Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Video - Dima Bilan - Number one fan

On 12 July on MTV was the premiere of the newest Dima's video "Number one fan"

The shooting took place in London in the middle of June. The director of it is the leading British master – Trudy Belinger, who is famous by her works for Sugarbabes, Kate Moss ,Girls Aloud, Sophie Ellis Bexton and other top English artists.

It was the very first experience of working with Russian artists for her and the results were satisfying both for her and for the super professional crew who were cast specially for Trudy.

The choreographer was Paul Roberts who worked with Enrique Iglesias, Sugarbabes, Blue, Paula Abdul. The leading make-up artist and stylists of such brends as Prada, Louis Vuitton and Gucci were in charge for the artists’ appearance.

Oksana Lavrentieva, who is known to the audience by the video «Nevozmozhnoe vozmozhno», got the main role. There were passionate dances in the shower, crowds of the paparazzi following the main characters in the video. Also there were street dances in which Dima’s crew, 8 British dancers and 150 company-keepers from London took part.


Enjoy the video!!!





Dima Bilan - Number One Fan







Source:
Dima Bilan Official Website
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Georgia launches Junior Eurovision Song Contest official site

After the withdrawal of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia first time in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest have launched the official site to inform the public of the process for the selection of their representantives to the contest.
The site is both in Georgian and English and it can be accessed here.

Mihai Traistariu at Grammy Awards 2008?


Mihai Traistariu the Romanian representative of the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 is now closer to an American career more than ever, especially because his manager is negotiating with Harord Wellington, a very well known American manager, for Mihai to perform live at the Grammy Awards 2008.
The chances are high because the Americans have already shown interested in Mihai’s voice and performance as the artist himself stated in a recent interview:
“It is very possible to see me in the Grammy Awards in February next year. My manager Mr. Catalin Moraru discussed about this with Mr Harold Wellington. Harold is a manager from Portugal, very famous all over the world having connections with the international music business. Travelling throughout Europe, he just made a stop in Bucharest and talked about it with Catalin, my manager.”
The Grammy Awards will take place on the 10th of February in the Staples Center stadium in Los Angeles California.
The nominations will be announced 2 months before the Awards and Mihai is very possible to be in the “Newcomer” category. If Mihai does participate, he will be the only Romanian artist that will have the chance to sing with Mariah Carey and Celine Dion.
Mihai is now in Jurmala, Latvia representing Romania at the International Competition New Wave 2007.

The order of contestants' performance at New Wave festival

On 21 July was held the first casting of lots in one of Latvian golf-clubs "Venturi" where the order of contestants' performances on the second day of the contest program was determined.

According to the rules of the casting of lots, every contestant had to hit a ball into a hole on the golf course.

A ball with a number that signifies the index number of performance was hidden inside of each hole.

Alessandro from Italy began the game accompanied by a storm of applause by those watching the spectacular sight and hit the ball into a hole where number 7 was hidden.

The casting of lots marathon was afterwards continued by other contestants with incredible excitement: some of them could hit the ball into a hole only after striking seven or eight times, whereas others were especially good at learning to master a club.

For instance, Anastasia Kochetkva from Russia, Kate from the Czech Republic and Kostas Martakis from Greece could get their balls with numbers in three strokes!

A photo gallery you can see here

After the impromptu game of golf was over, the contestants were invited to an open-air buffet-dinner.

Igor Malyshkov, the owner of the golf club delivered the 18 contestants presents and souvenirs on behalf of the club.According to the results of the casting of lots, the order of contestants' performances on the second day of the competition is as follows:

1 - "Rin`Go" (Kazakhstan)

2 - Issa Samer (Czech Republic)

3- Polina Smolova (Belarus - Eurovision 2006, semifinal)

4- Eleonora (Georgia)

5 - Vasiliy Lazarovich (Ukraine)

6 - Chioma (USA)

7 - Alessandro (Italy)

8 - "Barselona" duo - Vladimir Tkachenko and Galina Gavrilko (Ukraine)

9 - Erglis (Latvia -Eurovision 2007 - Bonaparti.lv)

10 - Francisca (Germany)

11- Marina - (Poland)

12- Anastasia Kochetkova (Russia)

13- Kate (Czech Republic)

14- Kostas Martakis (Greece)

15- Natalia Gordienko (Moldova - Eurovision 2006, duo with Arsenium)

16- Masha Novikova (Russia)

17- Natalia Vinokurova (Russia)

18 - Mihai Traistariu (Roumania - Eurovision 2006)

photo:Dinara Nikiforova/meeting.lv

Source of news: New Wave 2007