Kalomoira singing and dancing a Greek song at "O data-n viata" show at TVR1
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Kalomoira at "TEO live show" at Prima TV - interview
Kalomoira - "Secret Combination" at TEO live show
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Kalomoira at "Razvan & Dani" show with "Secret Combination"
Kalomoira at "Razvan & Dani" show - interview
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Kalomoira and her song "Secret Combination" were warmly welcomed in the Romanian capital of Bucharest, where the Greek delegation will be staying until Sunday.
The people of Romania have a particular soft spot for the Greek music, as it is widely heard on radio, clubs and mysic shows...
Kalomoira and the Greek delegation were warmly welcomed in Bucharest, where they have been there since Thursday evening.
Teeming with TV shows, the Romanian television hosted Kalomoira in almost all tv channels, both the state-run television and the private ones.
Starting as early as 8am on Friday, Kalomoira performed this year's Greek ESC entry "Secret Combination" at the morning tv show "Neatza cu Razvan si Dani" and the popular "Tonomatul DP2." She then gave a Press conference.
Her agenda also included an appearance at the "Teo live show," where Greece's representative performed in front of several ESC fans. However, it was her participation in the night show "O data in viata," by far the most popular show of the Romanian television, that was a great success, as guests had really packed both the studio and the surrounding place.
In fact, wearing T-shirts with the Greek delegation's logo on, the people not only gave their warmest applause to the Greek pop singer, but they went really mad when she started singing Greek songs!
On Saturday morning, Kalomoira gave interviews to two radio stations, while later on she met with Nico and Vlad Mirita, Romania's 2008 ESC entrants.
Watch Kalomoira at "Razvan & Dani" show
Watch Kalomoira at "Tonomatul DP2"
Watch Kalomoira at "TEO live show"
Watch Kalomoira at "O data-n viata" show
TradeArabia.com reports:
Singing sensation Dima Bilan, who has made a huge impact on the Russian and global music scene, is gearing up for his debut performance in Dubai.
Dima Bilan, will perform his first live solo concert in the region on Thursday at Madinat Jumeirah Arena.
"Dima Bilan will wow Dubai’s music fans with his energetic set including performances of his international hit songs; "Never Let You Go", and "Number One Fan", as well as his latest hit song "Believe", produced in colaboration with Grammy winning American record producer, composer, rapper and singer, Timbaland", said the organisers.
"I like to radiate real energy in all my performances, an element that I know will ensure the Dubai crowd gets totally absorbed in the concert." said Dima Bilan.
As the selected artist to represent Russia in the MTV Europe Music Awards in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2006, Dima is no novice when it comes to representing his country having been the runner up in Eurovision 2006 and will look to go one better in Eurovision 2008 with his hit song "Believe".
Read full article HERE
Eurovision.ert.gr reports:
Upon the completion of the video clip of "Secret Combination", the first two legs of Kalomoira's promo tour have been decided.
The Greek performer will be visiting Azerbaijan from 22 to 26 March, and Bucharest, Romania from 27 to 30 March.
The Azerbaijani and Romanian entrants have already visited Greece. Invited as guests to the Greek national final, they presented their songs.
Kalomoira is expected to appear in television shows, give interviews and unveil her... secret combination to the ESC fans of the two countries. And this is just the beginning, as the rest legs of her promo tour are to be announced shortly.
The running oder for the first semifinal:
1.Montenegro
2.Israel
3.Estonia
4.Moldova
5.San Marino
6.Belgium
7.Azerbaijan
8.Slovenia
9.Norway
10.Poland
11.Ireland
12.Andorra
13.Bosnia & Herzegovina
14.Armenia
15.Netherlands
16.Finland
17.Romania
18.Russia
19.Greece
The running order for the second semifinal:
1.Iceland
2.Sweden
3.Turkey
4.Ukraine
5.Lithuania
6.Albania
7.Switzerland
8.Czech Republic
9.Belarus
10.Latvia
11.Croatia
12.Bulgaria
13.Denmark
14.Georgia
15.Hungary
16.Malta
17.Cyprus
18.F.Y.R. Macedonia
19.Portugal
For the final:
2. UK
4. Germany
22. Spain
23. Serbia
Nico and Vlad Mirita have shot the videoclip of the Romanian Eurovision entry "Pe-o margine de lume".
The location was chosen by the director of the video, Petre Nastase on the Black Sea Beach.
Nico and Vlad - Pe-o margine de lume
The video was shot in Ukraine by the same team responsible for Verka Serducka's video Danzing.
source:esctoday.com
esctoday.com reports:
Dima spoke about his song and the inspiration behind it and stated that the version heard in the Russian national final is not the finalised one as some improvements are underway.
"My song was made in just 2 days." Dima says, "but these were such magical days, in which we gave all of our energy, all our emotions and feelings. I composed the song with Jim Beans, famous songwriter, composer and producer. Personally I wrote the refrain." read more...
The Heads of the Delegations of 43 countries participating in the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest will meet in Belgrade, on 17-18 March.
During the meeting, the Host Broadcaster will present its plans and prepare the heads of delegations for the upcoming contest. The draw for the starting order of the participants willl take place at the Sava Centre on Monday, 17 March. At the end of January, it was decided by a draw which countries will compete in Semifinal 1 and Semifinal 2.
FIRST SEMIFINAL:
Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Moldova, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, San Marino and Slovenia. Ten countries will qualify for the Final.
SECOND SEMIFINAL:
Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, FYR Macedonia, Georgia, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine. Ten countries will qualify for the Final
FINAL:France, Germany, Serbia, Spain and the United Kingdom.
The draw for the starting order will be broadcast live on RTS and through the official 2008 Eurovision Song Contest website eurovision.tv
source:RTS
later edit: The Cypriot Broadcasting Corporation will broadcast live the draw from Sava Center in Belgrade.
source:esctime.com
Jelena Tomasevic will represent the host country at this year's Eurovision Song Contest with the song Oro.
The composer of her song is Zeljko Joksimovic, who is also one of this year's hosts and has represented Serbia and Montenegro in 2004 and composed the Bosnian entry in the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest.
source:esctoday.com
Eurovision.tv can exclusively report that the group Mi Odio, which means "I hate myself", will be the first ever representative of San Marino at this year's Eurovision Song Contest. The group will sing the song Complice, which is in Italian language.
The song and group that will represent San Marino in Belgrade has been selected internally, after artists, composers and song writers were openly invited to submit their entries.
The group Mi Odio consists of three Italian members and two San Marinese. "Complice is a fresh, young and original song," the head of the jury said to Eurovision.tv.
Here is a sample of the song "Complice"
source: eurovision.tv;youtube.com
Watch Dima Bilan's winning moments at Russian national final. As the results were announced and Bilan was called on stage, the singer was crying not making it to the stage immediately.
Dima Bilan won last night the Russian national final having gathered maximum points from the jury and from the televoting. He sang a song produced by Timbaland titled Believe.
As the results were announced and Bilan was called on stage, the singer was crying not making it to the stage immediately. Eventually, through tears of joy, he performed once again his entry. Maria Serifovic, the last year's winner, handed the prize certificate which states the right to represent the country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade.
Dima Bilan - Believe
SEE ALSO: Dima's winning moments at Russian National Final - video
Lyrics:
Even when the thunder and storm begins
I'll be standing stong like a tree in the wind
Nothing is gonna move this mountain
or change my direction
I'm falling off the sky
And I'm all alone
The courage that's inside is gonna break my fall
Nothing is gonna dim my light within
But if I keep going on
It will never be impossible
Not today...
Cause I got something to believe in
As long as I'm breathing
There is not a limit to what I can dream
Cause I got something to believe in
Mission to keep climbing
Nothing else can stop me if I just believe
And I believe in me
Even when the world tries to pull me down
Tell me that I can try to turn me around
I won't let them put my fire out without no
But if I keep going on
It will never be impossible...
Not today...
I can do it all,
Open every door
Turn unthinkable to reality
You see
I can do it all and more!
Believing... as long as I'm breathing
There is not a limit to what I can dream
Believing... mission to keep climbing
Nothing else can stop me if I just believe
And I believe in me
Dima Bilan's entry in this year's Russian final is called Believing and it has been arranged by Timbaland.
Listen "Believing"
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Jovana Jankovic, the TV presenter of RTS morning program, and Zeljko Joksimovic, the renowned singer, will host this year’s “Eurovision Song Contest”, taking place between May 20th and 24th at "Belgrade Arena".
Jovana hosted the 2008 Draw phase on late January while Zeljko is known from his participation as singer in 2004 and in 2006 as a composer for Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina respectively.
26 years old Jovana Janković is hosting morning show on RTS every day.Zeljko Joksimovic is one of the most popular singers of Serbia and he represented Serbia and Montenegro in the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Lane moje.
They have started preparations for this important assignment and they both admit feeling great excitement because they will host this prestigious music manifestation. We will be able to see Jovana and Zeljko’s first hosting on March 17th in a draw for the semi-finals.
The Serbian entry is to be chosen at the Beovizija Festival on 9-10 March.
sources:oikotimes.com;blic.co.yu;.rts.co.yu
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Oikotimes.com reports:
After Marija backed an ultra-nationalist political party in Serbia at the previous presidential elections her career has been on the line. It seems though that her manager was the one to blame.
Marija Serifović officially ended all collaboration with her former manager Saša Mirkovć due to inability to reach a compromise.
Marija is currently negotiating with several managers about their possible future collaboration and it is believed that she is closest to picking Gane Pecikoza and Maksa Catović.
Marija Serifović is in Germany at the moment, and upon her return she will make a final decision about the manager who will continue to take care of her career.
Read more..
escmalta.com reports:
Following her successful promotion in Latvia, Morena is back in Malta to kick-off with the video shoot of the Maltese Eurovision entry Vodka.
Morena said that the video will include some up-sailing and some other actions which the Maltese representative is set to do to present an exciting video.
Till now no more official statements have been made about Morena's promo tour schedule but the singer is expected to visit more countries towards her performance in Belgrade.
Following the new version of Vodka and now the video shoot in the next few weeks we will experience the premiere and the launch of the Eurovision version for Malta.
You can visit Morena's MySpace website here, where you can hear the new audio version of the Maltese entry song, Vodka.
You can visit Morena'a blog here.
photo:Brian Grech
esctoday.com reports:
Nico and Vlad has just returned from Greece where they were invited by ERT, the national broadcaster, to participate as guests in the Greek final where they sung their Eurovision entry "Pe-o margine de lume"(At the edge of the world).
Their program was full of interviews to almost every Greek television channel and of course the exclusive interview and photo shoot for the Greek magazine "Downtown" which was a surprise for them as it wasn't on schedule.
The two Romanian participants have talked about the plagiarism case and declared that everything is over. They also prepared the video clip of their song which will be ready in the next days while they are getting ready to continue their promo tour in other countries too.
Full article HERE
Nico and Vlad - Greece National Final
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