2023 was the year of the most recent change in the Eurovision Song Contest voting system. With televoting gaining prominence and being the only thing responsible for selecting the finalists, a question arises: what impact would this change have since the introduction of semi-finals, back to 2004? Let’s find out! 2004 – 2007: With the increasing number of participating countries …
Tuomas Holopainen and Johanna Kurkela, the royal couple of the Finnish rock and metal scenes, have dropped the first single from their joint progressive folk band Auri’s second album. Auri, which features Nightwish’s main composer and keyboardist Holopainen and multi-instrumentalist Troy Donockley, as well as folk singer and Holopainen’s wife Kurkela, has been a successful progressive folk group since their …
Roger Cicero, the German swing performer who became famous for his performance in Eurovision 2007, died earlier this week as a result of a stroke. He was 45. The performer, who was half-Romanian as the son of pianist Eugen Cicero, saw a rise to fame by being chosen to represent Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki with …
Eurofans first met Aleksa Jelić in 2007 when he participated at Serbian national selection Beovizija. He also participated in national finals in 2008 and 2015 endind as runner up. Aleksa also participated in Dancing with the stars and Your face sounds familiar and as he says he would like to take part in another show, but music and dance must …
Eurovision has seen some huge Balkan stars. Among them are Dino Merlin and Karolina Gočeva, who both represented Bosnia & Herzegovina and FYR Macedonia twice. Four years ago Dino held three concerts in a row in fully packed Belgrade Arena with more than 20.000 people every night. He is back now and Dino will have two concerts this time. The …
The famous Ukrainian drag Queen Verka Serduchka was interviewed by DigitalJournal discussing her cameo in the Movie “Spy”, the new EP as well as her participation at the Eurovision Song contest 2007 in Helsinki, Finland. Verka appeared in “Spy” alongside Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham and Jude Law. “When we agreed to participate in the movie it was like that: I knew nothing …
