Eurovision Song Contest 2016

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SWITZERLAND: Rykka - The Last of Our Kind

The Bodensee Arena in Kreuzlingen hosted the Swiss national selection for Stockholm, Die Grosse Entscheidungsshow. Six acts performed not only their competing entry but one more cover song to show their musical versatility and live performing abilities. In the end, Rykka won the show in a combined vote of the televoters and an expert jury. The decision was jointly taken by a 50/50 combination of televoting and the verdict of a 10-member expert jury. She will sing The Last Of Our Kind in Stockholm. Rykka (29) was born in Vancouver, Canada, where she grew up in a very musical family. Her real name is Christina Rieder and her forefathers are Swiss. In Canada Rykka went to a music school and, for a long time, toured the country as a street musician. Meanwhile she has also recorded a few albums. Right now the versatile artist lives in a farm house close to Zurich, Switzerland, together with her husband, five fellow housmates, cat Charlie and a flock of sheep.

 

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BELGIUM: Laura Tesoro - What's the Pressure

The national final of Belgium for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest, Eurosong, took place at the AED Studios in Lint on 17 January 2016, hosted by Peter Van de Veire. The show featured five young artists competing, and Laura Tesoro turned out to be the winner, and will sing What's The Pressure in Stockholm. Laura Tesoro (born 19 August 1996 in Flanders) is a Belgian singer and actress. She is also known for portraying Charlotte on the Flemish soap opera Familie, and placing second on season three of The Voice van Vlaanderen.

 

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DENMARK: Lighthouse X - Soldiers of Love

Lighthouse X have won the Danish national selection, Dansk Melodi Grand Prix, and will represent Denmark in the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm with the song Soldiers Of Love. The 46th edition of Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2016 was a spectacular event featuring Sweden's Eurovision Song Contest winner from 2012, Loreen, who performed Euphoria live on-stage. Lighthouse X (pronounced "Lighthouse Ten") is a Danish pop group with a special social profile consisting of Søren Bregendal, Johannes Nymark and Martin Skriver. The band was formed with the goal of helping people who face challenges in their lives. They work as ambassadors of three different non-profit organizations who also receive a percentage of the groups profit.

 

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GEORGIA: Nika Kocharov & Young Georgian Lolitaz - Midnight Gold

The TV viewers and an international expert jury have jointly decided: The Georgian entry in the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest will be Midnight Gold! It will be sung by Nika Kocharov & Young Georgian Lolitaz, who had been internally selected to represent the country in Stockholm. Mainstream of avant-garde, that's how Nika Kocharov & Young Georgian Lolitaz characterize their own music, which will not leave even the most critical lovers of music indifferent. The Beatles, Nirvana, Beck, Radiohead, Vladimir Nabokov - all served as sources of inspiration for Young Georgian Lolitaz. The band passed through a years-long phase when their music was influenced and formed its own uncompromising style. Today Young Georgian Lolitaz is a brand on the Georgian stage.

 

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According to early rumors, it's Laurent Amir Khlifa Khedider Haddad who will represent France this year (his scene name is simply Amir)

it won't be this song but it's his new single (He's from The Voice-France)

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Well..it's now official... it's him and it will be THIS song !

 

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Entry for the Netherlands: Douwe Bob with a song called Slow down:

 

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ISRAEL: Hovi Star - Made of Stars

After a long season of auditions, duels, eliminations and plenty of sob stories, Israel finally staged the final of The Next Star for Eurovision 2016 on Thursday evening. Four acts sang, but in the end it was Hovi Star who emerged as the winner, earning the right to sing for Israel at Eurovision 2016. Hovi Star (real name: Hovi Sekulets) won with his take on “Made of Stars”. The lyrics and music come from Doron Medalie, who also wrote “Golden Boy” in 2015.

 

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THE NETHERLANDS: Douwe Bob - Slow Down

Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS announced today Douwe Bob will represent The Netherlands at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm with the song Slow Down. According to Douwe, the song is a call to slow down the pace of life and a response to today's performance-oriented society. Douwe Bob (23) was born and raised in an Amsterdam artists' family. In 2012 he was voted The Best Singer-Songwriter in the Netherlands. In 2013 he took the Dutch music scene by storm with his début album Born In A Storm and the hit Multicoloured Angels. In May 2015 Douwe released his second album, Pass It On, which reached number one in the Dutch album charts.

 

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RUSSIA: Sergey Lazarev - You are the only one

Sergey Lazarev, who was announced as Russia‘s act for Stockholm back in December, has finally unveiled his song for Eurovision. In a presentation by Russian broadcaster VGTRK, Sergey’s song was revealed to be “You Are The Only One”. The song was produced by Eurovision veteran Philipp Kirkorov who assembled a dream team of music professionals to work on Sergey’s entry, including songwriter Dimitris Kontopoulos and choreographer Fokas Evangelinos. The music video features Sergey and Miss Russia 2015 Vladislava Evtushenko. A lot of money has been put into that, y’all!

 

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MONTENEGRO: Highway - The Real Thing

In last night's special TV broadcast live from Bečići, the Montenegrin pop-rock band Highway has introduced its entry The Real Thing for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm. For the first time, Montenegro's public broadcaster RTCG aired the official video for the song composed and written by Skansi, Luka Vojvodić and Maro Market. Highway consists of a lead singer Petar Tošić, guitarists and back-up singers Marko Pešić and Luka Vojvodić, and keyboardist Bojan Jovović. Skansi, who wrote the song for the band Highway believes that the guys are “quite brave” for going to Sweden with this kind of song. “It’s not going to be easy, but I think they deserve our support.”

 

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Bosnian entry was already posted but did you know that the guy from the duet (Deen, who didn't age very well and did some plastic job which makes him look even older) already represented Bosnia in 2004. Here is his performance. Have you ever seen anything gayer

 

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Bosnian entry was already posted but did you know that the guy from the duet (Deen, who didn't age very well and did some plastic job which makes him look even older) already represented Bosnia in 2004. Here is his performance.

Yes, I know and I mentioned that in my post:''Singer Deen is no stranger to the Eurovision Song Contest having represented his country in 2004 in Istanbul achieving 9th place with In The Disco.''

Have you ever seen anything gayer

What about this one!?



1:50 "I'm sure, this is not channel 4!" Good old Terry Wogan!

 

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ESTONIA: Jüri Pootsmann - Play

Jüri Pootsmann has won the final of Eesti Laul, Estonia's national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, with the song Play. After a first round of voting by both jury and the public, three acts proceeded to the Super Final. In the second round it was all up to the televoters who chose Jüri Pootsmann as the winner. Jüri Pootsmann (born 1 July 1994), is an Estonian singer. He won the sixth season of Eesti otsib superstaari (Estonia is Searching for a Superstar).

 

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POLAND: Michał Szpak - Color Of Your Life

Last night, it was a spectacular show with nine outstanding acts in Poland. Michał Szpak, who was one of hot favourites among Eurovision fans, won the Polish national final with his ballad Color of Your Life! Michał started singing when he was nine years old. As a student Michał was part of the band Whiplash that plays mostly hard rock. In addition to his musical accomplishments with Whiplash, Michał released his first album Byle być sobą. In 2011 Michal Szpak participated in the Orange Warsaw Festival along with such artists as Moby, Skunk Anansie, My Chemical Romance and others. In the same year Michał participated in the Polish TV talent show X Factor where he came second in the final.

 

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ARMENIA: Iveta Mukuchyan - LoveWave

Iveta Mukuchyan will represent Armenia in the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest with her deeply emotional song LoveWave. Iveta Mukuchyan (born 14 October 1986) is an Armenian singer, model and actress, who grew up in Hamburg, Germany. LoveWave is based on Iveta's inner world struggles and personal emotions, as she explains: "I wanted to sing about a feeling we all know and crave for. A feeling that creates and destroys, empowers and weakens, rips and completes. A feeling out of space and time, that is unpredictable as an ocean and powerful as a wave. A feeling that is worth fighting for. Love."

 

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ROMANIA: Ovidiu Anton - Moment of silence

Romanian rocker Ovidiu Anton has defeated five other competing acts in the final of this year's Romanian national selection and will represent the country in the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm with the song Moment Of Silence. This was his fifth attempt to win Selecţia Naţionala and this time he succeeded. In comparing to the national selections in previous years, the winner of 2016 Selecţia Naţionala was chosen through public televoting only. Whilst Romania is yet to score a victory in the Eurovision Song Contest, it has qualified to every single Grand Final since the current Semi-Final system was introduced more than 10 years ago.

 

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ALBANIA: Eneda Tarifa – Përrallë

The first entry of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest has been chosen in the final of Albania's Festivali i Këngë in December 2015. Out of 22 entries, which had qualified in two semi-finals on the preceding nights, an expert jury chose Eneda Tarifa. She will fly the Albanian flag in Stockholm with the song Përrallë, which translates as Fairytale love. Eneda Tarifa (born 30 March 1982 in Tirana, Albania) already participated in the Albanian national selections for the 2004 and 2008 Eurovision Song Contest.

 

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F.Y.R. Macedonia: Kaliopi - Dona

Kaliopi, this year's representative of F.Y.R. Macedonia, premiered her Eurovision entry in a special show broadcast on MKRTV last night. Dona is an inspiring ballad with uptempo refrains, full of feelings and emotions. It is the collaboration of Kaliopi and her musical partner Romeo Grill. Romeo has written the music, set the arrangement as well as the musical production of the song. And Kaliopi has written the lyrics of Dona. In 2012, the singer represented F.Y.R. Macedonia in Baku and reached 13th place with her powerful rock ballad Crno i belo in the Grand Final.

 

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CROATIA: Nina Kraljić - Lighthouse

Yesterday Croatian public broadcaster HRT has premiered Lighthouse, the entry that Nina Kraljić will perform in Stockholm, on its public radio programme HR 2. The song was written by Andreas Grass and Nikola Paryla from Austria, and it was produced by Thorsten Brötzmann in Germany. The song will be included on Nina's first album, which will be released by Universal Music. Nina is best known for winning season one of The Voice – Najljepši glas Hrvatske last year. Croatia has skipped the last two editions of the Eurovision Song Contest. Now they are back in the competition with Nina Kraljić - in the very year Croatian Radio celebrates its 90th anniversary, and Croatian Television its 60th.

 

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SAN MARINO: Serhat - I Didn't Know

Serhat, the singer who will represent San Marino in this year's contest has premiered the song I Didn't Know at a press conference held yesterday at the Grand Hotel Intercontinental in Paris. The Sammarinese entry appears likely to be the most multinational participant of this year's contest. Serhat fully represents the new Europe: Turkish born with a German education in his home city Istanbul; he has much experience in Germany, Greece and France, and to represent San Marino is another of his artistic career challenges.