The Swedish candidate usually attracts a lot of attention. That’s because the Swedish preselection, Melodifestivalen, is watched by many people, also outside of Sweden. This year Tusse won. His actual name is Tousin Chiza. He was born in the DR Congo. 2 years ago he won the Swedish version of
For a long time, Russia was very secretive about the submission. In the end, Manizha’s “Russian woman” was chosen from a preliminary round with three songs. Manizha was born in Tajikistan but soon moved to Moscow. In addition to making music, she draws attention to feminism, LGBTI + rights and
Ana Soklič has been active as a singer since 2004. Initially she was performing under the flag of the project Diona Dimm. She also participated in EMA, the Slovenian preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest. In 2020 she had a final breakthrough in her own country. With her song “Voda”
The Roop is a three-man band from the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. They had previously participated in the Lithuanian preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest. Last year they won “Pabandom iš naujo!“. Their song “On fire” was one of the songs to beat in the international final, but unfortunately the party
James Newman was supposed to represent the United Kingdom last year with the song “My last breath”. The BBC was silent for a long time, but eventually announced that he will represent the UK with “Embers” this year. At that time Newman had already had a big international hit with
Swiss pop star Patrick Juvet has died at the age of 70. His manager announced this news today. Juvet was most famous in the 1970s after first being a fashion model. He released a total of 15 albums. A big hit in France was “La Musica” in 1972. One year
Blas Cantó once participated in the preselection of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. But for that we have to go back in time 17 years. Later he ended up in a real boy band, Auryn. Also with Auryn he did an attempt for Eurovision participation. In 2017 Blas Cantó started
Today it was announced that the government has decided to allow an audience at all 9 shows (live shows and dress rehearsals) of the Eurovision Song Contest 2021, under the Fieldlab framework. In recent months, the Eurovision team has worked hard on various (4) scenarios to allow the Eurovision to
Host country The Netherlands will be represented by Jeangu Macrooy this year. He would have participated last year and was immediately chosen by Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS to do the job in 2021. The song he will sing is called “Birth of a new age”.
It’s not as strange as you might think it is: a Danish name for an Italian band. Bassist Victoria De Angelis is half Danish.Måneskin has been active since 2016. The Italian rock band has made two albums so far, both of which reached number 1 in the Italian charts. It