It’s La Zarra who is going to represent France in the Eurovision Song Contest. That was announced by French television on January 12th this year. Tonight, her Eurovision song “Évidemment” has been revealed. The song is written and composed by herself, her producer Ben Adam and KNY Factory, the same team that wrote her big hit “Tu t’en iras”. France will automatically perform in the final. You can listen to the song here:
Iru Kechanovi has won The Voice Georgia and thus will represent the country at the Eurovision Song Contest. The song, with which she will represent the country, will be presented later. Iru was coached by Dato Porchkhidze. She sang the Eurovision song “Euphoria” in the final. Iru gained 21,88% of the votes. The full results are: Iru Kechanovi, 21,88% Giorgi Datiashvili 15,72% Likuna Tutisani 13,76% Lika Siradze 13,73% Anka Tatarashvili 11,56% Tina Datikashvili 10,34% Tako Kakalashvili 10,9% Kakha Aslamazashvili 2,92%
photo: ORF A lot of Eurovision news comes in these days. This morning, radiostation Ö3 announced that Teya and Salena will represent Austria. The song, of which we don’t know the title yet, will be presented the 8th of March, International Women’s Day. Both Teya and Salena have some Eurovision experience. Salena did an attempt in the internal selection in 2019 and Teya in 2020. Under the name of Thea Devy, Teya took part in the 2020 Serbian national selection with the song “Sudnji dan”. Teya in the Serbian final in 2020. Salena in The Voice Germany in 2017. The announcement for the Eurovision Song Contest (in German).
About Quick Facts NameFatima Zahra Hafdi Born25 August 1997 Nationality🇨🇦 Canadian National SelectionInternal selection 2023 In Eurovision2023 Liverpool SongÉvidemment (2023) Biography La Zarra, born in Montréal, is a Canadian-Moroccan singer. She remains very discreet about her origins and career. We know of her that she grew up near the city of Longueuil (in Quebec) and that she has North African origins. In 2016, she became known for an artistic collaboration with Niro on the song “Printemps blanc”. In 2021, the singer increases her notoriety with the title “Tu t’en iras”, which was broadcast regularly on radio and television. The song is certified a platinum single. The song hit the French charts. On 3 December 2021, La Zarra’s debut Album “Traîtrise” was released. The same year, La Zarra was named as a French-speaking revelation at the NRJ Music Awards 2021. On 24 June 2022, La Zarra released a new single: “Sans moi”. On January 12, 2023, France Télévisions announced that La Zarra was going represent France at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023. In the contest itself, her song “Évidemment” reached a 16th place. Entries Évidemment Country🇫🇷 France Year2023 LanguageFrench LyricsFatima Zahra HafdiAhmed SaghirYannick RastogiZacharia Raymond MusicFatima Zahra HafdiAhmed Saghir Backings– Results Semi Points: –Position: –Running order: – Results Finals Points: 104Position: 16Running order: 6 https://youtu.be/fOtQJ4o-HoA
© EBU/Sarah Louise Bennett About Quick Facts NameNoya Kirel Born10 april 2001 Nationality🇮🇱 Israeli National SelectionInternal selection 2023 In Eurovision2023 TBA SongTBA (2023) Biography Noa Kirel was born and raised in Ra’anana. At the age of 10, she auditioned for the reality show “Music School” on Channel 2, but was not accepted. At the age of 13, she appeared in a commercial. Kirel’s musical career began in 2015 when she released a song called “Medabrim”, the song became a huge success after gaining many views. In the same year she released another song called “Killer”. The accompanying provocative video clip caused an uproar due to Kirel’s young age. The clip gained many views on YouTube and became one of her most recognizable clips. At the same time, Kirel appeared in a docu-reality series called “Pushraz”. Between the years 2015-2016, she released additional songs, which were presented on YouTube and played on various radio stations. It includes “Yesh be ahava” (November 2015) which was the first song to enter the Galglatz playlist, “Rak ata” (April 2016), “Hatzi meshuga” (July 2016), “Bye lahofesh” (July 2016) and “Ten li siman” (December 2016). At the end of 2016, she earned the title of “Singer of the Year” at the Children’s Chosen Ceremony. On February 26, 2017 Kirel hosted the musical show “Lipstar” on the kidZ channel, alongside Sagi Breitner. In May, she released a song called “Makom leshinuy” which she sang in a duet with Avior Melsa. Kirel released several other songs during the year, all of which are became hits. In 2017, she starred in a major role in the teen movie “Almost Famous”. In the same year she also performed in the musical show “The Three Musketeers”. On August 28, Kirel released a single that she performed together with Agam Bohbot, a cover version of Danny Sanderson’s song; “Etzel Ha’Doda ve Ha’Dod”, as part of an advertising campaign for the Bezeq company. In November 2017, she represented Israel at the “MTV Europe Music Awards” (EMA), in the “International Artist” category. On January 1, 2018, she began acting in the TV series “Kfula”. A month later, she became a judge in the talent show Israel Got Talent. “Got Talent Israel”. On May 1 of the same year, the series Shilton Ha’Tzlalim aired, in which she plays a role of Bashmat.[17] On June 28, she released “I Want You”. She teamed up with several other Israeli artists to release new music. In October 2018, Kirel was chosen for the second time to represent Israel at the MTV Europe Music Awards, but she could not attend the ceremony held in Spain due to a tight schedule. On November 2, she released the song “Zikaron yashan” in collaboration with the singer Jonathan Margi. On February 10, 2019, she released the song “Drum”. The song accompanied the February-April 2019 campaign of the Israeli fashion brand “Renoir”. On July 22, she released the song “Pouch”. The song reached the #7 spot in the Israeli charts. In November 2019, she represented Israel for the third time in a row at the MTV Europe Music Awards. On January 14, 2020, Kirel released the single “Im atah gever”. At the beginning of 2020, the magazine Forbes Israel included Kirel in the list of promising young people of 2020. In February of that year, Kirel joined the Israeli Defence Force and served in a special talent track, in which she performed in front of soldiers and female soldiers. On February 14, 2022, she finished her military service. On June 9, 2020 she released the song “Million Dollar” featuring singer Shahar Saul. In the same month, it was announced that Cyril had signed a multi-million dollar international contract with the American record company Atlantic Records. In addition, Kirel launched the widget “Weshik” which was closed a year later. On July 4, Kirel began to appear in the fourth season of the program Music School, where she was a teacher. In August 2020, she released the song “Ambulance” together with Jonathan Mergui. In September 2020, she was named “Woman of the Year” in the annual Hebrew Hymn Parade by Galglatz and Ynet. On September 17, she participated in the “annual parade of the music and dance school” that was broadcast on Keshet 12. In September, she was awarded the title “Singer of the Year” in the annual Kaan Gimel Hebrew Hymn Parade. On March 7, 2021, Kirel released the single “Diamonds”, which was produced under the auspices of the jewelry company Royalty. In the same month, Kirel received the “Changing the Beauty Ideal” award for 2021 as part of the fashion week held in Tel Aviv. On July 14, 2021, Noa Kirel released her debut international single, “Please Don’t Suck”. Kirel was the most played artist on MTV Israel for the year 2015. On October 15, 2021, she released the single “Bad Little Thing” which she also performed at the Miss World 2021 ceremony. According to Spotify Israel playback data for 2021, Kirel is the second most balanced artist on the platform this year. On December 14, the single “Reashim” was released together with the singer Osher Cohen. Kirel was chosen as one of Globes Magazine’s People of the Year for 2021.In addition, she is the most played musician in 2021 on TikTok Israel. On January 12, 2022, she published the song “Thought About That”. On March 5, the single “Bell” featuring Itay Glo was released, which was released exclusively on TikTok Israel for the first week of its release. n May 27, she released her first single in the Spanish language, “Dale Promo”, together with Puerto Rican singer Metro de Savage and featuring Boaz Van Dee Beats. On June 1, Kirel released the single “Three Girls” together with Git Fisher for Pride Month. On June 28, she released the single “Release Me” together with Dolly and Penn and Peled. In June 2022, she began acting in the third season of the youth series “Palmah”. On July 25, the movie “I Love You Charlie” was
photo: instagram It’s been exactly one month since KAN announced that Noa Kirel was selected to represent Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023. However the tables turned really quickly, ’cause the day after Noa said she still had to decide if she was willing to do the job. Today the official news came out that Kirel will indeed wave the Israeli flag on the Eurovision stage! Kirel is a 21 year old singer, who often sings in Hebrew. Perhaps something we can look forward to for 2023. Noa has had many hits in Israel, with her biggest song being “מיליון דולר”.
Today, the sad news came to us that Dame Olivia Newton John passed away. The Dame was 73 years old. Olivia Newton-John was born in Cambridge, but the family moved to Australia when she was only 5 years old. She returned to the UK in the sixties. She had her first hits in 1971: “If not for you” became a huge hit in several countries, followed by “Banks of the Ohio”, which became a number 1 hit in Australia. As a good friend of Cliff Richard, she was interested in participating in the Eurovision Song Contest. In 1974 she represented the United Kingdom. Out of 6 songs, “Long live love” was chosen. She was not too happy with the choice of the British audience, who voted with postcards. However, Olivia was one of the hot favourites at the bookmakers. In the end, she became 4th. Shortly after the Eurovision Song Contest, Olivia moved to the USA. She scored no less than 5 number 1 hits, only in the years 1974 and 1975. Her worldwide breakthrough as an actress came in 1978, when she and John Travolta performed in the teenage movie “Grease”, a movie that became and still is an evergreen. The movie produced hits like “You’re the one that I want”, “Hopelessly devoted to you” and “Summer nights”. Another worldwide movie hit was “Xanadu”, two years after “Grease”. The title song was a world wide hit as well. After these two movies she scored a worldwide hit again, the song “Physical”: After “Physical” she kept on having hits, although it became more difficult for her to have worldwide top hits. The exception came in 1990, when she and John Travolta teamed up again to record the “Grease Megamix”. In total, Olivia Newton John released 26 albums, 6 live albums and several soundtracks. In 1992, Olivia had cancer for the first time. The cancer returned in 2013 and again in 2017. In 2019, Newton-John was knighted by Queen Elizabeth, including for her contribution to cancer research. Since then she was allowed to call herself Dame.
(Maria) Kalomira (Carol Sarantis) is a Greek-American artist. She was born and raised on Long Island, just outside New York. At the end of 2007, Heaven Music chose Kalomira to be their contestant in the 2008 National Final to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 held in Serbia Kalomira picked an R&B style upbeat song with a Greek feel, titled “Secret Combination” In the first semifinal, held on May 20, 2008, Kalomira fared well, coming in first place. At the Eurovision final, on May 24, she came in third behind Russia and Ukraine, with 218 points. Follow our Summer Party : Spotify and You Tube Photocredits: EBU
Charlotte Perrelli participated in the Eurovision Songcontest 1999 which was held in Israel. Representing Sweden, She came saw and conquered, winning the contest with 163 points. Follow our Summer Party: Youtube and Spotify
Tina Karol ( Tatjana Gregorjevna Liberman ) represented Ukraine at the Eurovision Songcontest 2006 in Athenes, Greece. She ended 7th, with 145 points. Follow our Summer Party: Spotify and You Tube
It’s La Zarra who is going to represent France in the Eurovision Song Contest. That was announced by French television on January 12th this year. Tonight, her Eurovision song “Évidemment” has been revealed. The song is written and composed by herself, her producer Ben Adam and KNY Factory, the same team that wrote her big hit “Tu t’en iras”. France will automatically perform in the final. You can listen to the song here:
Iru Kechanovi has won The Voice Georgia and thus will represent the country at the Eurovision Song Contest. The song, with which she will represent the country, will be presented later. Iru was coached by Dato Porchkhidze. She sang the Eurovision song “Euphoria” in the final. Iru gained 21,88% of the votes. The full results are: Iru Kechanovi, 21,88% Giorgi Datiashvili 15,72% Likuna Tutisani 13,76% Lika Siradze 13,73% Anka Tatarashvili 11,56% Tina Datikashvili 10,34% Tako Kakalashvili 10,9% Kakha Aslamazashvili 2,92%
photo: ORF A lot of Eurovision news comes in these days. This morning, radiostation Ö3 announced that Teya and Salena will represent Austria. The song, of which we don’t know the title yet, will be presented the 8th of March, International Women’s Day. Both Teya and Salena have some Eurovision experience. Salena did an attempt in the internal selection in 2019 and Teya in 2020. Under the name of Thea Devy, Teya took part in the 2020 Serbian national selection with the song “Sudnji dan”. Teya in the Serbian final in 2020. Salena in The Voice Germany in 2017. The announcement for the Eurovision Song Contest (in German).
About Quick Facts NameFatima Zahra Hafdi Born25 August 1997 Nationality🇨🇦 Canadian National SelectionInternal selection 2023 In Eurovision2023 Liverpool SongÉvidemment (2023) Biography La Zarra, born in Montréal, is a Canadian-Moroccan singer. She remains very discreet about her origins and career. We know of her that she grew up near the city of Longueuil (in Quebec) and that she has North African origins. In 2016, she became known for an artistic collaboration with Niro on the song “Printemps blanc”. In 2021, the singer increases her notoriety with the title “Tu t’en iras”, which was broadcast regularly on radio and television. The song is certified a platinum single. The song hit the French charts. On 3 December 2021, La Zarra’s debut Album “Traîtrise” was released. The same year, La Zarra was named as a French-speaking revelation at the NRJ Music Awards 2021. On 24 June 2022, La Zarra released a new single: “Sans moi”. On January 12, 2023, France Télévisions announced that La Zarra was going represent France at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023. In the contest itself, her song “Évidemment” reached a 16th place. Entries Évidemment Country🇫🇷 France Year2023 LanguageFrench LyricsFatima Zahra HafdiAhmed SaghirYannick RastogiZacharia Raymond MusicFatima Zahra HafdiAhmed Saghir Backings– Results Semi Points: –Position: –Running order: – Results Finals Points: 104Position: 16Running order: 6 https://youtu.be/fOtQJ4o-HoA
© EBU/Sarah Louise Bennett About Quick Facts NameNoya Kirel Born10 april 2001 Nationality🇮🇱 Israeli National SelectionInternal selection 2023 In Eurovision2023 TBA SongTBA (2023) Biography Noa Kirel was born and raised in Ra’anana. At the age of 10, she auditioned for the reality show “Music School” on Channel 2, but was not accepted. At the age of 13, she appeared in a commercial. Kirel’s musical career began in 2015 when she released a song called “Medabrim”, the song became a huge success after gaining many views. In the same year she released another song called “Killer”. The accompanying provocative video clip caused an uproar due to Kirel’s young age. The clip gained many views on YouTube and became one of her most recognizable clips. At the same time, Kirel appeared in a docu-reality series called “Pushraz”. Between the years 2015-2016, she released additional songs, which were presented on YouTube and played on various radio stations. It includes “Yesh be ahava” (November 2015) which was the first song to enter the Galglatz playlist, “Rak ata” (April 2016), “Hatzi meshuga” (July 2016), “Bye lahofesh” (July 2016) and “Ten li siman” (December 2016). At the end of 2016, she earned the title of “Singer of the Year” at the Children’s Chosen Ceremony. On February 26, 2017 Kirel hosted the musical show “Lipstar” on the kidZ channel, alongside Sagi Breitner. In May, she released a song called “Makom leshinuy” which she sang in a duet with Avior Melsa. Kirel released several other songs during the year, all of which are became hits. In 2017, she starred in a major role in the teen movie “Almost Famous”. In the same year she also performed in the musical show “The Three Musketeers”. On August 28, Kirel released a single that she performed together with Agam Bohbot, a cover version of Danny Sanderson’s song; “Etzel Ha’Doda ve Ha’Dod”, as part of an advertising campaign for the Bezeq company. In November 2017, she represented Israel at the “MTV Europe Music Awards” (EMA), in the “International Artist” category. On January 1, 2018, she began acting in the TV series “Kfula”. A month later, she became a judge in the talent show Israel Got Talent. “Got Talent Israel”. On May 1 of the same year, the series Shilton Ha’Tzlalim aired, in which she plays a role of Bashmat.[17] On June 28, she released “I Want You”. She teamed up with several other Israeli artists to release new music. In October 2018, Kirel was chosen for the second time to represent Israel at the MTV Europe Music Awards, but she could not attend the ceremony held in Spain due to a tight schedule. On November 2, she released the song “Zikaron yashan” in collaboration with the singer Jonathan Margi. On February 10, 2019, she released the song “Drum”. The song accompanied the February-April 2019 campaign of the Israeli fashion brand “Renoir”. On July 22, she released the song “Pouch”. The song reached the #7 spot in the Israeli charts. In November 2019, she represented Israel for the third time in a row at the MTV Europe Music Awards. On January 14, 2020, Kirel released the single “Im atah gever”. At the beginning of 2020, the magazine Forbes Israel included Kirel in the list of promising young people of 2020. In February of that year, Kirel joined the Israeli Defence Force and served in a special talent track, in which she performed in front of soldiers and female soldiers. On February 14, 2022, she finished her military service. On June 9, 2020 she released the song “Million Dollar” featuring singer Shahar Saul. In the same month, it was announced that Cyril had signed a multi-million dollar international contract with the American record company Atlantic Records. In addition, Kirel launched the widget “Weshik” which was closed a year later. On July 4, Kirel began to appear in the fourth season of the program Music School, where she was a teacher. In August 2020, she released the song “Ambulance” together with Jonathan Mergui. In September 2020, she was named “Woman of the Year” in the annual Hebrew Hymn Parade by Galglatz and Ynet. On September 17, she participated in the “annual parade of the music and dance school” that was broadcast on Keshet 12. In September, she was awarded the title “Singer of the Year” in the annual Kaan Gimel Hebrew Hymn Parade. On March 7, 2021, Kirel released the single “Diamonds”, which was produced under the auspices of the jewelry company Royalty. In the same month, Kirel received the “Changing the Beauty Ideal” award for 2021 as part of the fashion week held in Tel Aviv. On July 14, 2021, Noa Kirel released her debut international single, “Please Don’t Suck”. Kirel was the most played artist on MTV Israel for the year 2015. On October 15, 2021, she released the single “Bad Little Thing” which she also performed at the Miss World 2021 ceremony. According to Spotify Israel playback data for 2021, Kirel is the second most balanced artist on the platform this year. On December 14, the single “Reashim” was released together with the singer Osher Cohen. Kirel was chosen as one of Globes Magazine’s People of the Year for 2021.In addition, she is the most played musician in 2021 on TikTok Israel. On January 12, 2022, she published the song “Thought About That”. On March 5, the single “Bell” featuring Itay Glo was released, which was released exclusively on TikTok Israel for the first week of its release. n May 27, she released her first single in the Spanish language, “Dale Promo”, together with Puerto Rican singer Metro de Savage and featuring Boaz Van Dee Beats. On June 1, Kirel released the single “Three Girls” together with Git Fisher for Pride Month. On June 28, she released the single “Release Me” together with Dolly and Penn and Peled. In June 2022, she began acting in the third season of the youth series “Palmah”. On July 25, the movie “I Love You Charlie” was
photo: instagram It’s been exactly one month since KAN announced that Noa Kirel was selected to represent Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023. However the tables turned really quickly, ’cause the day after Noa said she still had to decide if she was willing to do the job. Today the official news came out that Kirel will indeed wave the Israeli flag on the Eurovision stage! Kirel is a 21 year old singer, who often sings in Hebrew. Perhaps something we can look forward to for 2023. Noa has had many hits in Israel, with her biggest song being “מיליון דולר”.
Today, the sad news came to us that Dame Olivia Newton John passed away. The Dame was 73 years old. Olivia Newton-John was born in Cambridge, but the family moved to Australia when she was only 5 years old. She returned to the UK in the sixties. She had her first hits in 1971: “If not for you” became a huge hit in several countries, followed by “Banks of the Ohio”, which became a number 1 hit in Australia. As a good friend of Cliff Richard, she was interested in participating in the Eurovision Song Contest. In 1974 she represented the United Kingdom. Out of 6 songs, “Long live love” was chosen. She was not too happy with the choice of the British audience, who voted with postcards. However, Olivia was one of the hot favourites at the bookmakers. In the end, she became 4th. Shortly after the Eurovision Song Contest, Olivia moved to the USA. She scored no less than 5 number 1 hits, only in the years 1974 and 1975. Her worldwide breakthrough as an actress came in 1978, when she and John Travolta performed in the teenage movie “Grease”, a movie that became and still is an evergreen. The movie produced hits like “You’re the one that I want”, “Hopelessly devoted to you” and “Summer nights”. Another worldwide movie hit was “Xanadu”, two years after “Grease”. The title song was a world wide hit as well. After these two movies she scored a worldwide hit again, the song “Physical”: After “Physical” she kept on having hits, although it became more difficult for her to have worldwide top hits. The exception came in 1990, when she and John Travolta teamed up again to record the “Grease Megamix”. In total, Olivia Newton John released 26 albums, 6 live albums and several soundtracks. In 1992, Olivia had cancer for the first time. The cancer returned in 2013 and again in 2017. In 2019, Newton-John was knighted by Queen Elizabeth, including for her contribution to cancer research. Since then she was allowed to call herself Dame.
(Maria) Kalomira (Carol Sarantis) is a Greek-American artist. She was born and raised on Long Island, just outside New York. At the end of 2007, Heaven Music chose Kalomira to be their contestant in the 2008 National Final to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 held in Serbia Kalomira picked an R&B style upbeat song with a Greek feel, titled “Secret Combination” In the first semifinal, held on May 20, 2008, Kalomira fared well, coming in first place. At the Eurovision final, on May 24, she came in third behind Russia and Ukraine, with 218 points. Follow our Summer Party : Spotify and You Tube Photocredits: EBU
Charlotte Perrelli participated in the Eurovision Songcontest 1999 which was held in Israel. Representing Sweden, She came saw and conquered, winning the contest with 163 points. Follow our Summer Party: Youtube and Spotify
Tina Karol ( Tatjana Gregorjevna Liberman ) represented Ukraine at the Eurovision Songcontest 2006 in Athenes, Greece. She ended 7th, with 145 points. Follow our Summer Party: Spotify and You Tube
It’s La Zarra who is going to represent France in the Eurovision Song Contest. That was announced by French television on January 12th this year. Tonight, her Eurovision song “Évidemment” has been revealed. The song is written and composed by herself, her producer Ben Adam and KNY Factory, the same team that wrote her big hit “Tu t’en iras”. France will automatically perform in the final. You can listen to the song here:
Iru Kechanovi has won The Voice Georgia and thus will represent the country at the Eurovision Song Contest. The song, with which she will represent the country, will be presented later. Iru was coached by Dato Porchkhidze. She sang the Eurovision song “Euphoria” in the final. Iru gained 21,88% of the votes. The full results are: Iru Kechanovi, 21,88% Giorgi Datiashvili 15,72% Likuna Tutisani 13,76% Lika Siradze 13,73% Anka Tatarashvili 11,56% Tina Datikashvili 10,34% Tako Kakalashvili 10,9% Kakha Aslamazashvili 2,92%
photo: ORF A lot of Eurovision news comes in these days. This morning, radiostation Ö3 announced that Teya and Salena will represent Austria. The song, of which we don’t know the title yet, will be presented the 8th of March, International Women’s Day. Both Teya and Salena have some Eurovision experience. Salena did an attempt in the internal selection in 2019 and Teya in 2020. Under the name of Thea Devy, Teya took part in the 2020 Serbian national selection with the song “Sudnji dan”. Teya in the Serbian final in 2020. Salena in The Voice Germany in 2017. The announcement for the Eurovision Song Contest (in German).
About Quick Facts NameFatima Zahra Hafdi Born25 August 1997 Nationality🇨🇦 Canadian National SelectionInternal selection 2023 In Eurovision2023 Liverpool SongÉvidemment (2023) Biography La Zarra, born in Montréal, is a Canadian-Moroccan singer. She remains very discreet about her origins and career. We know of her that she grew up near the city of Longueuil (in Quebec) and that she has North African origins. In 2016, she became known for an artistic collaboration with Niro on the song “Printemps blanc”. In 2021, the singer increases her notoriety with the title “Tu t’en iras”, which was broadcast regularly on radio and television. The song is certified a platinum single. The song hit the French charts. On 3 December 2021, La Zarra’s debut Album “Traîtrise” was released. The same year, La Zarra was named as a French-speaking revelation at the NRJ Music Awards 2021. On 24 June 2022, La Zarra released a new single: “Sans moi”. On January 12, 2023, France Télévisions announced that La Zarra was going represent France at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023. In the contest itself, her song “Évidemment” reached a 16th place. Entries Évidemment Country🇫🇷 France Year2023 LanguageFrench LyricsFatima Zahra HafdiAhmed SaghirYannick RastogiZacharia Raymond MusicFatima Zahra HafdiAhmed Saghir Backings– Results Semi Points: –Position: –Running order: – Results Finals Points: 104Position: 16Running order: 6 https://youtu.be/fOtQJ4o-HoA
© EBU/Sarah Louise Bennett About Quick Facts NameNoya Kirel Born10 april 2001 Nationality🇮🇱 Israeli National SelectionInternal selection 2023 In Eurovision2023 TBA SongTBA (2023) Biography Noa Kirel was born and raised in Ra’anana. At the age of 10, she auditioned for the reality show “Music School” on Channel 2, but was not accepted. At the age of 13, she appeared in a commercial. Kirel’s musical career began in 2015 when she released a song called “Medabrim”, the song became a huge success after gaining many views. In the same year she released another song called “Killer”. The accompanying provocative video clip caused an uproar due to Kirel’s young age. The clip gained many views on YouTube and became one of her most recognizable clips. At the same time, Kirel appeared in a docu-reality series called “Pushraz”. Between the years 2015-2016, she released additional songs, which were presented on YouTube and played on various radio stations. It includes “Yesh be ahava” (November 2015) which was the first song to enter the Galglatz playlist, “Rak ata” (April 2016), “Hatzi meshuga” (July 2016), “Bye lahofesh” (July 2016) and “Ten li siman” (December 2016). At the end of 2016, she earned the title of “Singer of the Year” at the Children’s Chosen Ceremony. On February 26, 2017 Kirel hosted the musical show “Lipstar” on the kidZ channel, alongside Sagi Breitner. In May, she released a song called “Makom leshinuy” which she sang in a duet with Avior Melsa. Kirel released several other songs during the year, all of which are became hits. In 2017, she starred in a major role in the teen movie “Almost Famous”. In the same year she also performed in the musical show “The Three Musketeers”. On August 28, Kirel released a single that she performed together with Agam Bohbot, a cover version of Danny Sanderson’s song; “Etzel Ha’Doda ve Ha’Dod”, as part of an advertising campaign for the Bezeq company. In November 2017, she represented Israel at the “MTV Europe Music Awards” (EMA), in the “International Artist” category. On January 1, 2018, she began acting in the TV series “Kfula”. A month later, she became a judge in the talent show Israel Got Talent. “Got Talent Israel”. On May 1 of the same year, the series Shilton Ha’Tzlalim aired, in which she plays a role of Bashmat.[17] On June 28, she released “I Want You”. She teamed up with several other Israeli artists to release new music. In October 2018, Kirel was chosen for the second time to represent Israel at the MTV Europe Music Awards, but she could not attend the ceremony held in Spain due to a tight schedule. On November 2, she released the song “Zikaron yashan” in collaboration with the singer Jonathan Margi. On February 10, 2019, she released the song “Drum”. The song accompanied the February-April 2019 campaign of the Israeli fashion brand “Renoir”. On July 22, she released the song “Pouch”. The song reached the #7 spot in the Israeli charts. In November 2019, she represented Israel for the third time in a row at the MTV Europe Music Awards. On January 14, 2020, Kirel released the single “Im atah gever”. At the beginning of 2020, the magazine Forbes Israel included Kirel in the list of promising young people of 2020. In February of that year, Kirel joined the Israeli Defence Force and served in a special talent track, in which she performed in front of soldiers and female soldiers. On February 14, 2022, she finished her military service. On June 9, 2020 she released the song “Million Dollar” featuring singer Shahar Saul. In the same month, it was announced that Cyril had signed a multi-million dollar international contract with the American record company Atlantic Records. In addition, Kirel launched the widget “Weshik” which was closed a year later. On July 4, Kirel began to appear in the fourth season of the program Music School, where she was a teacher. In August 2020, she released the song “Ambulance” together with Jonathan Mergui. In September 2020, she was named “Woman of the Year” in the annual Hebrew Hymn Parade by Galglatz and Ynet. On September 17, she participated in the “annual parade of the music and dance school” that was broadcast on Keshet 12. In September, she was awarded the title “Singer of the Year” in the annual Kaan Gimel Hebrew Hymn Parade. On March 7, 2021, Kirel released the single “Diamonds”, which was produced under the auspices of the jewelry company Royalty. In the same month, Kirel received the “Changing the Beauty Ideal” award for 2021 as part of the fashion week held in Tel Aviv. On July 14, 2021, Noa Kirel released her debut international single, “Please Don’t Suck”. Kirel was the most played artist on MTV Israel for the year 2015. On October 15, 2021, she released the single “Bad Little Thing” which she also performed at the Miss World 2021 ceremony. According to Spotify Israel playback data for 2021, Kirel is the second most balanced artist on the platform this year. On December 14, the single “Reashim” was released together with the singer Osher Cohen. Kirel was chosen as one of Globes Magazine’s People of the Year for 2021.In addition, she is the most played musician in 2021 on TikTok Israel. On January 12, 2022, she published the song “Thought About That”. On March 5, the single “Bell” featuring Itay Glo was released, which was released exclusively on TikTok Israel for the first week of its release. n May 27, she released her first single in the Spanish language, “Dale Promo”, together with Puerto Rican singer Metro de Savage and featuring Boaz Van Dee Beats. On June 1, Kirel released the single “Three Girls” together with Git Fisher for Pride Month. On June 28, she released the single “Release Me” together with Dolly and Penn and Peled. In June 2022, she began acting in the third season of the youth series “Palmah”. On July 25, the movie “I Love You Charlie” was
photo: instagram It’s been exactly one month since KAN announced that Noa Kirel was selected to represent Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023. However the tables turned really quickly, ’cause the day after Noa said she still had to decide if she was willing to do the job. Today the official news came out that Kirel will indeed wave the Israeli flag on the Eurovision stage! Kirel is a 21 year old singer, who often sings in Hebrew. Perhaps something we can look forward to for 2023. Noa has had many hits in Israel, with her biggest song being “מיליון דולר”.
Today, the sad news came to us that Dame Olivia Newton John passed away. The Dame was 73 years old. Olivia Newton-John was born in Cambridge, but the family moved to Australia when she was only 5 years old. She returned to the UK in the sixties. She had her first hits in 1971: “If not for you” became a huge hit in several countries, followed by “Banks of the Ohio”, which became a number 1 hit in Australia. As a good friend of Cliff Richard, she was interested in participating in the Eurovision Song Contest. In 1974 she represented the United Kingdom. Out of 6 songs, “Long live love” was chosen. She was not too happy with the choice of the British audience, who voted with postcards. However, Olivia was one of the hot favourites at the bookmakers. In the end, she became 4th. Shortly after the Eurovision Song Contest, Olivia moved to the USA. She scored no less than 5 number 1 hits, only in the years 1974 and 1975. Her worldwide breakthrough as an actress came in 1978, when she and John Travolta performed in the teenage movie “Grease”, a movie that became and still is an evergreen. The movie produced hits like “You’re the one that I want”, “Hopelessly devoted to you” and “Summer nights”. Another worldwide movie hit was “Xanadu”, two years after “Grease”. The title song was a world wide hit as well. After these two movies she scored a worldwide hit again, the song “Physical”: After “Physical” she kept on having hits, although it became more difficult for her to have worldwide top hits. The exception came in 1990, when she and John Travolta teamed up again to record the “Grease Megamix”. In total, Olivia Newton John released 26 albums, 6 live albums and several soundtracks. In 1992, Olivia had cancer for the first time. The cancer returned in 2013 and again in 2017. In 2019, Newton-John was knighted by Queen Elizabeth, including for her contribution to cancer research. Since then she was allowed to call herself Dame.
(Maria) Kalomira (Carol Sarantis) is a Greek-American artist. She was born and raised on Long Island, just outside New York. At the end of 2007, Heaven Music chose Kalomira to be their contestant in the 2008 National Final to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 held in Serbia Kalomira picked an R&B style upbeat song with a Greek feel, titled “Secret Combination” In the first semifinal, held on May 20, 2008, Kalomira fared well, coming in first place. At the Eurovision final, on May 24, she came in third behind Russia and Ukraine, with 218 points. Follow our Summer Party : Spotify and You Tube Photocredits: EBU
Charlotte Perrelli participated in the Eurovision Songcontest 1999 which was held in Israel. Representing Sweden, She came saw and conquered, winning the contest with 163 points. Follow our Summer Party: Youtube and Spotify
Tina Karol ( Tatjana Gregorjevna Liberman ) represented Ukraine at the Eurovision Songcontest 2006 in Athenes, Greece. She ended 7th, with 145 points. Follow our Summer Party: Spotify and You Tube
It’s La Zarra who is going to represent France in the Eurovision Song Contest. That was announced by French television on January 12th this year. Tonight, her Eurovision song “Évidemment” has been revealed. The song is written and composed by herself, her producer Ben Adam and KNY Factory, the same team that wrote her big hit “Tu t’en iras”. France will automatically perform in the final. You can listen to the song here:
Iru Kechanovi has won The Voice Georgia and thus will represent the country at the Eurovision Song Contest. The song, with which she will represent the country, will be presented later. Iru was coached by Dato Porchkhidze. She sang the Eurovision song “Euphoria” in the final. Iru gained 21,88% of the votes. The full results are: Iru Kechanovi, 21,88% Giorgi Datiashvili 15,72% Likuna Tutisani 13,76% Lika Siradze 13,73% Anka Tatarashvili 11,56% Tina Datikashvili 10,34% Tako Kakalashvili 10,9% Kakha Aslamazashvili 2,92%
photo: ORF A lot of Eurovision news comes in these days. This morning, radiostation Ö3 announced that Teya and Salena will represent Austria. The song, of which we don’t know the title yet, will be presented the 8th of March, International Women’s Day. Both Teya and Salena have some Eurovision experience. Salena did an attempt in the internal selection in 2019 and Teya in 2020. Under the name of Thea Devy, Teya took part in the 2020 Serbian national selection with the song “Sudnji dan”. Teya in the Serbian final in 2020. Salena in The Voice Germany in 2017. The
About Quick Facts NameFatima Zahra Hafdi Born25 August 1997 Nationality🇨🇦 Canadian National SelectionInternal selection 2023 In Eurovision2023 Liverpool SongÉvidemment (2023) Biography La Zarra, born in Montréal, is a Canadian-Moroccan singer. She remains very discreet about her origins and career. We know of her that she grew up near the city of Longueuil (in Quebec) and that she has North African origins. In 2016, she became known for an artistic collaboration with Niro on the song “Printemps blanc”. In 2021, the singer increases her notoriety with the title “Tu t’en iras”, which was broadcast regularly on radio and television. The song is
© EBU/Sarah Louise Bennett About Quick Facts NameNoya Kirel Born10 april 2001 Nationality🇮🇱 Israeli National SelectionInternal selection 2023 In Eurovision2023 TBA SongTBA (2023) Biography Noa Kirel was born and raised in Ra’anana. At the age of 10, she auditioned for the reality show “Music School” on Channel 2, but was not accepted. At the age of 13, she appeared in a commercial. Kirel’s musical career began in 2015 when she released a song called “Medabrim”, the song became a huge success after gaining many views. In the same year she released another song called “Killer”. The accompanying provocative video clip caused an uproar
photo: instagram It’s been exactly one month since KAN announced that Noa Kirel was selected to represent Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023. However the tables turned really quickly, ’cause the day after Noa said she still had to decide if she was willing to do the job. Today the official news came out that Kirel will indeed wave the Israeli flag on the Eurovision stage! Kirel is a 21 year old singer, who often sings in Hebrew. Perhaps something we can look forward to for 2023. Noa has had many hits in Israel, with her biggest song
Today, the sad news came to us that Dame Olivia Newton John passed away. The Dame was 73 years old. Olivia Newton-John was born in Cambridge, but the family moved to Australia when she was only 5 years old. She returned to the UK in the sixties. She had her first hits in 1971: “If not for you” became a huge hit in several countries, followed by “Banks of the Ohio”, which became a number 1 hit in Australia. As a good friend of Cliff Richard, she was interested in participating in the Eurovision Song Contest. In 1974 she represented the
(Maria) Kalomira (Carol Sarantis) is a Greek-American artist. She was born and raised on Long Island, just outside New York. At the end of 2007, Heaven Music chose Kalomira to be their contestant in the 2008 National Final to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 held in Serbia Kalomira picked an R&B style upbeat song with a Greek feel, titled “Secret Combination” In the first semifinal, held on May 20, 2008, Kalomira fared well, coming in first place. At the Eurovision final, on May 24, she came in third behind Russia and Ukraine, with 218 points. Follow our Summer Party
Charlotte Perrelli participated in the Eurovision Songcontest 1999 which was held in Israel. Representing Sweden, She came saw and conquered, winning the contest with 163 points. Follow our Summer Party: Youtube and Spotify
Tina Karol ( Tatjana Gregorjevna Liberman ) represented Ukraine at the Eurovision Songcontest 2006 in Athenes, Greece. She ended 7th, with 145 points. Follow our Summer Party: Spotify and You Tube