • Laura Pinski – Under The Sun We Are One
  • Luxuslärm – Solange Liebe in mir wohnt
  • Woods of Birnam – Lift Me Up (From The Underground)

Eurovision veterans Ralph Siegel and John O’Flynn have composed the song for Laura Pinski.

The final will be held on 25 February.

Source: www.eurovision.tv

2016 Eurovision Song Contest

Nine acts announced in Austria…and one more to come via wildcard vote

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Austria have announced nine acts that will participate in the national final which will be held on 12 February. The nine confirmed acts are –

  • Bella Wagner
  • Elly
  • Farina Miss & Céline Roscheck
  • Lia Weller
  • LiZZA
  • Orry Jackson
  • Sankil Jones
  • Vincent Bueno
  • ZOË

ZOË was a popular finalist in the 2015 Wer singt für Österreich? with Quel Filou and had success with her album entitled Debut.

One more act will make it 10 in the final via a wildcard vote to be held on Facebook on 14 January. Anyone can vote on this so check the official ORF Facebook page on that date for details of how to vote https://www.facebook.com/ESCOesterreich/

The wildcard acts in contention are –

  • Laura Kamhuber
  • Ola Egbowon
  • AzRaH
  • Sara Koell
  • David Siedl feat. Madelene & McVio 

Source: www.eurovision.tv; www.esccovers.com

Serhat/2016 San Marino Eurovision Song Contest

San Marino select Serhat for Eurovision

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San Marino have today confirmed that Turkish born singer, Serhat, will represent them at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden in May. He was chosen internally by the broadcaster SMRTV.

Serhat has had success in the UK and German dance charts with his song Je M’adore and also had a hit in some European countries with Total Disguise, which was a duet with Viktor Lazlo (the 1987 Eurovision Song Contest presenter).

The song will be announced in February or March.

You can see Serhat’s video for his hit Je M’adore below.

Source: www.eurovision.tv

R O W BEST SONG

R OW’s FAVOURITE SONG – THE FINAL RESULT

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Written by Tamas Vamos of Hungary 
After 6 weeks and 3 round of voting, we have a winner! Now we can name a song as our all-time favourite in 2015. (The competition started in 2015.)
In the Nominations round, where we were looking for our TOP60, finally we had a drama after the last votes arrived! 5 nominations were enough for qualification, as our club’s members have so different taste of music. But there were 49 songs with 6 or more votes and 12 with 5. So it was a tie and one song was drawn to be eliminated: Unsubstantial blues (Hungary, 2007) was the unlucky entry. Two Swedish songs, Euphoria and Waterloo got the most votes, 26 for each.
In the second round, the 60 songs were in 6 group of ten.
In Group A, Grande Amore got the most (19) votes; Making Your Mind Up and Take Me to Your Heaven both were second with 15. The tie-breaking was based on the more nominations in the first round, so 1981’s winning song went to the Final. Sévérine’s song finished at the bottom with 3 votes, the 9th place belongs to New Tomorrow as they got 5.
Group B: Euphoria had 28 votes, while the second place song is Satellite with 14. The unlucky third was Gravity with 10 votes. La det swinge and Stronger Every Minute finished last with 5 votes for each.
Group C: Monster Like Me won this group with 16 votes, followed by Only Teardrops with 13. Hold Me Now and Calm After the Storm finished as third with 12-12 points. Cliff Richard’s Congratulations finished surprisingly last with only 4 votes, following 1979’s Hallelujah who got 7.
Group D: Rhythm Inside had the second best score in this round, winning its group with 20 votes. Diva became second with 15. The third was Shady Lady with 12. Lane moje and I Feed You My Love both finished last with 4 votes.
Group E: The winner of this group is Waterloo with 19 votes, the second is Rise Like a Phoenix (14). Quédate conmigo and Goodbye to Yesterday both got 12 votes so they became third. The oldest song in this whole round, Nel blu dipinto di blu became last with 4 votes. The second last were Love Shine a Light, This Is My Life and Alexander Rybak’s Fairytale – all of them got 7 votes. Fairytale got more nominations in the first round, but the rest two had the same amount. As there are more songs from the UK, the Icelandic one is ranked higher.
Group F: Undo won this group with 17 votes, followed by Gina G with 15. (Her song missed to win the group as finished behind Sanna, but not so much – just a little bit…) The third place is the best Hungarian entry in our competition: Kati Wolf got 13 votes. The last two are Euro-Vision with 3 votes and Molitva (who one the similar competition in Hungary) with 4.
In the FINAL:
There’s only one song who did not get any nil points: Rise Like a Phoenix!
The most zeros went to Ooh… Aah… Just a Little Bit.
All the songs in the TOP12 got at least one douze points from someone.If you want to feel some excitement, watch the video but not this table below which contains the amount of the points the songs got from the 53 voters.

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2016 Eurovision Song Contest

First show kicks off in Lithuanian selection

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Lithuania have started the road to Stockholm with the first of their Eurovision national selection shows. Eight acts performed and three were eliminated in the first week.

The acts and songs in the first show –

  1. Alice Way – Hero
  2. Dovydas Petrošius – Starlight
  3. Behind The Moon – Did It All
  4. Erica Jeniings – Leading Me Home
  5. Elena Jurgaitytė – I Won‘t Come Back
  6. Vlad Max – Don‘t Wanna Let It Go
  7. Petunija  – Tomorrow
  8. Donny Montell – I‘ve Been Waiting for This Night

An expert national and international jury voted in the first phase. The acts that were eliminated were –

  • Dovydas Petrošius,
  • Elena Jurgaitytė
  •  Vlad Max

The first show was won by Donny Montell, the Lithuanian Eurovision representative in 2012 in Baku where he sang Love Is Blind.

Source: www.eurovision.tv; www.esccovers.com

Sweden Songs publisher 2016

Sweden Songs publishing company have 10 songs in 2016 Eurovision selections

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The music publisher, Sweden Songs, have an impressive 10 songs in contention in various national selections for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. At this time they have songs in the running in Lithuania, Moldova, Belarus and Austria.

LITHUANIA
4 Roses Butterfly (Calle Kindbom/Dan Fernström/Viktor Brunö) (split publishing with Yellow)
Baiba Skurstenė-Serdiukė Mayday (Daniel Persson/Magnus Mikaelsson)
Neringa Šiaudikytė  Never Knew Love (Tina A Hilli/Daniel Persson)
Ruslanas Kirilkinas In My World (Niklas Bergvist)  Lithuanian version lyrics
Aistė Pilvelytė  You Can’t Leave Me Now (Niklas Bergvist)
MOLDOVA
Beatrice Saved My Heart For You (Nicklas Säwström/Christian Löwenborg Wahlström)
Rafaella Hours Lost (Johan Wåhlander/Hannu Hemmilä/Hugo Lundgren)
Mihai Radu  I Walk Through Fire (Patrik Öhlund/Madelene Hamberg)
AUSTRIA (wildcard competition)
Celina Ann Life Is On Your Side (Niklas Bergqvist/Magnus Almgren/Celina Ann/ Valentin Oman)
BELARUS
Shir My Mind On You (Fredrik Hult/Bahman Ghanbari/Ina Forsberg) Artist  (split publishing with Firefly)
In 2015 Sweden Songs had 11 songs in various Eurovision national selection. They have also published songs for Eurovision acts such as Conchita Wurst (2 songs on her album), Ryan Dolan (ESC 2013 Ireland), Gianluca Bezzina (ESC 2013 Malta) and Farid Mammadov (ESC 2013 Azerbaijan) and many others.
Keith Almgren was a publisher  with Scandinavian Songs for Melodifestivalen winners Charlotte Nilsson (ESC 1999 Sweden winner) and Roger Pontare (ESC 2000 Sweden).
Source: www.esccovers.com
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Interview: ManuElla (2016 EMA finalist Slovenia)

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ManuElla has made it to the final of the 2016 EMA Eurovision national selection for Slovenia to be held on 27 February. ManuElla talks to esccovers.com here –

1. Hello ManuElla. Congratulations on making it to the EMA 2016 final. How did it feel when you heard you had made it to the final?

Thank you for your kind words. When I heard for the results I was very happy, somehow fulfilled.

2. Are you able yet to tell us anything about your song? For example what style will it be, and what it is about?

Yes of course… I love pop-country music so the song is also written this way. The story is quite simple, “It’s all about love and the colours in it”…

3. You participated, and did very well, in the Slovenian Eurovision selection Misija Evrovizija? Can you tell us about your experience in that competition?

Misija Evrovizija gave me a lot of good memories, now these days for sure it’s easier for me to be more comfortable in front of TV cameras…

4. What have you been up to since Misija Evrovizija? Have you released any music?

I was participated at Slovenia’s greatest pop music festival “Slovenska popevka”, performing with a live orchestra, but after that I wasn’t able to continue my music career. I wanted to take care for my father who became seriously ill and, unfortunately, died recently.

5. Who are your musical influences?

I am open for all good music, but lately I prefer pop-country. I love Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, LeAnn Rimes, Reba McEntire and also a little of The Cranberries.

6. Have you participated in any music festivals either in Slovenia or abroad? If so can you tell us something about them?

As I mentioned before I was at “Slovenska popevka” in 2013 and recently I performed in Croatia at “RetrOpatijski festival”, among the greatest Croatian and Serbian artists, like Tereza Kesovija (1966 she represented Monaco and 1972 Yugoslavia at the Eurovision Song Contest), Novi Fosili (1987 they represented Yugoslavia at Eurovision) and others.

7. Do you watch the Eurovision Song Contest on tv, and do you have any favourite songs from over the years?

Yes of course, I’ve always been a big fan of ESC. When I was just a small girl I was standing in front of TV, had some sheets on me and I pretended I am there on the stage… (and I still do, ha ha ha). Songs that I remember specially are Fly On The Wings Of Love – Olsen Brothers (2001 ESC Denmark), Euphoria – Loreen (2012 ESC Sweden), Calm After The Storm – Common Linnets (2014 ESC The Netherlands), Take Me To Your Heaven – Charlotte Nilsson (1999 ESC Sweden), A Million Voices – Polina Gagarina (2015 ESC Russia) and many more.

Anyway, good luck ManuElla at the 2016 EMA. 

Thank you so much, I really appreciate your support!!!

Source: www.esccovers.com

Anja Veterova/Bez tebe

Watch Anja Veterova perform her song ‘Bez tebe’ at Skopje Fest

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Anja Veterova recently performed in the Skopje Fest in FYR Macedonia. She performed Bez tebe (Without you). Anja gave a polished and mature performance with a strong backing by the MTV orchestra conducted by Ljupco Mirkovski.

Bez tebe is composed by Darko Dimitrov (who has been involved in writing and production of some songs for Eurovision for FYR Macedonia and Albania) and Elena Risteska (who represented FYR Macedonia at the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest with Ninanajna).

Anja represented FYR Macedonia at the 2010 Junior Eurovision Song Contest with Eooo, Eooo. She is fastly maturing in to a top recording artist and performer.

You can see Anja perform Bez tebe below.

Source: www.esccovers.com

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