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41 countries in 2022 Eurovision Song Contest

41 countries will take part in the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest in Turin. That is what EBU announced today. In comparison with the 2021 contest, Armenia and Montenegro return. The full list is here: Albania Australia Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia

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UEFA 2020 Quarter finals: DAY 2

Today is the day for the other twho quarter finals in the European soccer Championship. The first match will be between Czech Republic and Denmark. Both countries have sent boybands in the past. Czech Republic sent Lake Malawi in 2019. Denmark sent boybands more than once. We chose for the

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UEFA 2020 eighth finals: DAY 2

We already go to the second day of the eighth finals in the European Soccer Championship. The first match is between Czech Republic and The Netherlands. For this match, we go back to 1968. The Czech Republic did not participate, but one of the most popular Czech singers, Karel Gott,

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UEFA 2020: DAY 8

The European Soccer Championship has already reached it’s 8th day. Today, we will see three other matches. To start with Sweden-Slovakia. What we found was a couple of mystical songs. Sweden once sent the group One More Time to the contest with the song “Den vilda”. One of the members

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Recap First Rehearsals Day 3

Today we have watched another 9 first rehearsals at Day 3. In our opinion Greece, Iceland and Austria impressed the most, all  in a completely different way. Greece because of the graphics, Austria because of the vocals, and Iceland because of the typical but outstanding performance. Most dissapointing rehearsals: Estonia

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1st Rehearsal Czech Republic.

Benny Cristo appears in a gold bomber jacket, with bleached hair, flanked by 4 dancers. The graphics are quite busy, which apparently makes something else happen on stage. Vocally, he seems to hold back very much and not give everything. He had also announced this in advance. In Cooperation with

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Road to Rotterdam: Czech Republic

Benny Cristo’s real name is Ben da Silva Cristovão. That does not sound very Czech indeed. Benny Cristo is the son of an Angolan father and a Czech mother. In 2009 he was one of the finalists of Česko Slovenská SuperStar., The Czech / Slovak version of Pop Idol. He

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Czech Republic: Benny Cristo sings “Omaga”

photo: instagram “Omaga” it is: the Czech entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. After the cancellation of last year’s contest, Czech Television decided to invite their contestant Benny Cristo again.  Cristo came up with a song called, as we know now, “Omaga”. The song is written and composed by Filip

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Benny Cristo

© EBU/Andres Putting About Quick Facts NameBen Cristovao Born08 June 1987 Nationality🇨🇿 Czech National SelectionInternal selection 2021Eurovision Song CZ 2020 In Eurovision2021 Rotterdam2020 Rotterdam (cancelled) SongOmaga (2021)Kemama (2020, cancelled) Biography Benny Cristo, real name Ben Cristovao is a Czech singer, songwriter, actor and sportsman. He is the son of a

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Czech Republic decided: it’s Benny Cristo

The Czech Republic has chosen and the winner is Benny Cristo. Well, the Czech Republic…. the entire European eurofanbase was able to vote in the Czech final through a special Eurovision app. While the app voters chose for Barbora Mochowa, the Czech audience had Benny Cristo as their favorite…. and

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