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Today we are highlighting the 18th Eurovision star doing a cover of a NON EUROVISION song.
GARRY HAGGER, stage name of Gert Vanderhaeghe, was born in Tielrode on 29 April 1963. He is a Flemish singer.
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 twelfth song is DAAR IS NIKS SOOS WARE LIEFDE by GROEP 2 plus the original singer UDO JURGENS of Austria also doing it in Afrikaans. His original German song WAHRE LIEBE IST GANZ LEISE is not on Youtube,
This is not an actual Eurovision entry. It was however composed by UDO JURGENS who participated no less than 3 times in the 60’s for Austria at the Eurovision song contest. This third time, in 1966 he actually won the contest with MERCI CHERI.
The 1966 Eurovision winner MERCI CHERIE by Udo Jurgens from Austria was covered by Nicole from Germany – unfortunately also in German. Nicole won Eurovision for Germany in 1982……
The 1966 Eurovision winner MERCI CHERIE by Udo Jurgens from Austria was covered by Helene Fischer from Germany – unfortunately also in German
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdGSTCECKec
Four ESC winners will be present at the Eurovision Song Contest – Unser Song 2017 on 9 February in Cologne.
Lena, who is one of jury members, will be joined by NICOLE, Ruslana Lyzhychko and Conchita Wurst. The three singers will perform a Medley of Eurovision winning songs, but not their own. Ruslana will sing Euphoria of Loreen, Conchita will sing Satellite of Lena and Nicole – “Merci Chérie” of Udo Jürgens.
Nicole won in 1982 with Ein bisschien frieden
Ruslana won in 2004 with Wild dances
Lena won in 2010 with Satellite
Conchita won in 2014 with Rise like a phoenix
On Manie Jacks0n’s gospel CD is one special track
LEEF VIR HOM (Live for him)
It is the Afrikaans cover of a big Bles Bridges English hit, FIGHT FOR LOVE but originally a hit for UDO JURGENS, the composer in German.
This cover was done for Udo but he passed away tragically before we would give it to him. But hopefully all UDO fans will enjoy the song.
