Evi Protektor and Yuri Koshkin are from the band Dandelion Wine and have two entries in Dziesma 2013 both performed by Pienenu Vins: “The One” and “Better Than You.” We are lucky to have Evi and Yuri tell us a bit about their experience with preparing for Dziesma 2013. ESC UNITED: First off, congratulations of your success in Dziesma 2013. …
The Road to Malmo: Latvia; Interview with Ingars Vilums, composer of Dziesma 2013 entry “Give Me A Try”
Ingars Vilum is best known as the bassist from Brainstorm, who are best known to Eurovision fans for their 3rd Place Finish at Eurovision 2000 with “My Star.” This year, Ingars is competing as a composer with his Dziesma 2013 entry “Give Me A Try” by Ivo Grisnins Grislis. Ingars tells us more. ESC UNITED: First off, congratulations of your success …
The Road to Malmo: Latvia; Interview with Christof Straub, composer Dziesma 2013 entry “Higher and Higher”
Many of our Austria readers may recognize the name Christof Straub, who is from the duo Papermoon, who have released over nine albums and hit singles such as “Night After Night,” “Tell Me A Poem” and “Lucy’s Eyes.” Alongside running his website www.global-rockstar.com (a world wide online song contest), Christof is also a songwriter for one of the entries for Dziesma 2013, …
MESC 2013 from the perspective of Danne Attlerud, composer of Kevin Borg’s “Needing You”
From Zack: ESC United has been fortunate enough to have made connections with many songwriters over the years. Most of this is thanks to OGAE REST OF THE WORLD president ROY. We present a postfrom DANNE ATTLERUD, co-composer of the runner-up in this year’s Maltese National Selection, “Needing You,” by KEVIN BORG. ———————————————– From a composers view a National Selection …
The Road to Malmo: Latvia; Interview with Janis Polis, composer of Dziesma 2013 entry, “Never Let Me Go”
Dreams can come true. That is no exception with Janis Polis, who went from digital advertising professional to songwriter for one of the 24 semi-finalists for the Latvian National Selection, Dziesma 2013. His song “Never Let Me Go” will be performed by Olafs Bergmanis & The Random People. We are fortunate enough to have caught up with him for some …
OGAE Italy Preview Party in Turin on April 20, 2013 with Jacopo Massa from Litesound
From Zack: This posting comes to us from Cristina with OGAE Italy. —————————- Hello everybody,OGAE Italy is having its preview party in Turin, on April 20th 2013. Our Valentina Ruffinatto is taking care of the organization. The location is the Hotel La Darsena in Moncalieri (TO) http://www.ladarsena.net/ita/hotel.html . The program will start at about 2 pm on April 20th, and …
Ranking Game 2013 – Round 5 Results
Every week all songs selected either via NF or internal selection are up for a vote and our members give points to their favorite songs. At the end of the week the host will tally up the points and post the results. This is Week 5 and includes the Danish song selected last weekend. This week’s ranking: 1. DENMARK …
Euphoria for Thomas G:son
From Zack: At ESC UNITED, we want to put the focus back on the totality of the entries. That means we want to honor everyone involved, particularly the composers. After asking our readers for their thoughts on the composers that we should retrospectively cover, we got some great feedback and will be featuring some of them in the upcoming week. In …
Malta is sending Gianluca to Malmo
Malta has chosen their 2013 representative for the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo. It was a rather tight race between Kevin Borg and Gianluca Bezzina but in the end the latter won the race. Congratulations to Gianluca, we wish you the best of luck! [vsw id=”PJ65p8N-2yE” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]
ICELAND 2013: Eyþór Ingi Gunnlaugsson – Ég á líf
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”]