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Spain: Benidorm-Fest continues (UPDATE)

Finally the moment has come: the pretentious Spanish National Final Benidorm-Fest will have continue. The show starts at 22.40 CET and you can watch it here. Seven songs were supposed to be performed in both semifinals. Note that From both semifinals the top-4 will go through to the final upcoming

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Spain: Benidorm-Fest is going to start! (UPDATE)

Finally the moment has come: the pretentious Spanish National Final Benidorm-Fest will have it’s start. The show starts at 22.40 CET and you can watch it here. Seven songs were supposed to be performed in both semifinals. However, Luna Ki decided to withdraw as Spanish tv, RTVE, didn’t allow her

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Allocation draw: these are the semifinals

From the Madama Palace in Turin, the allocation draw took place this afternoon. The draw was hosted by Carolina Di Domenico and Gabriele Corsi. During the ceremony, mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb (Rotterdam) handed over the key of the Eurovision City to his Turinese colleague Stefano Lo Russo. The semifinals will be

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Norway: 2nd semifinal Melodi Grand Prix (update)

Tonight is the night of 2nd semifinal of the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix. You can follow the show here and here. It starts at 19.50 CET. Two times two songs will have a duel; both the winning songs will compete for 1 ticket to the final. One other song, that goes directly

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Lithuania: 3rd round of Pabandom iš Naujo! (update)

Tonight the Lithuanian national final heats “Pabandom iš Naujo!” will continue with it’s 3rd heat. You can watch it here and here at 20.00 CET. 12 songs will compete; six out of them will go to one of the semifinals. The songs are: Basas Pegasas, “Ponai” Rūta Loop, “Call me from the

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Eurovision 2022: the sound of beauty

Tonight EBU and RAI revealed the slogan and the logo of the2022 Eurovision Song Contest in Turin.  After “Dare to dream”, “Open up” and “Open up again”, the new slogan will be “The sound of beauty”. More details are not revealed yet, but will be revealed together with the staging

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Armando Gama

In memoriam: Armando Gama

Sad news again: yesterday, january 17th, Armando Gama passed away. Armando Gama represented Portugal in th 1983 Eurovision Song Contest. He reached the 13th place. Armando Gama was a Portuguese singer-songwriter, musician  and baritone opera singer. Gama grew up in Angola and lived there until the age of 17. Upon

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Carmela Corren passed away

Today we’ve received the sad news that Israeli singer Carmela Corren passed away. Corren, whose real name was Carmela Bizman, was born in Tel Aviv in 1938. In the sixties she built up a career in the German speaking countries. In 1962 she took part in the German national final

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Lithuania: 2nd round of Pabandom iš Naujo (update)

Tonight the Lithuanian national final heats “Pabandom iš Naujo!” will continue with it’s 2nd heat. You can watch it here and here at 20.00 CET. 11 songs will compete; six out of them will go to one of the semifinals. The songs are: Clockwork Creep, “Grow” Justė Kraujelytė, “How to get my life

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