In just four days first members of our team will start landing in Stockholm. The excitement is rising, so lets calm down a bit and see what has been going on in past few days. Croatian delegation was introduced on a press conference today. Nina will be followed by four back vocalist. They are Andrej Babić, who composed six Eurovision …
Slovenia: Interview with ManuElla
This is the third year in row that Slovenia has used their well known format EMA and less than a month ago ManuElla won the right to represent the country with the song Blue and red. We managed to take to do an interview with her even with her Eurovision plans being in full swing. Hello ManuElla, first of all congrats for your win …
Slovenia: ManuElla is going to Stockholm!
Anja Baš, Žan Serčič, Anja Kotar, San Di Ego Band, D BASE, REGINA, ManuElla, Raiven, Nuša Derenda and Sebastijan Lukovnjak are the ten hopefuls from Slovenian preselection for this years Eurovision. After they perform, a three member jury will vote for every song with points 1 to 5. When its all summed up, two will proceed to super final where televote will …
Slovenia: Listen to Snippets of EMA 2016 Songs
The Slovenian national final will take place on the 27th of February, where ten acts will take to the stage in hope of representing Slovenia in Stockholm in May. The ten acts and songs: Anja Baš – What If Anja Kotar – Too Cool D Base – Spet Živ ManuElla – Blue And Red Nuša Derenda – Tip Top Raiven – Črno Bel …
Slovenia: Song Titles and Writers Announced
We previously announced the 10 acts who will take part in EMA 2016, today, RTVSLO ahve revealed the song titles and their writers. The winning song will be selected on the 27th of February. The competing acts, songs, and writers: Anja Baš – What If (music- Anja Baš; lyrics – Anja Baš; arrangement – Franci Zabukovec, Anja Baš) Anja Kotar …
Slovenia: Interview with Nuša Derenda
Fifteen years ago Eurovision was held in Copenhagen, her song was Energy and she finished seventh, what is to date Slovenia’s best result. Yes, you guessed it, we’re talking about Nuša Derenda. Since then, she tried to come back to Eurovision several times competing at EMA, but unfortunately she failed to do so. Today we are bringing you interview with her. Nuša, this will …
Slovenia: Interview with Regina
Today we are bringing you another interview. This time it’s with Regina, who will participate in the Slovenian national final, EMA, to be held on Super Saturday 27th of February. Hello Regina. After 11 years you are back in EMA. How do you feel about it? Hello to you too, and to all of your followers. I have to say …
Come Together: Country Flags available for download
The Swedish broadcaster SVT recently presented the theme art for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest yesterday. We at ESC United understand how exciting it is to support your country (or your favorite song) so just as we did last year, we created Logo Flags for most European countries including all possible participants. And if you’re like me and live outside …
Know-It-Alls: Is it Nicky Byrne of Ireland and more details on Slovenia and San Marino
Every Sunday at 19:00 CET, the ESC United Know-It-Alls are discussing the latest and greatest news, developments and general Eurovision related info. Today’s panel includes Matt (ESC United Editor-in-Chief), Stefan ( ESC United Editor),Jake (ESC United Editor) and Sadie (ESC United Editor). In this week’s live Hangout we discussed the following topics: – Nicky Byrne (Westlife) for Ireland?!? – First …
Meet the participants of EMA 2016
On press conference in Ljubljana, the 10 names that will participate at upcoming Slovenian national final were just revealed. As it was announced last year, there will be a new festival like event, that will spread through February and among the events, EMA will be held. So on the 13th it will be Pop-Rock night, on the 20th Slovenian folk …