Photo: Thomas Hanses (EBU) [AdSense-B]   Good afternoon, Tel Aviv. We are in the press center after taking the morning off to sleep off the late night at EuroClub and an early morning visit to the beach to kick off the very first full-length Dress Rehearsal of Semi-Final 1. Today, we will see the first run-through of the show, including …

[AdSense-B] The young Greek-Australian singer Leea Nanos wants to represent Greece in 2020, according to her Instagram page, and has launched a social media campaign to gain the attention of the Greek broadcaster. The 16 year old performer was one of the ten acts in this year’s Australia Decides with the uptempo pop track “Set Me Free”, but was not …

[AdSense-B] Yesterday, we asked #YOU to vote for which of the rehearsals impressed the most from day two, and the results are in! Greece was the winner in our poll, with 41% of the votes for Katerine Duska’s art pop performance of “Better Love”, joining Serbia from the first day. Second place in our poll went to the gravity-defying staging …

[AdSense-B] It’s Day Two and the excitement is only growing! Eurovision 2019’s journey continued with the first rehearsal of the second group of eight songs from the first semi final. Every day, escYOUnited, your favourite Eurovision site, will be bringing you a roundup of the day’s events to make sure #YOU don’t miss a thing! The eight countries performing today …

[AdSense-B] Day 2 of rehearsals of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest is complete.  We sat down to discuss our thoughts on the rehearsals we saw today, including which of the performances we rated highly, and which country needs to improve before the second round. #YOU can catch our review of the first day’s rehearsals below; In case #YOU missed it, …

[AdSense-B] The first major preview event of the Eurovision 2019 calendar gets underway this weekend, as the annual Eurovision in Concert is held in Amsterdam! No less than 28 participants in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 are getting ready to hit the stage of AFAS Live this Saturday for the 11th edition of Eurovision in Concert. They are; 🇦🇱 Jonida …

Greece’s Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi (ERT) today officially released their entry for Eurovision 2019 in Tel Aviv. Katerine Duska’s “Better Love” sure is a vision in pink, and is not too much of a departure from her usual indie pop style. You can watch the video below: https://youtu.be/Lc_b7SlK9js Duska, a dual national Greek-Canadian singer was born in Montréal, Canada, later moving to …

After last week’s song snippet and announcement of March 5, 2019 as the release date of the full video, the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation officially released the video for Tamta’s “Replay.” “Replay,” by the same team behind Eleni Foureira’s “Fuego” – including writer producer Alex Papaconstantinou and choreographer Sacha-Jean Baptiste, released the video at 8 p.m. CET. You can watch “Replay” …

[AdSense-B] The national broadcasters of Greece and Israel have confirmed their artists’ song titles for Tel Aviv. Greece’s internal selection of singer-songwriter Katerine Duska will see her perform “Better Love” in the second half of the first semi-final on 14th May, co-written between Duska and indie-pop performer Leon of Athens. The entry is set to be revealed on Thursday 7th …