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Elena Gheorghe(Romania) Invited by Andrey Malakhov to a Big Live TV Show Friday Night at Channel One in Moscow

Posted 14 May, 2009 - 15:29 by Istrati Ciprian...

On Friday night at 23:00 (Moscow time), Elena Gheorghe, the Romanian representative at Eurovision 2009, will participate in a special TV show organised by Channel One Television. The show will be transmitted live from Ostankino TV Center Studios.

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Video: Elena sings Whitney Houston's One Moment In Time

Posted 8 May, 2009 - 12:36 by Charlotte Jensen

At her second press conference today Romanian Elena demonstrated that she can do higher notes at as well when she sang Whitney Houston's One Moment In Time.

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Video: Romania's first rehearsal

Posted 4 May, 2009 - 16:45 by John Stanton

Elena will be singing about the Balkan girls in the semi-final on the 12th. Today she had her first rehearsal.

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Elena, the Most Recent Bride in Eurovision Song Contest

Posted 23 April, 2009 - 12:13 by Istrati Ciprian...

In the second week of April, Romanians were surprised to see in print several photos of Elena, their representative in ESC 2009, dressed as a bride.

She appeared on the cover of the "Ideal Marriage" magazine, wearing a white wedding dress and having an attitude reminiscent of the one in the videoclip of her ESC song, The Balkan Girls. Actually, this attitude made the editing team name Elena as 'The Worrior Bride'. Despite this, Elena confesses to the readers that she would like it very much if she were more indifferent.

EBU Reveals Jury Details

Posted 10 April, 2009 - 23:22 by Steve Paxton

Having previously announced that the public televote will be combined by a jury vote, the EBU have now announced details of how this new system will work.

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2009ro Elena Gheorghe - The Balkan Girls

Posted 9 April, 2009 - 21:52 by Serkan Uluçay

Elena will be representing Romania at the 2009 Eurovision Song
Contest with this song called The Balkan Girls. Last year Romania qualified for
the final where they finished 20th.

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Visions of the Qualifiers – First Semifinal

Posted 8 April, 2009 - 00:33 by Steve Paxton

2009 Eurovision Song Contest 1st semi final © EBU

It’s almost here! Very soon, the delegations will arrive in Moscow and rehearsals will begin for the 54th Eurovision Song Contest. The question on everyone’s lips is who will be celebrating participation in the final, and who will stomp off in a huff?

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ROMANIA: Elena Gheorghe Releases Video for the Final Version of "The Balkan Girls"

Posted 16 March, 2009 - 02:01 by Istrati Ciprian...

Immediately after she won the big Final in Romania, Elena Gheorghe and her team were prepared for intense rehearsals for the Moscow choreography and for The Balkan Girls video. Together with the TVR and CAT Music Production, they filmed the video for her song, The Balkan Girls.

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Elena Gheorghe Will Bring "The Balkan Girls" to Moscow

Posted 1 February, 2009 - 06:24 by Istrati Ciprian...

Romania has decided that Elena Gheorghe will represent Romania at Eurovision 2009 in Moscow after she managed to conquer both the public and the jury. Elena was second in the televoters preferences, but she was able to overcome the girls from Blaxy Girls with the points that she received from the specilist jury.