Friday, March 7, 2008

Greece: First interview of Kalomoira after NF

Kalomoira at Alter.tv

Rusia: Dima Bilan - Believing - audio








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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Thursday, March 6, 2008

Jovana Jankovic and Zeljko Joksimovic will host Eurovision Song Contest 2008



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
photo:rts.co.yu

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Sarbel - Exo trelathei - live NF Greece

Sarbel - Exw trelathei

Marija Serifovic splits from her manager

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.

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Malta:New audio version of Vodka


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

Romania:Nico and Vlad Mirita in Greece


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


photo:TVR