The Golden Stag: Foreign participants

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 International Festival 2008

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.

Start voting for ESC Radio Awards 2008

Start voting for ESC Radio Awards 2008!

Between July 7 and July 13 the world-wide listeners of ESCRADIO.COM, the biggest online platform for Eurovision music, can vote for their favourites in four categories:

- Best Song 2008
- Best Female Artist 2008
- Best Male Artist 2008
- Best Group 2008

The 42 songs and artists from this year's Eurovision Song Contest-2008, get a second chance.

Vote for your favourites here

ESC Radio Awards 2008

Start voting for ESC Radio Awards 2008

The 42 songs and artists from this year's Eurovision Song Contest-2008, get a second chance. Between July 7 and July 13 the world-wide listeners of ESCRADIO.COM, the biggest online platform for Eurovision music, can vote for their favourites in four categories:


- Best Song 2008
- Best Female Artist 2008
- Best Male Artist 2008
- Best Group 2008

OGAE Home Composed Song Contest 2008

The 17th edition of the OGAE Home Composed Song Contest for amateur composers, lyricists and singers takes place this year, virtually hosted from Hamburg by Stefan Engel, winner of the 2007 edition. The deadline for the submission of the songs is 12th October2008.

Read more HERE

For more information visit the contest’s official site, here.

Dima Bilan - Best Singer at Muz TV Awards 2008

Jenifer Lopez presenting Best Singer Award.






See also:

Dima Bilan singing Number One Fan at Muz TV Awards 2008

Dima Bilan - Believe - Muz Tv Awards 2008

San Marino broadcaster interested in Eurovision

from esctoday.com

The microstate of San Marino is one of the last European countries never to have participated in the Eurovision Song Contest.

However, it seems that this could change in the next few years - Sammarinese broadcaster SMRTV has confirmed to esctoday.com that they are watching the Eurovision project with a possible participation in mind.

SMRTV considered joining in 2007, but its stockholders, many of whom are related to Italian broadcaster RAI, decided not to support the idea. Whether they will have changed their minds in a year seems unlikely, but SMRTV is aiming to participate at some point over the next few years, according to a spokesperson for the broadcaster.

San Marino is a tiny country surrounded entirely by Italy, and is often reported as being the world's oldest republic. Success for microstates has happened in the past - Monaco won in 1971, for example, and Malta has had 4 top 3 placings to date, the most recent coming in 2005 when Chiara placed 2nd.

As Italy is not participating in the contest, and seems unlikely to return in the near future, San Marino could act as a representative for the Italian language and music tradition in the contest in their absence. As a debuting country, San Marino would have to start in the semi final, should they enter.