Recently we finished with our Top 100 which were compiled from the top 10’s of 103 people. Now for about 2 weeks, Roy of ESC Covers will do his top 20 of Eurovision songs he would have liked in the top 100 but they did not make it.
On a side note, a big thank you to Carolina of Peru who drew the beautiful Johannesburg Eurofriend, which we use as the featured image.
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For the entire month of February, ESC Covers will take every day a South African artist/group/duo on a virtual tour to Europe. We will visit 28 countries.
2021 Eurovision in review – 39 countries and songs.
Comments, reviews and video’s for all 39 songs competing at Eurovision 2021 in Rotterdam.
The acts that will participate in the 2021 Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (UMK) national selection in Finland have been announced by the broadcaster, YLE
A couple of familiar names are included in UMK 2021- Aksel (who was originally chosen to represent Finland at the 2020 Eurovision but could not as the competition was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic). Also, Laura (who represented Estonia at the 2017 Eurovision with Koit Toome and she was also part of Suntribe at Eurovision in 2005).
The finalists are –
The songs will be made available to listen to gradually via the streaming service, Spotify, from 14 January.
The final of UMK will take place on 20 February.
Source: ESC Covers
Saara Aalto x Baga Chipz have come together with a new song entitled When The Sun Goes Down. It is an upbeat, summer dance song with a strong production.
When The Sun Goes Down is composed by Charles Rivington, Frankie Connolly, George Tizzard, James Birt, Kalvin Ryder, Nadine Samuels, Rick Parkhouse and Saara Aalto.
Saara represented Finland at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest with Monsters.
Baga Chipz is a drag queen from United Kingdom especially known from RuPaul’s Drag Race UK.
You can hear When The Sun Comes Down below.
Source: ESC Covers
Anna Timgren is a talented singer/songwriter from Finland. She has been composing and collaborating with various songwriters and producers and having big success with K-Pop music in South Korea, which is the hottest genre of music right now.
Some of the acts she has had success with are Twice, Loona, IZ*ONE, Rocket Punch, Bvndit, Weki Meki and HyunA and many more.
IZ*ONE and Loona are currently riding high right at the top of the prestigious Gaon Charts.
Anna wrote a song with Alex Mullarkey for Živilė Gedvilaitė entitled Learn From Your Love at the Eurovizijos nacionalinė atranka 2019 national selection in Lithuania. She has also worked with Greig Watts at DWB Music Ltd, who has been involved in many Eurovision selections.
You can see the latest music video by Weki Meki with the song Dazzle Dazzle, which is one of Anna’s current songs she has been working on and having success. Take a listen to Get Loud from the Twice mini-album, ‘Feel Special’. You can also hear the song that was in the Lithuanian Eurovision selection in 2019 for Živilė Gedvilaitė.
Source: ESC Covers
Danica Muscat recently covered the Finland 2018 Eurovision song, Monsters, by Saara Aalto. Danica performed the song on the popular Maltese entertainment show, Arani Issa.
Danica is an established and respected singer and vocal coach in Malta. She has participated in the Malta Song For Europe national selection and had success in several festivals at home and abroad including Konkors Kanzunetta Indipendenza and the Rzeszów Carpathia Festival in Poland.
Danica was in Poland in 2019 as she is the vocal coach of the Malta participant at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, Eliana Gomez Blanco.
You can see Danica perform Monsters below.
Source: ESC Covers
Here are some highights from the first set of press conferences after the second set of rehearsals at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv.
ESC Covers presented DMol from Montenegro with a special musical note trophy.
Below you will see Cyprus, Montenegro, Finland, Poland, Slovenia
The Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2019 final took place with Darude performing three songs. It was decided that Look Away will be the song that Darude will perform for Finland at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv in May.
The three songs –
You can see Darude featuring Sebastian Rejman perform Look Away below.
Source: ESC Covers
Saara Aalto has released a brand new music video for her song Dance Like Nobody’s Watching. The track is lifted from her internationally successful album ‘Wild Wild Wonderland’.
Dance Like Nobody’s Watching is composed by Saara with David Sneddon and Tom Fuller.
Saara is currently competing in the popular UK tv show Dancing On Ice. Infact, her dance partner, Hamish Gaman, appears in the new video.
Watch Dance Like Nobody’s Watching below.
Source: ESC Covers; YouTube/Saara Aalto
