Eurovision is put on by the European Broadcasting Union, and countries enter via their own national broadcasters. Each country enters an original song that has either been pre-chosen or won a national competition. Singers then perform those songs live in two semifinal rounds and a final, where...
The 2023 Eurovision Song Contest is here! This week will see the live semi-finals take place ahead of the grand finale on 13 May – find out all you need to know here
In fact, it's probably what she'sbestknown for. The 29-year-old legend has already been nominated forfourAcademy Awards and, while she hasn't won yet, three of those nominations were for period pieces. Specifically,Atonement,Brooklyn, andLittle Women, withLady Birdbeing the outlier. 16Jason...
Or one could make the brain-damage move of choosing Måneskin, the Eurovision-winning Italian rock band who seems to grow more inescapable every day. Meanwhile, Domi & JD Beck are ostensibly marginalized by their status as jazz musicians, but their cross-genre and -generational collaborations ...
The duo (made up of Sabine and Mārcis) won Supernova 2019 to represent Latvia in this year’s contest. Their song That Night is Sabine’s debut as a songwriter. Lithuania Jurijus Veklenko – Run with the Lions The Lithuanian singer has previous in the Eurovision Song Contest – he per...
I think everyone was pegging their hopes on the 14th. It made sense for any number of reasons, not least because you’ve got that sweet spot between the FA Cup Final and Eurovision. Where was the song and dance, the flurry of trumpets, the countdown, the slow reveal? Instead we got ...
ROFL! Better than most of the Eurovision lyrics, well done Shalini! 0 reply Name Email * Register or Login (Get credit for your great comments) cancel Send Required fields are marked * Izzy May 24, 2015 at 9:17 AM UNREGISTERED nooooooooooooo, this was too good lmfao!! 0 ...
Alexander Rybak — called “Alexander the Great” by the Norwegian media — won a great victory in the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) by gaining the most votes in its 53-year history in Moscow on Saturday. Alexander has played violin and piano since he was five years old, and he also com...
After submitting a demo-tape to Fontana Records ‘Are You Sure’ was entered in the heats for the UK entry to the Eurovision Song Contest in 1961 and won the opportunity to represent the UK. They came a close second to Luxembourg when the contest was staged in Cannes but the song became...
Most of them, who probably thought Conchita Wurst was the coolest thing they’d ever seen, probably weren’t even an ovum the night Dana International’s ‘Diva’ won the competition nearly 20 years ago. And even if you’re old enough to have sufficient knowledge of Eurovision pre-dating ...