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Road to Rotterdam: Malta

Who says Destiny, says Eurovision. In 2015 she won the Junior Song Contest. In 2019 she gave vocal support to Maltese candidate Michela at the ESC. No one had any doubts that Destiny would win X-Factor Malta 2020, and with this victory the ticket to the Eurovision Song Contest. For

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Road to Rotterdam: Ukraine

Go_A is an electro folk band from Ukraine, consisting of Kateryna, Taras, Ihor and Ivan. In December 2012 they made their first song. It took a while before they could release their first album, but it happened in 2016. The group also released four singles.Last year Go_A won the Ukrainian

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Road to Rotterdam: Azerbaijan

Samira Efendi, as her full name is, was supposed to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest last year. She was  singing about a strong woman, “Cleopatra”. The song she sings this year is an extension of the subject. It is about the Dutch master spy Mata Hari. Someone has sung

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Road to Rotterdam: Romania

Roxen was supposed to represent Romania last year with “Alcohol you”. The choice for Roxen, without a preselection with multiple artists, was due to the number 1 hit she had in Romania in November 2019.Roxen is 21 years old. In her short career she released several singles that were successful

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Road to Rotterdam: Israel

Eden Alene won the national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest in Israel last year. The Ethiopian-Israeli singer would then sing “Feker libi”, a song with a title in Amharic, the language of Ethiopia. When it became known that the Eurovision song contest was canceled, she was told about it

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Road to Rotterdam: Belgium

It was a big surprise when, sometime in 2019, it was announced that Hooverphonic would be representing Belgium. A group with an enormous track record since 1996. The group had a new female singer, so that worked out well. Meanwhile, that singer, Luka Cruysberghs, has had to make way for

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Duncan Laurence’s “Arcade” enters Billboard hot 100

It’s quite unique: a Eurovision song enters the American Billboard hot 100. Duncan Laurence’s “Arcade” will be on this weeks charts at no. 100. That is after the song became popular on the app Tik-Tok and Duncan Laurence’s performance on the Ellen show last week. Duncan Laurence is not the

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Road to Rotterdam: Croatia

Her full name is Albina Grčić, but she leaves her last name at home for the occasion. She participated in the X-Factor but withdrew when she was allowed to continue only as part of a girl group. At The Voice Hrvatska she did better: she reached no less than a

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Road to Rotterdam: Norway

A special act is “Fallen angel”, the Norwegian contribution for the Eurovision Song Contest. Tix chose his name because he suffered from Gilles de la Tourette and therefore had tics. He won the Norwegian national final dressed as an angel with a number of demons around him.

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Road to Rotterdam: Cyprus

Cyprus thanked Sandro Nicolas, who would participate in 2020, for services rendered. Instead, they teamed up with Athens-born Elena Tsagrinou.That was not without any struggle. The Orthodox Church protested against the song “El diablo”. A declaration of love to the devil was not done they said, and they even demanded

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