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Hosts Eurovision 2020 known!

Tonight, NPO and Avrotros anounced the hosts of the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest. They will be Edsilia Rombley, Chantal Janzen and Jan Smit. Rombley took part in the contest twice. In 1998 she begane 4th with “Hemel en aarde”. In 2007 she was less successful, not reaching the final. Chantal Janzen is a wellknown tv show host for commercial broadcaster RTL. She hosted several gala shows as well and won the prize for best female tv show host a lot of times. Jan Smit became famous as a singer when he was 12 years old. He rose to fame with a #1 hit “Ik zing dit lied voor jou alleen”. The last few years he hosts the show “Best singers of The Netherlands “. He is the Dutch commenter at the Eurovision Song Contest since 2011.

Songs about Eurovision

It is very common in the Eurovision Song Contest to sing about love or about peace. But did you know there are also songs about…. Eurovision!? Yes, about Eurovision! The first time this happened, was in 1980, just as the upcoming year, it was in the Netherlands. The Belgian trio Telex sang a song that was entitled “Eurovision”. The entire refrain was filled with the word “Eurovision”. Beautiful ladies, beautiful gentlemen, music on the programme. Singers get ready, may the best win! That was the message Telex brought. It ended up in 17th place, but not before Telex-singer Michel Moers took a picture of the audience. In 2006 it was Lithuania that came up with a song about the contest itself. The band LT United proudly announced “We are the winners of Eurovision”. They asked the audience to vote for the winners, and the audience did! Unfortunately for them, it was not Lithuania they voted for but the Finnish band Lordi. However, LT United ended up in 6th place, which is up until now the best score ever for Lithuania. Oh, and let’s not forget the Icelandic entry of that same year…. their entrant Silvia Night congratulated the Eurovision nation with her presence. The audience was nót amused and Silvia did not reach the final.

From Dare to Dream to Open Up

Dare to dream! It was the theme of the previous Eurovision Song Contest. Well, we have to go back to the 6th of april 2019. A group of friends were having dinner, awaiting Eurovision in Concert 2019. At the table, we got the idea of a website about the Eurovision Song Contest. Looking for a name, we came up with www.eurovisionuniverse.com. It has always been my dream to have an international website, containing all the information about the Eurovision Song Contest. I have been attending many Eurovision Song Contests and I work for Eurovision Artists. This Dutch/Belgian organization has a website and a wonderful magazine too. Sebastian Hogebrug, Anja Kroeze and I teamed up to decide what the website would look like, later joined by Tatum den Besten. A lot of hard work followed, and of course it is not done yet. But we are proud to finally be able to open up and show you what we have done so far. The website is still work in progress. Because of that our archive and some other parts can be slow. We expect this to be solved in about two weeks time. Meanwhile, enjoy what we already achieved. On behalve of team Eurovision Universe, Martijn van der Veen