Sirusho, who successfully represented Armenia at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest with "Qele, Qele", will travel to Cyprus in November to support the Armenian Junior Eurovision Song Contest participants.
Armenia will be represented by Monika Manucharova, who will sing Im Ergi Hnchyune in Lemesos on the 22nd of November. Armenian superstar Sirusho will also pack for Cyprus, to support, guide and advise the young singer representing her country in the lead up to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.
The role of Armenia's former Eurovision Song Contest hope is limited to supporting the young delegates in Cyprus, and Sirusho is not scheduled to make an appearance on the show itself.
Deep Zone will be producing the singles of some artists participating in this year's Bulgarian national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009.
Producing and remixing most hit singles of other Bulgarian artists, Deep Zone also started Music Space, a project to promote their young protégés.
But Deep Zone is not only helping other artists in buliding a successful career, they have been busy following their own ambitious projects as well, such as their National Club Tour which led them to 20 Bulgarian cities. Moreover, they did over hundred live performances and club gigs, including an appearance at Spirit of Bourgas, an international music festival.
Their current single is called Let the music love ya, which was released in October and managed to reach the top of various important charts. Due to a contract with ToCo International, the single is set to be released worldwide in a month.
The third annual esctoday.com awards are just a few weeks away, and this year esctoday.com members will be given the chance to determine the nominations for each category.
[..]Over the next two weeks, we will run a series of polls for each category The esctoday.com team will then finalise the nominations and you, the fans of the Eurovision Song Contest, will be able to vote in the biggest awards programme for the competition.[..]
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NATIONAL FINALS 2008:
BEST NATIONAL FINAL 2008 BEST NATIONAL FINAL PERFORMANCE (EXCLUDING WINNER) OF THE YEAR BEST MALE PERFORMANCE NOT TO QUALIFY FOR EUROVISION BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE NOT TO QUALIFY FOR EUROVISION BEST BAND PERFORMANCE NOT TO QUALIFY FOR EUROVISION
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Dima Bilan, the Russian representative and the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 took part in a show called Stars on ice, where he danced on the ice together with the Olympic champion Elena Berezhnaya.
The concept of the show is to take a professional ice-skater and a famous artist or a singer from Russia, who never stood on ice before. The pairs train together all week long and on Saturday nights they show the audience and tele-audience what they have achieved.
"The first ever (and only, so far) winner of the Eurovision Song Contest for Greece, Helena Paparizou is about to start recordings for her international album.[..] At the moment she is touring Greece giving concerts along with Manos Pirovolakis."
Bad News:
"The pressure of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest and the treatment Kalomira had from the Greek media and press before and after Belgrade seems to be the main reason for her trip back to her family in New York. This is what we get from her father's statement in an interview in Downtown magazine.
Kalomira was mistreated and wasn't paid for her promo activities he said but at the end he leaves an opening for his daughter to come back in Greece in August. The news come as a shock since it is weird how a young artist who reached almost the top in Eurovision and applauded (afterwards) in Greece, stops everything. At the moment Kalomira is in New York close to her family, especially her sister who gave birth to her first child."
The scheduled duet didn't take place anymore as the Nelly Furtado's plane arrived too late in Moscow, so Bilan and Furtado didn’t have time for the rehearsals.
Dima Bilan sang four songs alone, just before Nelly’s concert.