When you think of Iceland in Eurovision, you immediately think of Selma, who represented her country with two promising and memorable entries. In 1999 her song “All out of Luck, a favorite for the win, reached the 2nd place. in 2005 Selma entered with “If I Had Your Love” and to everybody’s surprise did not make it to the final, …

Two of Europe’s Divas, the Icelandic Hera Bjork and the Maltese Chiara, combine their vocal talents in a new cover of Dolly Parton’s 1980 hit song “9 to 5”. The song was produced by Orlygur Smari and is released on a new Two Divas EP from Hands Up Music. Although Hera Bjork and Chiara have been friends for several years now …

ESC United talked to the acts that had their first rehearsals today. They will be performing in the first half of Semi Final 2 at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden. The Semi Final will take place exactly next Thursday so let’s get to know them a little better. Unfortunately we were unable to talk to Valentina from San …

Every year our “Expert” Panel comes together to judge all entries for the Eurovision Song Contest and they’re back to take apart the 2013 entries and rank them accordingly. While their characters and comments may be wacky, the scores are dead serious. All 13 panelists will comment on the song and rank them accordingly giving it points using a scale …

Hera Björk who represented Iceland at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo became one of the six finalist in the prestigious Viña del Mar International Song Contest. She is going to perform “Because You Can”. The biggest music festival in Latin American will take place February 24 to March 1. Some big names are scheduled to perfom including Elton …

  Congratulations to Eyþór  who is going to represent Iceland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmo, Sweden.   [vsw id=”riTHVd9-iCE” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]

Zach Kerr is a two Chief Editors of ESCUNITED. This review is an opinion and does not reflect the view of ESCUNITED.   by: Zack It is fitting that I am watching the Iceland National Selection this weekend as in North Carolina, we were hit with part of a winter storm.  Here, a small amount of snow and ice can …

Zach Kerr and Matt Friedrichs are two Chief Editors of ESCUNITED. This review are the opinions and do not reflect the view of ESCUNITED.     Zach: Despite following Eurovision since the 2003 edition in Riga, I have to admit that this is the first year that I’m actually familiarizing myself with the songs before they hit the Eurovision stage.  …