From Zack: Roy is the president of OGAE REST OF THE WORLD. If you know Roy, you know that he is one of, if not THE biggest RALPH SIEGEL fan. So when we found out that RALPH SIEGEL would return to EUROVISION 2013 with SAN MARINO’s entry, Roy decided to take a look back at Ralph Siegel’s illustrious Eurovision …
The Road to Malmo: Hungary; Review of the A Dal 2013 Heat 1 Songs
As we are doing with LATVIA, we at ESC UNITED are featuring another OGAE REST OF THE WORLD country in our ROAD TO MALMO series: HUNGARY! To start things off, we are reviewing the ten songs of Heat 1 in A Dal 2013, the Hungarian National Selection. Six songs will progress to the semi-finals: three via televoting and three via …
Hannah going to Malmo for Slovenia
As previously announced by the Slovenian broadcaster RTVSLO, Slovenia would not hold a National Final due to major financial cuts and today they announced that Hannah Mancini will be flying the flag for Slovenia in Malmo. She may not be an unknown face to some ESC fans, in 2011 she took part in the National Final for her country as …
Despina Olympiou for Cyprus
The broadcaster announced that Despina Olympiou will fly the Flag for Cyprus in Malmo. The 37 year old singer was selected internally by CyBC and her song will be in Greek. This song will be truly a song from Cyprus as the singer as well as Andreas Giorgallis (music) and Zenon Zindilis (lyrics) are Cypriot citizens. Unfortunately we don’t have …
Finland has chosen all finalists
Last night the Semi Final/Wild card show took place in Finland and the juries & televoters picked four more songs that would move on the the Final Stage. Great Wide North, Last Panda, Elina Orkoneva, and Lucy Was Driving will once again perform on February 9th, 2013 when Finland picks their entry for Malmo. Four songs already directly qualified previously brining …
San Marino is sending Valentina Monetta AGAIN
Over the past few weeks, many different rumors have been floating around on the Internet on who would represent San Marino in 2013 but not too many thought San Marino would go for the same artist 2 years in a row. Fans may remember Valentina from last year when she represented this tiny nation with the “Social Network Song”. …
The Road to Malmo: Latvia; Interview with Peo Nylén (music publisher representing Dzisema 2013 and Melodifestivalen entries)
Peo Nylén is a music publisher for Scandinavian Songs AB. You may not know his name off-hand but he has been a part numerous Eurovision and National Selection songs in the past twenty years, including Ines “Once in a Lifetime,” Pirates of the Sea “Wolves of the Sea,” and Rollo and King “Never Ever Let You Go.” This year, Peo …
The Road to Malmo: Latvia; Interview with Filip Lindfors (composer of Dziesma 2013 entries “Upside Down” and “Phoenix Fly”)
As the Dziesma 2013, the National Selection for Latvia’s 2013 Eurovision entry, approaches, ESC UNITED’s Zack were fortunate enough to talk with Filip Lindfors, composer of not one, but TWO entries: “Upside Down” and “Phoenix Fly.” ESC UNITED: Hi Filip! Congratulations on your success in Dziesma 2013. “Upside Down” is one of my favorite songs from the bunch. How would …
Petra Mede – Your host for the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmo, Sweden
For the first tim3 in 18 years, only one person will host the Eurovision Song Contest and this morning, SVT introduced Petra Mede as the person with this distinct honor. Some may not be familiar with her so who exactly is she? Petra was born on March 7th, 1970 in Stockholm, Sweden and started her career as a comedian …
Three minute Eurovision songs? Too short or just right?
What is the “3 minute rule”? It means that no song in the Eurovision Song Contest can be longer than that. This rule was adopted in 1960 due to time constraints and to avoid extremely long entries such as Italy’s song from 1957 which was 5 minutes 9 seconds long. So for 53 years, this rule remains intact and …