Marija's back up singers :The Beauty Queens

Sanja Bogosavljevic, Ana Milenkovic, Suzana Dinic, Ivana Selakov and Ksenija Milosevic, aka The Beauty Queens, who backed up Marija Serifovic on the Helsinki stage during the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest have embarked on their new career.

Most of the band's members are no strangers to the Eurovision Song Contest. Ksenija is a popular violin player and was a member of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Eurovision Song Contest team in 2006, performing on stage with Hari Mata Hari.

Suzana Dinic participated in the 2007 Serbian national semi final Beovizija with Nudim Ti Srce Svoje but she didn't manage to get to the final. Ivana Selakov was a Serbian final participant in 2006 and Ana Milenkovic, tried her luck back in 2004 when she participated in the national final as well.

The five Serbian ladies, having taken part in the Budva festival, are currently preparing for a festival in Ohrid towards the end of the month when they will perform Ne mogu da te ne volim (I can't help loving you).

Ana Milenkovic managed to place third, winning a prize of 2.000 dollars, at the recent Slavjanski bazar in Belarus singing Rano je za tugu by Haris Dzinovic and Nocas mi srce pati by Silvana Armenulic

Blic, the Serbian newspaper asked the Beauty Queens whether they would perform with Marija Serifovic again : "If she invites us to her concert in Belgrade, we will accept an invitation. However, we have too many obligations right now, so it would be extremely difficult to coordinate our engagements."

Ana Milenkovic - Rano je za tugu (Vitebsk 2007)

sources:esctoday.com;youtube.com

photo:TV Novosti

Marija Serifovic's interview to esctoday.com

Marija Serifovic, the Serbian 2007 Eurovision Song Contest winner spoke to esctoday.com during her visit to Sweden where she was headlining the SchlagerPride event . She was pleased to meet up with us to put straight a few rumours and talk about her experiences since winning the Eurovision Song Contest.

In a full and frank interview, Marija talks about the pressure of the Winner's Tour, the rumoured participation at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest for Switzerland, her plans for a new album, sexuality and Serbian politics and what we can expect from the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest in Serbia.

read more and watch the video interview at esctoday.com

Dima Bilan - Time to party -photos

New Wave 2007, Jurmala, Latvia

source:novonews.lv;partylive.lv

Anna Vissi in legal debate

esctoday.com reports:

Anna Vissi, the Greek star who has represented both Cyprus and Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest, is going through a very rough time as she saw her possessions being taken by bailiffs and her assets frozen as a result of a 2.3 million euro compensation she has to pay to the Polyvideo Production company.

Clothes, accessories, furniture, paintings and electronic gadgets were taken from Anna Vissi's home last Friday as a result of the popular singer's debate with the Polyvideo Production company who have been adjucated the astronomical sum of 2,3 million euros as compensation for a TV project that did not go through. Anna Vissi's belongings will be auctioned on October 31st at very low starting prices.

Read more HERE

Read Espresso article (in greek) HERE

source:esctoday.com;espresso.gr

Belgium: Eurosong 2008 trailer on tv

belgovision.com reports:

The search for the Belgian entry for the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest is promoted by a Eurosong 2008 trailer on Eén since this week. In the video, Eurosong host Bart Peeters invites popular and unknown Flemish artists to be a candidate in the one and only contest of state importance.

In April already, VRT invited established singers and undiscovered talents to submit their songs for next year's Belgian Eurovision Song Contest selections. The songs should be original and new and no longer than 3 minutes.
All languages and styles are welcome. VRT however stresses that they are looking forward to receive special and creative entries. Furthermore, VRT will also look out for strong candidates on their own. At the beginning of August, Eén started airing a trailer inviting Flemish artists to be a candidate in Eurosong 2008.

Watch the trailer here

Silvia Night back in Eurovision road?

esctoday.com reports:

Silvia Night was one of the surprise performers at last night's SchlagerPride event in Stockholm, Sweden. A live performance of her 2006 Eurovision Song Contest song was one of the highlights of the show and will fuel rumours that the Icelandic 'megastar' is looking at a return to the competition in Belgrade.

In February, she told esctoday.com: "Last year was such a big hit and everybody loved me, so I want to keep the good memories. I've moved onto bigger things. Eurovision is for slow people... I entertained them last year but I've moved on".

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Tatu is #36 in the Forbes rating

The Russian version of the magazine Forbes published a rating of 50 richest stars of Russian domestic show business and sports. The rating is set by income, press coverage, and also by the interest of an audience from July 1st 2006 to June 30th 2007.

Tatu has settled down at the 36th place having earned 1.4 million dollars. The year before Tatu where in the 6th place with an income of 3.3 million dollars. The group has droped 30 places in a year.

Dima Bilan is #3 this year with 4.1 million dollars, Valeriya is 8th with 3.5 million dollars. Zhanna Friske is 14th with about 1.3 million dollars, popular singer Maksim is 17th with about 1.5 million etc.

"We don't do anything special to get on the Forbes list. Frankly speaking, we don't care about it all. We know that anyway we're the most popular Russian girl band in the whole world!" said Yulia Volkova and Lena Katina to TV channel RussiaToday.

Source: TatySite.net