While in Andorra on their promotion tour Elnur and Samir took some time to answer a few questions for us. They are touring a lot to try and ensure a good result for the country’s debut entry. You will be the first Azerbaijani participant at Eurovision. Do you feel any pressure because of that? Elnur:… Read more
Spain has chosen Rodolfo Chikilicuatre’s ‘Baila el chiki chiki’ (dance the chiki chiki). Rodolfo has a comedy programme on La Sexta, a commercial Spainish TV station. Internet voters picked five of the submitted entries that will take part in last night’s final. Another five songs were picked by an expert jury. Through televoting, the Spanish audience decided who will… Read more
The semi final of Dora 2008, the Croatian national selection for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest took place on Friday 22 February. 14 songs were presented in the show and the top six were chosen by televoting to join the ten pre-qualified songs in the national final Saturday evening. The result: Kraljevi ulice & 75… Read more
Friday 15th February, TRT presented their song for Eurovision 2008 for the first time. The song is ‘Deli’ (Crazy) and is currently in the Turkish language. Mor ve Ötesi, the soft rock metal band, is participating to the Eurovision 2008 with a rock song in the Turkish language. The band is most popular among the younger… Read more
Azerbaijan has selected Elnur as their first representative on the Eurovision Song Contest stage. After the Swiss vampires didn’t survive the 2007 semi-final, Azerbaijan tries the same theme again hoping that angels might keep them alive. Elnur Guseynov will represent Azerbaijan in Eurovision 2008 in Serbia. Elnur Huseynov was born on March 3, 1987 in… Read more
Turkey is attending with a rock band that’s popular with the young generation. mor ve ötesi was established in January of 1995 by Kerem Kabadayi (drums), Harun Tekin (vocals/guitar), Derin Esmer (vocals/guitar) and Alper Tekin (bass) – four close high school friends – in Istanbul, Turkey. Their first album ‘Sehir’ was recorded and mixed between… Read more