Germany have internally selected Xavier Naidoo to represent them at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden. There will be a national final on 18 February where Xavier will perform six songs. Songwriters and producers have been invited to prepare their submissions now.
Xavier is an established soul and r’n’b performer in Germany. He has had many hits in his home country including the number one song Ich kenne nichts (das so schön ist wie du) in 2003. You can see the official video for that song below.
OGAE Rest of the world will send one inclusive vote to OGAE International to be published first on the OGAE website but because we have several individual countries inside R O W, we have allowed them to vote as a country as well and we will publish such votes if we receive a voting picture from such a country. We got the first such voting picture, from our members in COSTA RICA and here is how these members have voted.
It is GERMANY now and their 2009 entry MISS KISS KISS BANG, originally sung by ALEX SWINGS, OSCAR SINGS. The South African cover has an international connection with PATRICIA LEWIS doing it in duet with American celebrity DAVID HASSELHOFF. This is quite interesting as David had several number one hits in Austria.
We are staying with the theme of “peace”and move to GERMANY 1982 with the winner than year – EIN BISSCHEN FRIEDEN sung by 17 year old Nicole. There are tons of covers of this song in almost every language possible but in the end, we decided on the Afrikaans cover by GERRIE PRETORIUS.
The next song is a real classic in South African terms. The original song is FUR ALLE by WIND, GERMANY 1985. In Afrikaans it has been covered by various artists but the biggest hit was the version of ANDRE SCHWARTZ
