It’s the time of year when all of the artists get the chance to flex their vocal chords and perform to hordes of eager fans as the preview parties begin across Europe! Traditionally Amsterdam and London were the only shows but the phenomenon is picking up in Eastern Europe and tonight sees Riga playing host to some of this year’s …

The rumours have been confirmed: Elnur Hüseynov will represent Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest. He’s not an unknown face to Eurovision fans – together with Samir he was the first ever Azerbaijani representative at the contest. Elnur’s entry is called Hour of the Wolf You can listen to the song here! Hour of the Wolf was written by Nicolas …

Fans of Azerbaijan’s debut entry rejoice – it seems likely that Elnur Huseynov, the angel in Azerbaijan’s 2008 entry, will be representing his country once more in Vienna, according to one of the main Eurovision fan clubs in the country. Born in Turkmenistan, the singer previously took part in Azerbaijan’s first year in the competition with Samir Javadzadeh performing “Day …

Today ITV, the national broadcaster of Azerbaijan has announced that they have opted for an internal selection to decide their representative for the 60th Eurovision Song Contest, which will be held in Vienna in May. The broadcaster have announced that they will announce the act and song before the 15th of March. Citizens of Azerbaijan are being given the option to …

Drama! Azerbaijani brodcaster criticising Armenia’s act! Armenia announced a couple of days ago that the newly formed project Genealogy woul fly the Armenian flag in Vienna this year. The title of their song is “Don’t Deny”, neither the actual song nor the lyrics have been made available as of today. ITV, the Azerbaijani Broadcaster has already criticized the choice. To …

The EBU has confirmed that 39 countries will be represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2015, hosted between 19-23 May in Vienna, Austria. The number is two up on last year, representing the first increase in participation since Germany’s hosting in 2011. Amongst the participants is a surprising return from Czech Republic, who will take part for the first time …

Despite achieving the worst Azeri result in the country’s history in 2014, the national broadcaster of Azerbaijan, ITV, has confirmed that the Caucasian country will be present in 2015 and as a result becomes the final member of the Caucasus to confirm participation. Azerbaijan has taken part in Eurovision every year since their debut in 2008 and finished in the …

We caught up with Dilara Kazimova from Azerbaijan after her first rehearsal. We talked about several things including her song, traditional Azerbaijani instruments and her other passions such as painting and acting.   [vsw id=”-aBio_2eBG8″ source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]

Dilara Kazimova won the Azerbaijani National Final a few weeks ago but unlike most selections they only chose the act with the actual song being an internal choice. The broadcaster basically took its time to come up with something they felt was a worthy choice and today “Start A Fire” was made available on eurovision.tv. You can listen to the …

Dilara Kazimova has become the Azeri representative in tonight’s Böyük Səhnə Eurovision selection, winning an expert jury vote with 136 points in total. Dilara is not an unknown name to Eurovision, as she has already reached the final of the national selection twice, in 2008 and 2010 as parts of groups Unformal and Milk&Kisses respectively. This, however, will be the …