Eurovision Song Contest News: 07/27/07

Friday, July 27, 2007

New Wave 2007: The results after first day of the competition

Two unforgettable concerts could be watched by the audience in the "Dzintari" concert hall on July, 26.

The program called "Boys' party" made the first part of the show. Alla Pugacheva sang before the concert program of the "Boys' party". Alexander Serov, Igor Nikolaev, Gianni Fiorellino, Valery Leontiev, Sergey Lazarev, Philip Kirkorov, Mike Mironenko, Valery Meladze, Leonid Agutin, Vladimir Presnyakov, Intars Busulis, Lev Leshchenko and the chorus of the "Boys' party" performed afterwards.

Then a special part of the concert began - it was the first day of participants' performances!

The young artists sang world-famous hits.

The highest mark given by the jury was 11.

As a result the contestants received the following marks for their performances:

1-"Barselona" - 106

2- Erglis - 103

3- Marina - 100

4- Polina Smolova - 100

5 - Natalia Gordienko - 100

6- Masha Novikova - 98

7- Francisca - 98

8- Anastasia Kochetkova - 97

9- Alessandro - 95

10 -"Rin`Go" - 95

11- Kostas Martakis - 94

12- Vasily Lazarovich - 94

13- Chioma - 93

14- Natasha Vinokurova - 93

15- Kate - 92

16- Issa Samer - 91

17- Eleonora - 89

18- Mihai - 81

source: newwavestars.com

Read the live report

New Wave 2007 - Casting of lots - video

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.

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Oikotimes.com in collaboration with Eurovision Cyprus site will cover the event exclusively for the web so stay tuned

Formal opening of the "New Wave 2007" competition

The formal opening of the Sixth international competition of young singers of popular music took place in the "Dzintari" concert hall late on July,25.

Stars came in exotic cars before the beginning of the concert program. The audience of the concert hall greeted their idols: Alla Pugacheva, Philip Kirkorov, Igor Krutoy, Raymond Pauls, Christina Orbakaite and many others were among the guests.

After all the stars had gone along the red carpet, the audience could watch the opening ceremony. "I proclaim the "New Wave" competition opened!" - the Muse of the contest Alla Pugacheva said. The audience welcomed the co-members of the jury Raymond Pauls and Igor Krutoy with a standing ovation.

Lera, Ksenia Sobchak, Sergey Lazarev and Pavel Volya conducted the concert program.

Such celebrities as Alla Pugacheva, Michael Bolton, Valery Leontiev, Sofia Rotaru, Filip Kirkorov, Valeria, "Diskoteka Avaria", Sergey Lazarev, Vladimir Vinokur and sisters Tolmachevs, Dima Bilan, Nikolay Baskov performed before the audience.

Not only did the masters of the ceremony invite the stars to sing, but they also asked them to define the serial number of contestants' performances on the first day of the competition.

The casting of lots on the first day of the "New Wave" contest has become traditional. This time a ship with red canvas was the key object of the procedure. The celebrities took a number from the vessel and announced the number of a contestsnt's performance.

When it turned out that Nastya Kochetkova was the 13-th to perform, Alla Pugacheva said: "Good luck, Nastya!"

First picture of Serebro

Verka the "Ukrainian Cinderella" 2nd in Finnish charts

esctoday.com reports:

This year's Ukrainian Eurovision Song Contest representative may be suffering from deja vu this week, after reaching 2nd place in Finland for a second time this year!

After finishing behind Serbia's Marija Serifovic at the Eurovision Song Contest, the crazy charactrer from Ukraine has entered finland's music charts... at number 2!

Verka's Eurovision Song Contest entry, Dancing lasha tumbai was released last week and was pipped to the number one spot by local act Tea with their song Tytöt tykkää. T

The Eurovision Song Contest entry is proving a more commercially successful song than the competition winner, Marija Serifovic and her entry, Molitva.

Helena Paparizou (2005) in Sweden

Eurovision Cyprus reports:

Helena Paparizou, is now in Sweden for her Summer Holidays in her home land. Also recording new songs. As she says, "I donΆt want to work this year in Athens stages, because I want to relax, from Eurovision 2005 I am always on foot".

Ruslana in protective gear of security staff

ruslana.com.ua reports:

On 16 July fifteen carriages of a train with highly poisonous yellow phosphorus derailed in the region of L’viv. Six of them caught fire.

Ruslana (2004) went to the location of emergency.

"In my estimation, the staff at the location of the accident is working professionally and well-organized. I went there out of different reasons. First of all to get information about the situation first-hand. The second reason is connected with the major Ukrainian-Polish project, devoted to the Euro 2012. I am a co-organizer of the event on the Ukrainian side. Within the frames of the event meetings of the delegations of the Ukrainian and Polish football federations are being held, and on 22 July a major cultural event will take place, a joint concert of stars from both countries. The third reason - many friends of mine live in the area and I would like to support them."

Environmental awareness for Sakis Rouvas (2004)

oikotimes.com reports:

Sakis Rouvas, who represented Greece in 2004 and was the co-host of the Eurovision edition held in Athens in 2006, points out the importance of creating a strong environmental awareness.

A series of events has been organised by "Act" company in order to promote the need for people to be environmentally aware. Sakis Rouvas had a live concert on July 20 in respect of these events, where he sung many of his hits, as well as a new version of his latest success "Ola gyro su girizun" ("Everything spins around you").

The events will continue until July 27.

ERT launched EDC website

ERT launched a website for the Eurovision Dance Contest at http://eurovision.ert.gr/dance where you can find out the latest information.

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Lordi Goes From Zeroes to Heroes

Last year, Lordi, a Finnish group whose members costume themselves as literal monsters of rock, got exposure on a slew of cable-news channels after winning the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest — the de facto World Cup of tunesmithing, which has been around for more than half a century.

Not that all of the coverage was flattering. On MSNBC, for instance, Countdown host Keith Olbermann played the triumph as a joke during his defiantly daffy "Oddball" segment. Still, Olbermann did acknowledge that the "guy singing has got more talent in one rotting corpse finger than that Taylor what's-his-face has in his entire body."

The vocalist in question is Mr. Lordi, and he admits that the band's Eurovision odyssey was bizarre even by his standards. When the Lordi song "Hard Rock Hallelujah" (included on the Arockalypse CD) was chosen as Finland's official Eurovision entry, controversy erupted. Finnish leaders were asked to veto the selection, but according to Mr. Lordi, "They said there was nothing they could do [because] it's a fucking song contest!"

New Wave 1st day winners are Barcelona; Greece ranked 8th

The first day marked by voting after each contestant performed.

Ukrainian participants Barcelona ranked 1st this afternoon while Greece ranked 8th. Romania's Mihai Traistariu also ranked low.

Read the live report of the first day of New Wave Festival.

Oikotimes.com in collaboration with Eurovision Cyprus site will cover the event exclusively for the web so stay tuned.

You can listen to the songs and vote for your fav here

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