Tag Archives: 2015 Eurovision Song Contest

Unique cover version of ‘Heroes’ released by Dalita & Sergey Sysuev

17 April 2018 Ian Fowell 2 Comments

ESC Covers is proud to be involved with a brand new cover version of Heroes (the winning song of the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest by Måns Zelmerlöw for Sweden). This is a hot and unique duet version by Dalita & Sergey Sysuev.

Dalita sings the first verse in the Armenian language and Sysuev performs the second verse the Ukrainian language. Together Dalita and Sysuev sing the chorus in English. The Armenian lyrics are by Elita Harutunyan and the Ukrainian lyrics by Sergey Sysuev.

Dalita is a very popular and beautiful singer, actress, model and tv personality and represented Armenia at the 2011 Junior Eurovision Song Contest with Welcome To Armenia. She has had many hit songs and video clips such as Crazy Generation, Menak Chenq Menq, Depi Nor Mi Kyanq and Mam jan.

Sergey Sysuev is a talented and respected pop and r’n’b and dance singer and songwriter from Ukraine. He has had success with a variety of hit songs and videos such as Fire In My Soul, Every Single Part, Great Escape and Dark Side Of Your Heart.

Special thanks for this project to Roy van der Merwe, who has been involved in making it possible for many unique cover versions and duets since 1995 in South Africa and beyond. I am the author of this article, Ian Fowell, and I am personally very happy to be involved in the organisation of this beautiful venture. Ian met with Dalita and Sergey and realised the opportunity and ability of them to make a great duet. Thank you also for the wonderful production by Rick Wolff from South Africa.

ESC Covers is a unique website covering, not only, news items but also making exciting projects like this happen. Look out for more special Eurovision covers and collaborations in the near future.

You can listen to Heroes by Dalita & Sergey Sysuev below.

Inis Neziri

Check out Inis Neziri and her cover of ‘A Million Voices’

2 January 2018 Ian Fowell 1 Comment

Inis Neziri {copyright: facebook.com/inisneziri12}

Inis Neziri recently impressed many with her performance in the Festivali i Këngës 56 national selection in Albania. She performed the beautiful ballad Piedestal and finished in the top three.

Inis has covered the 2015 Russia Eurovision Song Contest by Polina Gagarina, A Million Voices. Again we hear a sample of the powerful and clear vocals of Inis.

You can see Inis perform A Million Voices below.

Source: ESC Covers

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Polina Gagarina returns with new single ‘Obezoruzhena’

9 October 2017 Ian Fowell 1 Comment

Polina Gagarina returns with a brand new song entitled Obezoruzhena. The song builds in to an upbeat pop song with a strong production and show cases Polina’s powerful and clear vocals.

Polina represented Russia at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest with A Million Voices in finished in second place.

You can hear Obezoruzhena below.

Source: Eliana Goncharova; ESC Covers

Justs/Message To You

Justs releases his new single – ‘Message To You’

31 March 2017 Ian Fowell Leave a comment

Justs - Message To You — Justs – Message To You

Justs has released his brand new single entitled Message To You. The song is upbeat with a soulful melody. It is just right for the warm spring days. The composition is by Justs himself and Mārtiņš Makreckis.

Justs represented Latvia at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest with the popular Heartbeat. The song finished in 15th place in Stockholm.

Justs gave a performance of his new song Message To You at the 2017 Supernova national selection and you can see it below. The song is available from most digital platforms including Amazon and Spotify.

Source: ESC Covers

2015 Eurovision Song Contest

Alex Larke – “Shine On” review

5 January 2017 Andy Mikheev 1 Comment

Alex Larke, the male half of Electro Velvet is back with a new single, which is exclusively guest reviewed for ESCCovers by Mike Duncan of ESCKAZ:

“Debut single, a new haircut and a video filmed in part in some sun kissed location in Greece. His little sister Anna has a cameo at the start of the video with a delightful little bundle who I think is Alex’s and Tamara’s little peanut….cute, very cute….

Anyway onto the music. Well first a confession, I am a sucker for big strings and old style retro electronic organ so was kinda hooked right from the start. Then up pops Alex, sporting aforementioned new hair do, filling the screen with his big muff and grabbing attention. Then he sings. At first I did a bit of a double take, who is this? Where is the deep crooner from Electro Velvet, who is this (almost) falsetto geezer giving it large into the camera?? Yep, it’s him. This is a completely different style from those that know Alex from Eurovision but I kinda like it. Like I said always a sucker for big strings and a organ or two thrown in…..

I am reminded of Ocean Colour Scene from back in the 90’s and Alex’s putting on the “I’m Noel Gallagher and you better believe it” act simply adds to the whole 90’s Britpop vibe. Like I said I’m a sucker for all that….just add some more drums and a guitar riff here and there and I’m back in 1996 trying to style out a Paul Weller look and not succeeding.

Alex has moved on from his Eurovision foray a few years back, I hope he continues in this vein, much more suited to his style and voice than the flippy-flappy EV single….just needs to add in some edgy drums please and keep doing this…..well done (7.5/10)”

Alex Larke releases his debut single, ‘Shine On’ of EP ‘Disposable Love’, on February 3rd 2017. Available from all good digital retailers and streaming sites like Amazon

Alex Larke represented the UK at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest, as part of Electro Velvet. More on his official site: larkemusic.com

Matt Muxu Mercieca/Pray

Matt Muxu Mercieca dedicates special song ‘Pray’ to his late father

7 July 2016 Ian Fowell Leave a comment

Matt Muxu Mercieca has dedicated a special song to his late father who passed away 10 years ago and it is also poignant to anyone who last someone special. The song is called Pray and features a lot of familiar Maltese singers with Muxu. He thanks Cyprian Cassar & Elton Zarb, who helped with the production, and also Rodney and Alexia from Three Wise Media for the filming and editing.

Some of the artists featured include Gaia Cauchi, Federica Falzon, Destiny Chukunyere, Amber, Maxine Pace, Christabelle, Deborah C, Franklin and other fine performers. Lots of these artists are familiar to the Malta Eurosong or Maltese Junior Eurovision singers.

Muxu is a singer/songwriter and has been involved in writing the winning Junior Eurovision songs for Gaia Cauchi (2013 – The Start) and Destiny (2015 – Not My Soul). He also wrote Warrior for Amber (2015 ESC Malta) and has written many songs for other singers.

You can the special video for Pray below.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/matt.m.mercieca; ESC Covers

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Daniel Kajmakoski/Samo za Ljubav

Daniel Kajmakoski releases new song – ‘Samo za Ljubav’

24 March 2016 Ian Fowell 1 Comment

Daniel Kajmakoski {copyright: LCF media production/creative agency, Belgrade - from official music video of 'Samo za Ljubav} — Daniel Kajmakoski {copyright: LCF media production/creative agency, Belgrade – from official music video of ‘Samo za Ljubav}

Daniel Kajmakoski has released his brand new single entitled Samo za Ljubav (Only for love). The song is performed in the Serbian language. It is composed by Aleksandra Milutinovic with arrangement and production by Darko Dimitrov. The translation and adaptation of Macedonian lyrics are by Ognen Nedelkovski.

Daniel represented FYR Macedonia at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest with Autumn Leaves.

You can see the official video for Samo za Ljubav below.

Source: www.oikotimes.com; www.esccovers.com

Amber/What They Say

Amber returns with her brand new single and video – ‘What They Say’

4 January 2016 Ian Fowell 1 Comment

Amber {copyright: www.amberofficial.com}

Amber represented Malta at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest with the anthemic Warrior. Now she has released her brand new single entitled What They Say. The track will be on her forthcoming album to be released in Europe and the USA later in 2016.

The song is composed by Matt ‘Muxu’ Mercieca and Elton Zarb, who were the team behind Warrior and also the great success of the two Maltese winning Junior Eurovision songs, from 2013 Gaia Cauchi with The Start and 2015 Destiny Chukunyere with Not My Soul as well as the highly respected 2014 JESC entry by Federica Falzon and Diamonds.

What We Say is an r’n’b/pop song that suits Amber’s soulful and bluesy vocals. The official video has also been released and you can see that below. The single is available to download from iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Google Pay and other online digital platforms.

Source: www.amberofficial.com; www.esccovers.com

Minus One/Cyprus

Cyprus go for rock in 2016 with Minus One

4 November 2015 Ian Fowell 2 Comments

The public broadcaster CyBC has announced that the rock band Minus One will represent Cyprus at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden. The band are very popular in Cyprus and actually took part in the Eurovision selection in 2015 with the song Shine.

The song will be composed by Eurovision veteran from Sweden Thomas G:son, who wrote the 2012 winning song by Loreen entitled Euphoria. It is expected Thomas will go back to his roots and compose a rock song for the competition.

Source: www.eurovision.tv

2015 Eurovision Song Contest, United Kingdom

Electro Velvet Performs at the UK’s Eurobash

31 October 2015 Cole Van Dais 1 Comment

At the UK’s annual Eurobash, one of the special guests this year was the UK duo, Electro Velvet. They actually performed their entry and took photos with fans.

When interviewed Bianca Nicholas explained her struggle this year. When she came back from Eurovision, she followed and read all the negative press they received. She fought back but over time she found that it actually has destroyed her confidence as a performer. She now worries whenever she performs and gets herself in a state that she can’t mentally break out of. She very rarely performs now so it was a real treat for her to perform for us. She said that true Eurovision fans have been her only redemption from the experience.

Alex Larke announced that he didn’t pay attention to any of the press when he got back from Vienna and he is actually getting ready to complete his next project. Alex has released a solo album with a fusion of different styles and will continue to grow from his experience. He said that he didn’t regret his decision in participating in Eurovision but just wished that the UK general public would get behind their chosen entry regardless if they like it or not.

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