This year we celebrate 70 years of EUROVISION. ESC Covers will pick 70 Eurovision songs but we will not publish the original as those songs are well known. Instead we will pick a cover, in various languages and by various singers. There is no order, it is just as they come into our minds. One song per day will be posted. Continue reading CELEBRATING 70 YEARS OF EUROVISION – SONG 19
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CELEBRATING 8 GOLD MEDALS BY RUSSIA AT THE 2026 PARA WINTER OLYMPICS – SONG 7
RUSSIA got 8 gold medals at the 2026 Para Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina. They only had 6 individuals competing. To celebrate this feat, ESC Covers will highlight for 8 days Russian Eurovision entries and selection songs that are favourites from ESC Covers. Continue reading CELEBRATING 8 GOLD MEDALS BY RUSSIA AT THE 2026 PARA WINTER OLYMPICS – SONG 7
EUROVISION SONG VERSUS COVERS – MILLION VOICES RUSSIAN VERSION
In a current series, we will look for 30 days to a Eurovision song and two covers of that song to compare if maybe someone who covered it, did it better than the original.
The Eurovision song is MILLION VOICES, the 2015 Eurovision entry by POLINA GAGARINA for Russia. It was sung in English at the contest but using the Russian version. The first cover is by LEIZEL PIETERS MILJOENE DRUPPELS and is in Afrikaans while the second cover is by LITESOUND featuring ALEX KOLDUN and is in English.
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‘A Million Voices’ by the Intervision 2025 acts
As part of the grand finale of the Intervision 2025 song contest, all the acts performed A Million Voices by Polina Gagarina.
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Polina Gagarina, Igor Krutoy release top sound of ‘More’
Polina Gagarina, Igor Krutoy recently released the song More (The Sea). A very uplifting and fast paced track with stacks of energy.
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Polina Gagarina releases new song ‘Tanets pered zerkalom’
Polina Gagarina released the song Tanets pered zerkalom (Dance in front of the mirror).
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The Voice Kids Russia returned with a twist
A special season of the vocal project “The Voice Kids” has started in Russia.
Only the best participants from the past 10 seasons take part in this special season. Some of them participated in the Russian “The Voice Kids” 10 years ago, some seven years ago and some five years ago.
The jury includes Dima Bilan (Eurovision 2008 winner) and Polina Gagarina (Eurovision 2015 runner up). The host of the special season is Yana Churikova. She was a commentator for Russia at Eurovision 2009, 2013, 2015, 2018 and 2021.
During the first stage, the winner of The Voice Kids season #1 and the representative of Russia at Junior Eurovision 2014, Alisa Kozhikina, performed the song The Best by Tina Turner. Dima Bilan turned his chair and took Alisa into his team.
The judges, Dima Bilan, Pelageya, Polina Gagarina and Yegor Creed, Dima Bilan, Pelageya, Polina Gagarina and Yegor Creed performed a version of Waterloo by ABBA (1974 ESC Sweden winners). You can this here on VK. You can also see Alisa sing The Best here.
Source: Eliana Gonchareva; Photos@Channel One Russia
ALMOST REACHING THE TOP AT EUROVISION – 2015
Morten Thomassen talks today about the 2015 Eurovision song contest when Russia ended in second place behind Sweden. ESC Covers google translated it from Norwegian to English. Continue reading ALMOST REACHING THE TOP AT EUROVISION – 2015
Polina Gagarina & Dima Bilan team up for ‘Dushi’ duet
Polina Gagarina & Dima Bilan have got together for a new single called Dushi (Souls). It is an uptempo light dance track with a good beat and production.
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MILLENNIUM WINNER FOR RUSSIA
Norbert of ESC from Dublin to Amsterdam continued the new millennium voting and it was the turn of RUSSIA.