Possible collaboration between Mihai Traistariu and Claudia Faniello

OGAEMALTA.com contacted Claudia Faniello's manager Trevor Fenech of Bubbles Entertainment to follow the story about a possible collaboration between the Romanian singer and composer, Mihai Traistariu and the local singer, Claudia Faniello.

Claudia, who is currently on a cruise as part of a realtiy show produced by Where's Everybody, is still awaiting an official invitation by the Romanian composer to finalise the deal proposed by Mihai himself.

In a recent press release, Mihai informed the international media that he has set his eyes on the Maltese singer, Claudia Faniello for whom he would like to write Malta's winning song for Eurovision 2009. "Claudia can win Eurovision with such a song", had commented a very optimistic Mihai.

"We are still waiting for the deal to start", confirmed Mr Fenech, "This is not the first time that Mihai has proposed us such a collaboration, however some 'interferences' from third parties set obstacles along the way. We are hoping that this time Mihai will keep his promise and come forward with his proposal", stated Claudia's manager.

On speaking with OGAEMALTA.com, Mr Fenech explained that Claudia is considering all possible options for her participation in next year's Malta Song for Europe. "She might not even participate! It is still early in the day", concluded Mr Fenech, who is quite aware that Claudia is being tipped as one of the hot favourites to win next year's Malta Song for Europe following her 2nd and 3rd place at the MSFE 2008.

In the meantime, Claudia Faniello's CARAVAGGIO will represent OGAE MALTA at the OGAE SECOND CHANCE CONTEST 2008, following a vote held among the members of OGAE MALTA.




source and photo: OGAE MALTA

Mihai Traistariu wants to do Eurovision again

Mihai Traistariu, the artist who represented Romania in the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest given an exclusive interview to esctoday.com about his plans, about his new album and its final release date, about the trip to USA for the L.A. Awards and of course about his possible participation in a future Eurovision Song Contest.

Mihai Traistariu definitely wants to walk on Eurovision stage once more, the contest has changed his entire life and he would happily participate again but only when the right song comes along.

In his interview, exclusively for the esctoday.com readers, he spoke about Love is... his forthcoming album about to be released sometime around Christmas, and about the charity concert with Marija Serifovic in Serbia.

Mihai will soon be travelling to the USA for the LA Awards ceremony where he hopes to walk away with one of the awards and a record deal with an American label.
You can read the full interview here

Marija Serifovic and Mihai Traistariu together at Love aid concert

esctoday.com reports:

The winner of this year's Eurovision Song Contest, Marija Serifovic, will give a concert this winter under the title Love aid and Mihai Traistariu will be her special guest. The concert will take place around Christmas in Belgrade or Novi Sad. The show will start with an anthem dedicated to love which will be sung by all the participants of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest.

The song will be titled Keep it on your mind and it will accompanied by a video clip in “all stars” style. This special song will also be performed during the opening of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade next year.

Marija’s decision to invite Mihai to this show was taken due to the success that Tornerò had in Serbia. The song stayed four months at the at the top of the Radio Ogostar Top50, five weeks in on top of the of Radio Fm Top40 and three weeks at the top of the Radio Belgrade airplay charts. Besides this success, National Radio PTC had Tornerò on it’s playlist for almost one year.

New Wave 2007:Third day. Mihai Traistariu -Video

Mihai Traistariu - "Say something" (songwritter Laurentiu Cazan)





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New Wave 2007: The results of the third day of the Festival

The second competing night held on 27 July at Dzintari concerthall in Jurmala, Latvia had the following results for the finalists of the New Wave 2007 festival:

1-Mihai Traistariu (Romania) - 107 (video)
2- Natalia Gordienko (Moldova) - 105 (video)
3-Natalia Vinokurova (Russia) -103
4-Kostas Martakis (Greece) - 103 (video)
5-duo "Barcelona" - (Ukraine) - 101
6-Erglis (Latvia) -101
7- Rin' Go (Kazakhtan) - 100
8- Francisca Urio (Gemany) - 100
9- Chioma (SUA) - 100
10- Masha Novikova (Russia) - 98
11-Marina (Poland) - 97
12- Vasiliy Lazarovich (Ukraine) -96
13- Anastasia Kochetkova (Russia)- 96
14- Eleonora (Georgia) -96
15- Polina Smolova (Belarus) - 95
16 - Issa Samer (Czech Republic) - 92
17- Kate (Czech Republic) - 89
18- Alessandro(Italy) - 88

source:newwavestars.com

New Wave Festival 2007:(Day 2): Mihai Traistariu -video

New Wave Festival 2007:(Day 2): Mihai Traistariu


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New Wave 2007:Live report from the second day

Yesterday night RTR aired the second day of the New Wave 2007.

Read the live report made by oikotimes.com in collaboration with Eurovision Cyprus.

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

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!"

read more here

source:newwavestars.com

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

sources:oikotimes.com; eurovision-cyprus.ueuo.com;newwavestars.com

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.

Sources: Atac ; eurovisionnews

The order of contestants' performance at New Wave festival

Watch the 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.

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

ROMANIA:Mihai Traistariu at New Wave festival

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

[UPD] The order of contestants' performance at New Wave



The final for the International Competition Of Young Singers of Popular Music the " New Wave" will start in 3 days.


Mihai Traistariu (Eurovision 2006) is one of the finalists of the Sixth International contest of young singers of popular music "New Wave 2007"

Mihai who arrived at the contest from a Roumanian city of Constanta, has already won five Grand Prix at musical contests in Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Moldova and was the fourth at the "Eurovision - 2006" contest.

He enjoys playing chess and he dreams of being able to live forever. He likes freedom, but he doesn't like solitude.

The finalist of the "New Wave 2007" contest has already got 10 solo albums.

He would gladly act in a comedy, in a horror film or in a sci-fi movie. He did not come from a rich family and he is proud of having made an international career with his own efforts.
He likes the music of Rumanian composers.

The best place for spending a holiday for the artist is Los Angeles. The first kiss at the age of 17 was the funniest experience in his life. He has been playingthe piano since he was seven and he began singing at the age of 16.

He noticed his talent for music himself. He would sing a duet with C.Dion or with M.Bolton with great pleasure.

The artist is not an excellent cook, but the eastern salad that he makes is always very delicious. When he was a child, his friends called him "MISHA". If Mihai were a sponsor, he would invest money in the projects concerning research into span of life and the problem of treatment of oncological diseases.

If the singer had to work in a circus, he would have a success both as an illusionist and as a tamer. He has a good command of French and English. He made his first money performing on stage eight years ago.

He dreams of getting a cell phone number of M.Carey - the artist is inlove with this celebrity. He would be happy to get a small animal as a birthday present. As a child he used to dream of becoming famous. He won 100 euro in a lottery once.

Mihai is sure that it's better to celebrate New Year at home, but to his deep regret he has to make the audience happy performing on the festive night.

If he became a president, his first decree would be called "Smoking is banned". Mihai is fearless, there is nothing in life that could frighten him. He never leaves homewithout a medicine against loss of hair, the schedule of his next concerts, pyjamas, an excellent soap and a toothbrush.

He would gladly make a journey to the future. The singer's motto is "There is nothing impossible". From time to time he gets amazed at the interesting facts he can find about himself in Internet.

Moscow seemed magnificent to the contestant;Mihai is speculating: could it look like Mars?! The idea of becoming a number 1 singer inspires him to work. He is taking part in the "New Wave" contest in order to win.

From his new album "Love is" listen Mihai singing a song both in Chinese and Spanish language.

Mihai Traistariu - Ni kuai le ma



more on NEW Wave Festival Latvia, Jurmala 25 - 30 July 2007


Sources:New Wave 2007
TVR2/Plaja lui Maruta

Exclusive :Dimmi si o no -Mihai Traistariu -Videoclip

Today at "Garsoniera lui Maruta" show at TVR2, Mihai Traistariu has released his new videoclip for the song Dimmi si o no.




sorry for the quality of the video

Dimmi si o no video ready

Mihai Traistariu is preparing for the international release of the music video to his latest song, Dimmi si o no.

The music video, directed by Iulian Moga, will debut on TVR 2 tomorow July 3, during the television show, "Plaja lui Maruta" at 10am local time.

Live webcast here

Mihai Traistariu has been nominated for yet another award, this time in his home country, Romania. He has been nominated for 'Boys - Best Hit' category.

The nomination comes hot on the heels of his first American nomination, the highly prestigious 'Best Male Vocal' award at the LA Music Awards.

source:tvr.ro

Mihai Traistariu nominated at Romanian Hit Awards

Mihai Traistariu, who represented Romania at the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest, has been nominated for 'Best Romanian Hit' in the males category with his new single ''Dimmi si o no''. The award forms part of the 'Romanian Top Hit Awards', which will take place on August 3 and 4 in Bacau, and you can vote for Mihai by click HERE

The video of the said song will be aired for the first time on Romanian television on Tuesday (July 3) on TVR 2's show 'Garsoniera lui Maruta', which is on at 10:00 (AM) local time.

Live webcast here

Meanwhile Mihai's new album is well on the way to the end of production and will be launched very soon.The album, the 10th of his career, is called ''Love Is...'' and has twelve songs in six different languages.


Mihai Traistariu - Dimmi si o no (live)

Names of "New Wave 2007" finalists made public

Names of the finalists of the Sixth International contest of young singers of popular music "New Wave 2007" have been made public.

General Director of "ARS" holding company, General Director of the "New Wave" contest Alexander Rumyantsev said, "Eight thousand musical performances from 37 countries have been auditioned.

That's significant for us. These are good figures for the six-year old contest. I admit the fact that it was difficult to single out anyone from the participants. They are becoming better and better every year. It was really difficult to make a choice.

We think that we have selected the most worthy singers, capable of making the contest interesting, attracting attention of the audience and making a big event out of it. This is valuable! We did not want to exclude some of them, so a decision to let 18 persons get through to the final was made.
Performing time was thus cut to 3 minutes. We gave them a chance and I hope we willnot regret it! Formerly the "New Wave" could be watched in other countries by means of satellite communication.

This year the contest will be broadcasted in Europe owing to the contestants who come from European countries. Many countries are going to watch their contestants, make TV programs, and broadcast live from Jurmala.

I wish all the contestants to perform in the "Dzintari" concert hall successfully. Be sure of yourselves and let good luckhelp you to win!"

Finalists of the contest:

Belarus - Polina Smolova
Germany - Francisca
Greece -Kostas Martakis
Georgia - Eleonora
Italy - Alessandro
Kazakhstan - band "Rin Go"
Latvia -Erglis Moldavia - Natalia Gordienko
Poland - MarinaRussia - Nastya Kochetkova; Natasha Vinokur; Masha Novikova
Romania - Mihai Traistariu
USA - Chioma
Ukraine - Vasiliy Lazarovitch, duet "Barcelona"
Czech Republic - Kate, Issa Samer

source:newwavestars.com




Mihai Traistariu Say something



Anatropi - Kostas Martakis

Mihai Traistariu builds career

Mihai Traistariu hopes to work with famous producer Tommy Motolla, but the Romanian artist who finished 4th the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest is exploring all his options. That’s why he has also applied to take part in the L.A. Awards, and he is currently participating in the international New Wave Festival where he is a finalist for that contest.

If anyone in Romania doubted Mihai Traistariu when he declared his intentions to succeed in the international arena, the singer is working to prove them wrong. He is taking many small - but steady - steps on his way to realizing his career dreams. Naturally his 4th place finish in Athens introduced him to a larger audience. Now, he is taking part in the New Wave Festival where he has qualified for the finals in Latvia with the highest score from the semi-final round. This exposure will only benefit him should he attempt to represent Romania in another Eurovision Song Contest.

However, Mihai has recently said that his biggest dream is to make a career overseas in the USA - although he had not tried to get in contact with any US-American managers until a very well-known producer from Portugal and a good friend of Tommy Motolla heard his song contest entry Tornerò during a shopping trip.

The Portuguese producer contacted Mihai and suggested they record two songs for Motolla. These songs are finished, one of them is a duet with the famous female Romanian singer Nico (who also took part in various Romanian national finals) and now he is waiting for the producer to visit Romania: ”He will come in the 1st of July to listen to the songs and to find out the results. It’s a formality that has to be done”, Mihai declared.

The singer has also applied to take part in the L.A. Awards. Many prominent international singers like Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas and Anastacia first attracted notice at these awards.

Next week Mihai will be visiting Norway with his girlfriend, perhaps he's also looking for a little summer vacation.

sources:esctoday;gardianul.ro

Mihai Traistariu at the New Wave festival in Moscow

Mihai Traistariu, the Romanian representative in the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest in Athens, where he finished fourth with the song Tornerò, is trying to get everything ready for the next Eurovision Song Contest 2008 by taking part to the international song contest New Wave.

Actually, Mihai participates in a well known festival called New Wave which is an international competition for young singers of popular music. The show attracts millions of spectators, journalists and media as well as fans.

After three selection heats, where more than 3.000 participants competed, Mihai finished first with the highest score among the 16 finalists. The competition took place in Moscow but the final will take place in Riga, Latvia, where Mihai will perform live with an orchestra on three consecutive evenings.The winner will be chosen by a jury and by televoting.

GOOD LUCK MIHAI!

source:gardianul.ro