from left to right: Gerben Bakker, Getty Kaspers, Lenny Kuhr Six legendary former winners will be put in the spotlights again during the 65th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. Lenny Kuhr (1969), Teach-In (with Getty Kaspers, 1975), Sandra Kim (1986), Helena Paparizou (2005), Lordi (2006) and Måns Zelmerlöw (2015)
North Macedonian broadcaster MRT decided to investigate the participation of their singer Vasil in the contest. Today, the result of that investigation became known: Vasil can participate in the contest in Rotterdam. “Music wins”, Eurovision Macedonia stated in a tweet. On his Instagram Vasil replied: “RAY (ed nd ellow) ❤️????
“The Eurovision Song Contest will take place in the second half of May, with at least three TV shows and possibly adapted activities in the city of Rotterdam”, a spokesman of the organisation said today to news agency ANP. “The Eurovision song contest is a valuable opportunity for the event
As you all could read here there is a lot of opposition against Vasil’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest. Vasil came up with his own statement today: “I am a music ambassador, and in music there is no religion, politics, orientation, race or color. I had absolutely no intentions to hurt anybody. Quite the opposite! I am so proud of this project which not only embodies me, but my country and culture – musicians and featured artists in the gallery. I do not apologise for being me. I never will – I didn’t have a choice in that. However, if I hurt ANYBODY in ANY WAY, from the bottom of my heart … I am sorry. Forgive me.”
A storm came up when the video of the North Macedonian entry “Here I stand” appeared. In the video, the colors of the Bulgarian flag are shown. Vasil, the North Macedonian singer, is a member of the Bulgarian minority in North Macedonia. Many people in North Macedonia objected against Vasil as a participant. A petition was signed already 17.000 times.
photo: PBS/Destiny And finally, also Malta publised its entry. The song is called “Je me casse”and will be performed by Destiny. Despite the title, the song is not sung in French but in English. Destiny, who already knows what winning a song contest is as she won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest,
It was probably the entry people had the highest expectations for: Daði & gagnamagnið’s Icelandic entry, “10 years”, written and composed by Daði Freyr himself.
Tusse has won Melodifestivalen 2021 and thus will represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Voices”. The song is wirtten and composed by Joy and Linnea Debb, Jimmy Thörnfeldt and Anton Wrethov. Tusse was the favourite of both expert jury and televoters. The full result of Melodifestivalen
Tonight is the night for the last national final of this year: Swedish Melodifestivalen comes to an end tonight. Bookmakers say Tusse is the huge favourite to win this thing. But also Eric Saade stands a high chance to do so. Or will it be a surprise winner? We will
Latvia is one of the last countries to present their entry. Samanta Tīna is going to sing “The moon is rising”, a song written and composed by Samanta herself together with Aminata Savadogo and Oskars Uhaņs.
On her Instagram, Samanta stated: “This song is about powerful and admirable women, about every single woman.