Roy van der Merwe of Eurovision South Africa and the ESC Covers website attended several Eurovision song contests in person at the host cities. He is writing down his memories of those Eurovisions he attended with accreditation. Continue reading EUROVISION MEMORIES 2007 – HELSINKI
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Arash feat. Helena release new single ‘Angels Lullaby’
Arash feat. Helena have released a new single called Angels Lullaby. It is a charming track in the ethnic pop style of Arash & Helena’s previous successful collaborations.
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Arash teams up with Nyusha, Pitbull and Blanco for FIFA World Cup football song
Arash, Nyusha, Pitbull, Blanco have all teamed up for a FIFA World Cup football song. It is entitled Goalie, Goalie.
The song is composed by Mohombi, Cederic Lorrain, Blanco “The Ear”, Armando Christian Perez, Alexandru Cotoi, Andrei Ropcea and Cezar Cazano. It is produced by Alexandru Cotoi and co-produced by Andrei Ropcea and Bennie Amey III.
Arash & AySel represented Azerbaijan at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest with the popular Always.
You can see the official video for Goalie, Goalie below.
Source: YouTube/Arash; ESC Covers
SaRaha is number 2 on the Swedish spotify charts
SaRaha, who’s real name is Sara, is competing in the Swedish Qualifiers for Eurovision – the biggest TV show in Sweden. She debuted her new single ”Kizunguzungu” on the show in February and charmed the Swedish audience who voted her on to the semi finals. When released her song went straight to top 40 on Spotify and peaked at #2 just a few days later. This week the single has reached the Gold certification and most of the biggest Swedish radio stations have added the track to their playlists. On Saturday SaRaha will be competing in the finals of the Swedish qualifiers for Eurovision and it will be decided if she’ll represent Sweden in Eurovision Song Contest 2016.
See her performing ”Kizunguzungu”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQgM_9LH1Oo
SaRaha originates from both Sweden and Tanzania, she has for the past five years become a known artist with her Afropop sound on the Tanzanian music scene. SaRaha was born 1983 in Vänersborg, Sweden but moved to Tanzania with her family when at the age of two. She spent a big part of her childhood there and when she turned 18 SaRaha moved to Zimbabwe and started to perform in various clubs and restaurants together with her band, consisting of Zimbabwean musicians.
In 2009 SaRaha revisited Tanzania and discovered the East African pop music scene, which has ever since remained her musical focus. Her artist name SaRaha is a mix between her name and Raha, which means joy in Swahili. Her big breakthrough in Tanzania came in 2011 when she released her first song ”Tanesco”. Since then she has released various singles and done many big performances such as the Kilimanjaro Music Awards and Miss Tanzania. SaRaha’s music began getting airtime on Swedish radio stations during 2014 and her song “Mbele Kiza” entered the Swedish pop chart ”Svensktoppen”. This year she’s competing in the Swedish Qualifiers for Eurovision – the biggest TV show in Sweden. One of the co-writers of ”Kizunguzungu” is the Swedish pop star Arash who represented Azerbajdzjan in Eurovision Song Contest 2009 where he ended up in third place with the song ”Always”. The single is also co-written and produced by Anderz Wrethov who has a hit list record with artists such as; Arash, Samir & Viktor, Basshunter and Medina.