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STOPLIGHT ON SA ARTISTS – ZAKK STYLES

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Zakk Styles (Age 29), a guitarist, singer, tv presenter, song-writer, producer and audio engineer has been intimately involved in the South African music arena for over 16 years through his various musical projects and ventures. A classical Guitar trained student of the Berkley College of music he is currently fronting the hard rock band – Black Bone Nation as well as his latest indie/folk band – Arcadia. Staying involved in the advancement of emerging bands in South Africa he co-created the artist feature show – The Couch Sessions SA, where he also acts as presenter for the show.

His achievements are  Various TV show appearances (YoTV, SABC Shows) – Various radio appearances (Eden AM, The Dave Darren Show) – Classical Music Studies Graduate – Presenter/Writer/Producer/Owner for The Couch Sessions SA – Singer/Guitarist for the band – Black Bone Nation – Singer/Guitarist for the band – Arcadia – In studio with the band Black Bone Nation recording their first studio album – “For Pride & Glory” (Release – 2018) – In Studio with the band Arcadia recording their first single -“Going South” (Release – 2017) – Currently working on filming of Season 2 of The Couch Sessions SA (Release 2018) – Various live show performances across Gauteng – South Africa.

He will be doing his first Eurovision cover shortly and it is the 2017 entry from Cyprus called GRAVITY, originally sung by Hovig and composed by Thomas Gson.

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Country voting

COUNTRY VOTING – COMOROS

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We now have the results from the 20th country – it is the little island of COMOROS. Quite an interesting vote. Again as the system we use for the voting pictures does not supply Comoros, we use some photo’s.
12 points – France
10 points – Malta
8 points – Cyprus
7 points – Greece
6 points – Croatia
5 points – Russia
4 points – Ireland
3 points – Belgium
2 points – Spain
1 point – San Marino

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Running order

RUNNING ORDER – FIRST SEMI FINAL

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The running order of the First Semi-Final of the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest:

1. Sweden
2. Georgia
3. Australia
4. Albania
5. Belgium
6. Montenegro
7. Finland
8. Azerbaijan
9. Portugal
10. Greece
11. Poland
12. Moldova
13. Iceland
14. Czech Republic
15. Cyprus
16. Armenia
17. Slovenia
18. Latvia

Georgina Moakler

Georgina Moakler also enjoys success on 2016 DanSing Junior in Cyprus

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Georgina Moakler is another talented dancer and singer who enjoyed much success on the 2016 DanSing Junior tv competition held on Mega One Channel in Cyprus.

From 3 September 2016 to the grand final on 18 December 2016 she gave consistent and top dance routines.

Georgina was part of the amazing dance team on stage with George Michaelides for Cyprus at the 2016 Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Malta. Nikoletta Antoniou was another dancer with George who took part in the DanSing Junior show.

You can see some of Georgina’s dance performances on DanSing Junior below.

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Nikoletta Antoniou

Nikoletta Antoniou is having success on DanSing Junior in Cyprus

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Nikoletta Antoniou was part of the awesome dance team on stage with George Michaelides representing Cyprus at the 2016 Junior Eurovision Song Contest.  Now Nikoletta is having success in the DanSing Junior tv show in Cyprus on MegaOne tv channel

Originally Nikoletta auditioned in June of this year and won a Golden Ticket that put her straight through the live finals. Every week there is a live dance routine and is judged by three expert jury members. A combination of jury votes and public votes will determine the eventual winner. The final is to be held on 17 December and so far Nikoletta has showed her versatility by dancing Hip Hop, Lyrical, Acrobatic Jazz, Latin/Samba, Modern, Fossey and Tap. She is also in the spotlight such being on the cover of a popular magazine and been on radio and tv for interviews. Last week Nikoletta danced with George in the show where they did a routine from the Grease musical.

Nikoletta is also trying her hand at singing where she takes lessons at the Young Stars Theatre and Performing Arts school in Paphos in Cyprus.

You can see a couple of video clips of Nikoletta performing on DanSing below and details of how to vote for her, for those readers in Cyprus, are below also.

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George Michaelides

George Michaelides and the Cyprus team shine at Press Conference in Malta

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George Michaelides will represent Cyprus at the 2016 Junior Eurovision Song Contest on Sunday with Dance Floor. He gave a confident interview at the press conference at the MCC in Valletta, Malta. He even gave us an example of street dancing.

He is a talented singer and dancer and he loves judo in his spare time and supporting Arsenal football club.

He will be joined on stage by four talented girl dancers. Nicoletta, Emily, Georgina and Mia (George’s younger sister). They are all super dancers and they also like to sing. The girls attend the same performing arts school as George in Cyprus.

The choreographer and creative director is Gareth Walker who worked on the closing ceremony of the London Olympics and Paralympics in 2012. He has also worked with many world famous acts including Rihanna, Take That, Spice Girls, One Direction and Jessie J.

Source: ESC Covers