On Saturday 25 July 2020 ESC COVERS will launch the COVER2COVER competition. In category one are 14 songs by South African artists that are covers of EUROVISION songs (actual entries or selection songs or Eurovision related because of the original artist who was an entry at Eurovision or by the composers who had written a Eurovision entry). We will list all 14 in the next days, the Afrikaans cover plus the original song.
The nineth song is JY IS DIE EEN by HI 5 plus the original song MY NUMBER ONE by HELENA PAPARIZOU.
This is a Eurovision entry. HELENA PAPARIZOU won the Eurovision song contest in 2005 for GREECE. It is as of today still their only victory. HI 5 covered it in Afrikaans along with at least 5 other Eurovision entries.
Chiara sang for Malta a 3rd time in 2009 at the Eurovision song contest with WHAT IF WE. Lee Scott (who was with the boy band Hi 5 that covered no less than 6 Eurovision songs) did this solo as VANDAG.
Great song from Denmark in position 42 – TWIST OF LOVE. There is an even better Afrikaans cover by HI 5 – but unfortunately it is nowhere to be found on Youtube. We have just added it thanks to Mike Howell who uploaded it on Youtube.
In position 44 is I DO by Fabrizio Faniello of Malta – their 2006 entry. There is also a great Afrikaans cover by boy band HI 5 called VERGEWE MY WEER, plus another great cover by TOBI JOOSTE – he calls his cover also I DO.
