Last night the 70th edition of Festival di Sanremo was held. The first twelve acts took the stage and only demoscopic jury voted. Besides the competitors, Italian superstar Tiziano Ferro performed and one of the songs in his line up was an evergreen – Nel blu dipinto di blu. The theme of the night was rising awareness for the violence …
Tonight saw the final of the Israeli singing competition HaKokhav HaBa (The Next Star) L’Eurovizion, in which four artists who had battled through the various eliminations of the competition performed one last time, with a spot at Eurovision 2020 in Rotterdam at stake. The four acts who took part in the competition were; Eden Alene Orr Amrami-Brockman Ella-Lee Lahav Gaya …
We at ESC United continue to bring you exclusive interviews with the participants from national finals from all over Europe! Next up, it’s time to head to Serbia. You all know who will participate at Serbian national selection, Beovizija, and one of the contestants who we’ve interviewed is Marko Marković, whose song has quite an interesting title – Kolači (Cakes). …
It was announced earlier today that Ljiljana Petrović, Yugoslavia’s debut entrant at Eurovision in 1961 with “Neke davne zvezde” (“Some ancient stars”), has passed away at the age of 81 at her home in Novi Sad, Serbia. Born in 1939, in Bosanski Brod (then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, now Bosnia-Herzegovina), and raised in Novi Sad, Petrović started her …
On Saturday, Australia will be selecting their artist for the second time using a national final, as Australia Decides 2020 takes place in Gold Coast. Ten acts are fighting for the lucrative Australian ticket to Rotterdam, and we will be there to help cover every twist and turn of the competition! Our Australian editor Holly will be in Gold Coast …
After weeks and weeks of rumors and speculation Greek broadcaster, ERT, tonight has finally confirmed that the young Stefania Liberakakis will represent the country coming May in Rotterdam with the song Supergirl compesed by Dimitris Kontopoulos. Greek dream team will be complete as her staging will be done by Fokas Evangelinos. As it was announced, the initial plan was to release the …
After a long show with a lot of interviews and performances from Lake Malawi and Martina Barta we got the nervewrecking points distribution. And the winner and representitive for the Czech Republic is Benny Cristo with his song Kemama! Multiple ex-Eurovision artists gave away their points to all of the songs. The votes from everybody across the world also counted …
This weekend Norway’s musical tour of the country comes to a close, as we make our final stop in Northern Norway. Up until this point there has been a lot of mixed reception about the new format of Melodi Grand Prix, with some thinking it has been a celebration of regional diversity, and others believing that the qualifiers could have …
Today the news came out that Evgenya Redko was forced to withrdaw from Pabandom Iš Naujo semi-final 2. She is supposedly suffering from a spinal Hernia. She got the Hernia following rehearsals in mid-January. Not for the Lithuanian selection, but for the M.A.M.A. award show which is basically a Lithuanian Grammy show. Evgenya entered the competition with her song “Far”: …
Yesterday the news came out that Thorsten Flinck was disqualified by SVT following charges against him filed by the Swedish law enforcement. SVT announced that they would search for a replacement and a little earlier today that replacement was found. The guy to replace Thorsten Flinck is a known face in Eurovision-land: Jan Johansen. He performed on numerous occasions in …
