After a week of rehearsals, technical snafus, and building anticipation, Eurovision kicked off tonight at the Pala Alpitour arena in Turin! In all, 17 acts performed, competing for 10 slots in Saturday’s Grand Final. They were: 🇦🇱 ALBANIA – Ronela Hajati – Sekret 🇱🇻 LATVIA – Citi Zēni – Eat Your Salad 🇱🇹 LITHUANIA – Monika Liu – Sentimentai 🇨🇭 SWITZERLAND – Marius Bear – Boys Do Cry …
Well, we made it! It’s finally here! The Eurovision Song Contest 2022 officially gets underway from the PalaOlimpico in Santa Rita, Turin, following Måneskin’s triumph in last year’s contest in Rotterdam. Tonight marks the first semi-final of the contest, with seventeen countries getting ready to perform their hearts out for the European public. Here’s everything #YOU need to know about …
The line-up for this year’s long-awaited Eurovision in Concert is now complete, with Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra a welcome final addition to the Amsterdam showpiece preview party! The concert and press event has not been held since the lead-up to Tel Aviv in 2019, but fans and press are expected to descend on the Dutch capital this Saturday to welcome back …
Every day now, we are inching closer and closer to the upcoming song contest, and to make it feel even more closer, we’ve now even gotten the official running order confirmed for the two semi-final. Back in January, the semi-final allocation draw took place, which placed every country competing in either of the two semi-final, including the pre-qualified countries in …
Hoorn, 3 February 2022 As you remember, S10 had been internally selected to represent The Netherlands in Turin all the way back in December. S10 is the stage name of Stien den Hollander, a 21 year old singer and rapper from Hoorn. She is considered an upcoming pop talent in the Netherlands. After months of waiting, the Netherlands have finally …
A landmark moment in the yearly Eurovision Song Contest calendar, as this marks the official transition from last year’s host city (Rotterdam) to this year’s host city (Turin/Torino). The allocation draw was hosted by Carolina di Domenico and Mario Acampa. The Allocation Draw As usual, the draw took place in the upcoming host city of Turin, in the Palazzo Madama. …
All opinions expressed in this article are those of the person quoted and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the other team members or ESC United as a whole. It’s 3 days to go until Junior Eurovision 2021, and we are counting down the 19 nations participating in Paris on Sunday, December 19, 2021. Every day we will do …
Earlier this week, The Netherlands revealed that 22-year-old singer and rapper S10 will be representing the country at next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. But who is she? Here are five things to know about the up-and-coming star: It’s Pronounced ‘ès-ten’ ‘S10‘ isn’t pronounced how many English speakers might imagine. The actual pronunciation of her stage name is a slight alteration …
After the 2020 contest was cancelled, The Netherlands finally welcomed us to Rotterdam’s Ahoy in May. Unfortunately, the country’s representative, Jeangu Macrooy, managed to get only 11 points from the jury and none from the public vote with his song “Birth of a New Age”. Today, AVROTROS held a presentation via Eurovisie Songfestival‘s facebook page. We got ourselves the name …
After the massive success of Het Grote Songfestivalfeest in 2019, Eurovision fans were looking forward to one of the biggest Eurovision parties at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam on Thursday, December 9, 2021. However, due to new lockdown rules in the Netherlands, the team behind Het Grote Songfestivalfeest are forced to cancel this show. They announced the sad news on …
