Official video for "Change" by HotelFM, Romania's entry for Eurovision 2011.
Music: Gabriel Baruta
Lyrics: Alexandra Ivan&Gabriel Baruta
Editor:Cristian Grosu
Director of Photography: Silviu Andrei, Mihai Covrig
Producer: Elena Stirbescu, Eduard Schneider
Director: Dan Manoliu
Eurovision Romania's official page
After Morandi were chosen for "Best artist in Romania", the pop duo, consisting of composer Marius Moga and singer Andrei Ropcea (Randi), will fight for the prestigious award in the category "Europe's favorite" of the MTV Europe Music Awards.
Voting for "Europe's favorite" is already active and the deadline is on November 3. The official awards ceremony will be held on November 6 in Liverpool, England.
Morandi's opponents in this category are Nightwish, Leona Lewis, Eurovision 2008 - Dima Billan and others.
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Miodio (ESC 2008)performing at Golden Stag Festival,Romania the song Dincolo de Nori"
The song was performed for the first time by Dan Bittman, Romania at 1994 Eurovision Song Contest.
Miodio - Dincolo de nori
Dan Bittman (ESC 1994) Dincolo de Nori
Razvan Krivach from Romania won the Golden Stag 2008, Brasov, Romania
Biondo, the Swedish band who came second after Nico and Vlad Mirita this year in the Romanian final with Shine, won the Silver Stag.
Tony Poptamas & Desperado who competed in the 2007 Romanian preselection won the Bronze Stag.
Miodio, the first ever representatives of San Marino at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, and Moldavian finalist this year, Olia Tira, missed out on a place in the final.
Razvan Krivach singing "Too much love will kill you" at Golden Stag Final
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Biondo, Sweden singing Shine and Cerul (The sky) at Golden Stag 2008
Tony Poptamas &Desperado singing "The Universe" at Golden Stag Final
27 foreign artists will compete in the Golden Stag 2008 in Brasov, together with 3 Romanian artists, for a total of 30 contestants.
The 3 Romanians will be the winners of the semifinal held on 10th of August in a live show by TVR1.
Among the participants are San Marino's first entrants Miodio, alongside Biondo (Romanian NF 2008) representing Sweden, Crash (Norwegian NF 2007, 2008) representing Norway, Maya (Slovenian NF 2004, 2006 & Irish NF 2008) representing Slovenia and Alexandra & Constantin (Belarusian NF 2004) representing Belarus.
The complete list of foreign participants selected for the competition:
(in alphabetical order)
1. 3Nity – FRANCE
2. Alexa – MOLDOVA
3. Alexander Prosek – GERMANY
4. Alexandra & Constantin – BELARUS
5. Biondo – SWEDEN
6. Biu – CUBA
7. Chen Luhong – CHINA
8. Crash! – NORWAY
9. Deniz – TURKEY
10. Dewi Marpaung – INDONESIA
11. En Yang – CHINA
12. Josefin – SWEDEN
13. Krikka Reggae – ITALY
14. Lena Grach – RUSSIA
15. Maya – SLOVENIA
16. Millenium – MOLDOVA
17. Miodio - SAN MARINO
18. Mudmen – CANADA
19. Nevena – BULGARIA
20. Nicolas Cantoro – ARGENTINA
21. Nicole Jane – UK
22.Priscilla – MALTA
23. Sabine Berezina – LATVIA
24. Sarah Reeve – AUSTRALIA
25. Olia Tira - MOLDOVA *
26. Tami & Nir – ISRAEL
27. Victoria Linskaya – RUSSIA
* SOFIA, the competitor from Greece, retired from this year's edition of the GOLDEN STAG, therefor her place will be taken by OLIA TIRA, from Moldova, as she obtained the higest score from the jury after Sofia in the preselection for the GOLDEN STAG hold on July 16, 2008.
You can listen all the songs HERE
The Golden Stag Festival is an annual international music festival held in Braşov, Romania. The festival has two main components: an international contest and guest performances by both Romanian and foreign stars.
In March 1968 was held the first edition and 22 solo performers from 28 countries competed for winning the Trophy that left for Belgium that year, with Jacques Hustin.
Even if only at the beginning, the musical event organized by Romania was also called "The festival from the East that looked like in the West!"
Worldwide broadcast in 1970, the festival got a larger and larger recognition, while winning a prize in the competition was an important goal for any solo performer.
Famous names nowadays, like Julio Iglesias or Christina Aguilera, currently dominating the musical industry and having fans in the whole world, sang on the stage in Brasov, in their early career.
Well-known artists have performed at the festival over the years, including James Brown, Kenny Rogers, Culture Beat, Paul Young, Boy George, Ray Charles, Enrico Macias, Dalida, Toto Cutugno, Patricia Kaas, Jerry Lee Lewis, Kylie Minogue, Diana Ross, Sheryl Crow, Zucchero, INXS, UB 40, Cyndi Lauper, Vaya con Dios, The Kelly Family, Boyz II Men, T.A.T.U, Scorpions, Ricky Martin, Simple Minds, Pink, Nino D’Angelo and Thomas Anders.
This year 27 foreign artists will compete in the Golden Stag 2008 in Brasov, together with 3 Romanian artists, for a total of 30 contestants. Some of them are former participants at Eurovision Song Contest.
The 3 Romanians will be the winners of the semifinal held on 10th of August in a live show by TVR1.
Festival will take place between September 3rd- 7th, 2008
More information about the foreign and romanian competitors soon.
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
Romanian representatives, Nico and Vlad performed "Pe o margine de lume" in the 1st Semi Final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 and they were qualified for the final.
Romania was drawn 1st in the Final.
The representatives of nineteen countries have presented their songs tonight in the First Semi-Final of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest.
After all songs had been presented, televoting started in all the participating countries as well as in Spain and Germany, who are already qualified for the Final, but were drawn to vote in the First Semi-Final.
Nine of the qualifying countries were decided by televoting. Furthermore, the highest placed song in the result of the national backup juries which was not yet qualified through televoting got a place in the Final as well. However, the TV public will only find out which country it was after the Final of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday.
The following countries have qualified for the Final of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest (in order of announcement):
Greece - video
Romania - video
Bosnia and Herzegovina - video
Finland - video
Russia - video
Israel - video
Azerbaijan - video
Armenia - video
Poland - video
Norway - video
eurovision.tv has an exclusive video with the reactions af all semi finalists right after their performance in front of the Eurovision.tv camera crew.
Bilingual romance for Romania
The Romanian representatives Nico & Vlad rehearsed their romantic duet for the first time today. They started their performance at distant positions on stage and moved towards each other during the song, hugging tenderly in the end. The two singers left a vocally brilliant impression of their bilingual song in Italian and Romanian language.
Romania is being represented in the First Semi-Final of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest by a mixed duo, Nico and Vlad. Nico is the female part of the duo, performing her verses in Italian language, while Vlad performs his operatic parts in Romanian. Their first rehearsal went very well today, and both were vocally brilliant and very professional. In the beginning of the performance, Vlad was on stage alone, with Nico only joining him for the second verse. They stood at distant parts of the stage first and then moved closer towards each other. In the end, they reached out their hands for each other and then hugged.
Nico and Vlad - Pe-o margine de lume -rehearsal
Press conference
In the press conference, the Romanian delegation was asked why they decided to combine the Italian and Romanian languages in one song. They answered that, being latin languages, they harmonize very well. Furthermore, they explained how difficult it was to film the official video clip for the song because they had to wait for the right light for a whole day, and then, when the setting sun appeared between the clouds, they only had four minutes to record the key part of the video clip!
source:eurovision.tv
Nico and Vlad Mirita and the entire Romanian delegation will arrive in Belgrade tomorrow, on the 11th of May. The two Romanian representatives and Andrei Tudor, the composer of the Romanian song gave on Friday a press conference.
Nico and Vlad have confessed that they feel emotional and proud at the same time.
"There a lot of good songs this year but we are not the one who decides who wins.We will do our best to take the best possible position but the European public decides and we trust it." declared Nico and Vlad.
Nico and Vlad will wear clothes designed by the famous Romanian designer Razvan Sanda while the whole show will be an idea of Mr. Petre Nastase who also released the video clip.
Nico & Vlad Mirita -Pe-o margine de lume (English subtitles)
Besides the song "Pe-o margine de lume", Nico and Vlad also oferred the audience a famous duet of Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion, "The Prayer".
It was a good occasion for the public to sing along with Nico and Vlad, as they could not sing the Romanian lyrics of the first song.
Pe-o margine de lume - UK Eurovision Preview Party @ Scala
The prayer - UK Eurovision Preview Party @ Scala
A recording of the performance of the two singers at the concert organized by ARTHIS (House of Culture Belgiano-Romanian), which took place in Market St. Caterina in Brussels.
The Romanian tenor Vlad Mirita and the pop singer Nico have visited Moldova and Ukraine during the promo tour that has been scheduled in order to promote their Eurovision entry "Pe-o margine de lume".
Moldova, their first stop, was full of surprises. On their arrival to Chisinau, the Moldovan capital, they went directly to "Euro TV" show where for a whole hour they talked about their entry and their career.
They also appeared in many TV shows in both countries and gave several interviews in magazines, sites and radio stations.
"We were very warmly welcomed both in Moldova and Ukraine. Unfortunately, we didn't have much time to visit Chişinău, but we promised to go back and talk about us and our plans." declared Nico and vlad Mirita.
Nico and Vlad enjoyed massive media coverage in Ukraine, appearing and being interviewed in no less that 10 major media, 1+1TV, MTV Ukraine, M1TV, 24TV, included.
Nico and Vlad enjoyed thoroughly the online conversation with local fans through the e-motion website which gave them the chance to come to closer contact with the local Eurofans.
In Ukraine, the duo was accompanied by Rusalna’s PR manager Maria Dashenko. Maria gave them a nappy toy which they named Masha and promised to take along to Belgrade as a good luck mascot.
Kalomoira's promo tour in Azerbaijan and Romania from ET1 news.
Azeri Press Agentliyi reports:
Elnur Huseynov and Samir Javadzade, who will represent Azerbaijan in Eurovision Song Contest 2008, will leave for Georgia on April 3.
Head of Azerbaijani delegation in Eurovision-2008 song contest Adil Karimli told APA that they would stay in Georgia by April 5.“Our representatives will sing the song Day after day
Elnur and Samir will also visit TV channels of Tbilisi and give interview to local media representatives.
The clip of "Day after day" will be demonstrated on TV channels in Tbilisi”, he said.Karimli said Huseynov and Javadzadeh would go on a tour to Europe beginning from April 12.
Our representatives will sing "Day after day" in Malta, Romania, Andorra, Moldova and Slovenia.
After Vlad's operation for his nose diaphragm and his recovery, Nico and Vlad Mirita, are ready for their promo tour. They will visit Belgium and are still awaiting confirmation for trips to Spain and Cyprus.
Nico and Vlad Mirita will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with the song "Pe-o margine de lume" composed by Andrei Tudor.
The Romanian entry has also appeared on a youtube video subtitled in English for all the fans out there who don't understand Romanian and Italian.
Watch the video clip of the Romanian song with the English subtitles.
You can vote for Pe-o margine de lume on the Romanian top 100 here
Romania will take part in the first semifinal at the 17th position.
source:esctoday.com
Kalomoira singing and dancing a Greek song at "O data-n viata" show at TVR1
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Watch Kalomoira at "Razvan & Dani" show
Watch Kalomoira at "Tonomatul DP2"
Watch Kalomoira at "TEO live show"
Kalomoira at "TEO live show" at Prima TV - interview
Kalomoira - "Secret Combination" at TEO live show
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Watch Kalomoira at "Razvan & Dani" show
Watch Kalomoira at "Tonomatul DP2"
Watch Kalomoira at "O data-n viata" show
Kalomoira at "Razvan & Dani" show with "Secret Combination"
Kalomoira at "Razvan & Dani" show - interview
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Watch Kalomoira at "Tonomatul DP2"
Watch Kalomoira at "TEO live show"
Watch Kalomoira at "O data-n viata" show
