The BBC has revealed the six acts who will compete in the Eurovision: You Decide 2019 national selection. Only three songs but sung in two interpretations by two acts for each song.
The six acts and songs –
Anisa – Sweet Lies
Kerrie-Anne – Sweet Lies
Holly Tandy – Bigger Than Us
Michael Rice – Bigger Than Us
Jordan Rice – Freaks
MAID – Freaks
You can hear the song here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0070hvg
Source: bbc.co.uk/Eurovision; ESC Covers
Roy of ESC Covers started Eurovision in 1980. Tel Aviv 2019 will be 40 years since he is following it and so he will start looking back from 1980 at 2 entries each year that impressed him.
The first from 1980 is the entry of the United kingdom – LOVE ENOUGH FOR TWO by Prima donna.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZuR_DZqmfk
Goldstone have now officially released their song I Feel The Love that featured in the United Kingdom – Eurovision: You Decide 2018 national selection.
The track is available to buy or stream via digital sites such as Spotify and Amazon.
Take a listen again to I Feel The Love below.
Source: ESC Covers
The three member girl group, Goldstone, have had a big success in Kazakhstan where they have taken the first prize in The Voice of Astana competition.
Goldstone took part in the United Kingdom selection show Eurovision: You Decide 2018 with the song I Feel The Love.
Congratulations to the girls on their win in Kazakhstan and I am sure they will continue their success with more releases and concerts in the near future.
You can read more about Goldstone at goldstonelive.com and let us remind you of their great performance of I Feel The Love from the UK final and also a clip of them at the 2017 Amsterdam Pride below.
Source: facebook.com/goldstonelive; ESC Covers
SuRie will represent the United Kingdom at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. The official video for the song Storm has just been released.
Take a look at the video clip below and the final version of Storm for Eurovision.
Source: YouTube/Eurovision Song Contest; ESC Covers
A young singer from Romania who is currently based in the UK is Daria.
She is preparing for the Teenstar Talent Competition in England and you can see her perform It’s Oh So Quiet by Bjork below.
Source: ESC Covers
SuRie has won the 2018 Eurovision: You Decide national selection with Storm and will represent the United Kingdom at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon, Portugal in May.
The presenters of the show, held at the Brighton Dome where ABBA won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, were Mel Giedroyc and the 2015 Eurovision champion from Sweden, Måns Zelmerlöw.
Måns kicked off the show with the 2017 UK singer, Lucie Jones, and they performed a medley of ABBA hits.
Six songs competed in the selection –
RAYA – Crazy
Liam Tamne – Astronaut
Asanda – Legends
Jaz Ellington – You
SuRie – Storm
Goldstone – I Feel The Love
A combination of jury votes by eight music professionals and televoting confirmed Storm will fly the Union Jack in Lisbon. A panel consisting of Rylan Clark-Neal (tv presenter and singer), Rochelle Williams (singer formerly from The Saturdays and tv presenter) and Tom Fletcher (singer formerly of McFly and songwriter) gave their opinions after each performance.
Storm is composed by Nicole Blair, Gil Lewis & Sean Hargreaves.
You can see SuRie perform the winning song Storm below.
Source: ESC Covers
Asanda – Legends
Goldstone – I Feel The Love
Jaz Ellington – You
Liam Tamne – Astronaut
RAYA – Crazy
SuRie – Storm
You can listen to all the songs on the BBC website here http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/you-decide
The final of the 2018 Eurovision: You Decide national selection will take place on 7 February.
Source: Eurovision.tv; ESC Covers
Nicki French is back and ready for the festive season with a brand new album ‘A Very Nicki Christmas’ featuring 10 amazing and fun party tunes including new songs, covers and remixes.
The lead track is Very Christmas and in the official video clip Nicki is having fun in the studio as well as decorating the Christmas tree.
Here are the 10 tracks on the album which also includes the hit by Dana It’s Gonna Be A Cold Cold Christmas and also the evergreen classic Santa Claus Is Coming To Town.
The album is available to purchase via energiserecords.com and also via most digital outlets such as Amazon, etc.
Nicki represented United Kingdom at the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest with Don’t Play That Song Again.
You can see the official video for Very Christmas below.
Source: Energise Records; ESC Covers