Today, the EBU announced the Eurovision Song Contest running order for the first and second semifinal. Lithuania will open the first semifinal, while it will be closed by Malta. The second one will be opened by San Marino, while Denmark closes it. Here are the full running orders: 1st semifinal
Because the Eurovision Song Contest is approaching, we take a closer look at an entry every day. Today: France. Once Domenico Modugno sang it in Italian: “Volare”. Now there is Barbara Pravi who sings it in French: “Voila”. Barbara Pravi is actually called Barbara Pievic and has both Serbian and
The Eurovision Song Contest is coming up. That is why we take a closer look at an entry every day. We will start with the entries that have been directly placed for the final.Jendrik Sigwart is participating for Germany: an unknown singer, who is especially notable for his ukulele and
There will be no Belarusian entry in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest. After the EBU decided that the song “Ya nauchu tebya” by the band Galasy ZMesta did not comply with the rules, they got a new chance. The band submitted a new song. However, today the EBU came up
from left to right: Gerben Bakker, Getty Kaspers, Lenny Kuhr Six legendary former winners will be put in the spotlights again during the 65th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. Lenny Kuhr (1969), Teach-In (with Getty Kaspers, 1975), Sandra Kim (1986), Helena Paparizou (2005), Lordi (2006) and Måns Zelmerlöw (2015)
North Macedonian broadcaster MRT decided to investigate the participation of their singer Vasil in the contest. Today, the result of that investigation became known: Vasil can participate in the contest in Rotterdam. “Music wins”, Eurovision Macedonia stated in a tweet. On his Instagram Vasil replied: “RAY (ed nd ellow) ❤️????
“The Eurovision Song Contest will take place in the second half of May, with at least three TV shows and possibly adapted activities in the city of Rotterdam”, a spokesman of the organisation said today to news agency ANP. “The Eurovision song contest is a valuable opportunity for the event
As you all could read here there is a lot of opposition against Vasil’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest. Vasil came up with his own statement today: “I am a music ambassador, and in music there is no religion, politics, orientation, race or color. I had absolutely no intentions to hurt anybody. Quite the opposite! I am so proud of this project which not only embodies me, but my country and culture – musicians and featured artists in the gallery. I do not apologise for being me. I never will – I didn’t have a choice in that. However, if I hurt ANYBODY in ANY WAY, from the bottom of my heart … I am sorry. Forgive me.”
A storm came up when the video of the North Macedonian entry “Here I stand” appeared. In the video, the colors of the Bulgarian flag are shown. Vasil, the North Macedonian singer, is a member of the Bulgarian minority in North Macedonia. Many people in North Macedonia objected against Vasil as a participant. A petition was signed already 17.000 times.
Also Georgia has presented its song. Tornike Kipiani will sing “You”. The song was published today. Tornike was chosen to represent Georgia in the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest and was supposed to sing “Take me as I am”. We all know that didn’t happen. This year, Tornike will perform in the 2nd semifinal.