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EUROVISION MEMORIES 2009 – MOSCOW

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 2009 – MOSCOW

BEST OTHER LANGUAGE COVER OF A DANISH EUROVISION SONG – CANDIDATE 2

Eurovision South Africa has started with the candidates in the AFRI  FRIEND AWARDS, it is the first country – DENMARK, the third  category – OTHER LANGUAGE COVERS – and the second candidate WEER GELOVEN by Dutch singer JEROEN VAN DER BOOM who was a member of DE TOPPERS who participated in 2009 for the Netherlands. Continue reading BEST OTHER LANGUAGE COVER OF A DANISH EUROVISION SONG – CANDIDATE 2

NETHERLANDS 1984 – more covers

The 1984 Dutch entry to Eurovision, IK HOU VAN JOU by Maribelle only finished 13th that year but the song turned out to be one of Eurovision’s classics. It started 10 years after its début at Eurovision when Dana Winner from Belgium covered it and it sold 100 000 copies in South Africe. Since then, many SA singers have covered “this Dana” song. Here we have a cover by GORDON, who later entered Eurovision as part of DE TOPPERS, singing in 2009 for the Netherlands.

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