Konstantinos Hristoforou on Bryan Adams stage as support act

from Eurovision Cyprus

The big concert featuring Bryan Adams with Konstantinos Hristoforou was performed on 29 of June at Tsirio Stadium.

Konstantinos participated for Cyprus in the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Mono gia mas", also in 2002 with the group One and "Gimme" and finally in 2005 with "Ela Ela".

Konstantinos sings the songs that came second in the national selection for the Cypriot participation in the 50th Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev, Ukraine, "She's no fool" and his recent big hit "Thes na kanoume sxesi".


Bryan Adams & 4 girls on stage dancing in Limassol Cyprus

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

New team heads OGAE France

On Sunday June 24th,OGAE France held its annual board meeting in Paris and completely renewed the board.

After 2 years of flawless work, Alex (the President), Patrice (the Treasurer) and Alain (the Secretary) decided to stop their activities. However they of course remain members of the French club.

Elections took place which resulted in a new board. Mathieu Kroon was elected the new President of Ogae-France. Mathieu is a young (22) and dynamic person with a very European background (he has origins from the Netherlands, Germany and Spain!). Jean-Louis Camet was appointed as the new treasurer and Francis Soghomonian as the new secretary.

The magazine of the French club (Cocoricovision) was also subject to changes. After 5 years of brilliant work, Alex Rouffignac decided to stop his work and Ethan Marchand is now the chief editor.

OGAE France hold several events during the year for their members. To join OGAE France, or for more information, email ogae@esctoday.com.

source:esctoday.com

Antonis Karatzikos:"OGAE is a large, loving family".

Antonis Karatzikos, president of OGAE Greece, has been elected as the new International Coordinator of OGAE International. He will serve a two year term as a result of the recent elections held by OGAE presidents on 1st and 15th June.

esctoday.com spoke with the new OGAE IC in Athens to congratulate him on his election. Antonis spoke to us about his plans for the immediate future, about his ambition to help found an OGAE club in every single participating country, about his expectations for the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade and his views on the voting system. The full interview will be published later tonight on esctoday.com.

The new OGAE International Coordinator also has a message for the readers of esctoday.com - especially those not in one of the OGAE clubs yet- is this: “OGAE is a large, loving family. We do things about and for the Eurovision Song Contest 12 months a year and we have a great time! It is really worth for someone to join and experience the whole thing from within.”

source:esctoday.com

Marija's backing vocalists win BUDVA Festival

This years backing vocalists in the Serbian entry Molitva has participated and won in this years Budva festival.

Sanja Bogosavljevic, Ana Milenkovic, Suzana Dinic, Ivana Selakov and Ksenjia Milosevic participated under the group name "Beauty Queens" with the song "Pet na jaden" and they won the festival.






source:oikotimes.com

2008 Malta Song for Europe :Meeting With Writers & Singers

from ESCMalta

“ Maltasong board will be holding a meeting this coming Wednesday with Song Writers and Singers with regards to the 2008 Malta Song for Europe.”

The Maltasong board has announced that a meeting will take place this coming Wedensday 4 July 2007 at the Vivaldi Hotel at 19:00hrs CET.

Invited to the meeting are all composers, authors and singers as well as any one who wishes to attend and contribute towards the discussion.

This meeting is of high imortance, and Maltasong chairperson, Robert Abela, has already hinted that next year's festival will see some changes which will be focused more on the song rather than the singer in order to get the best possible result next year in Belgrade, Serbia.

These decisions are being taken in light of the disappointing results that Malta has achieved in the last two editions of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Again the same story; Silvia Night for 2008 Icelandic selection

The controversial Silvia Night is rumoured to be re-entering the national selection in Iceland in 2008 for the eurovision in Belgrade.

The rumour started on Youtube and has been spreading, Silvia night is planning a eurovision song contest comeback. Silvia Night participated in eurovision song contest 2006 but didn't make it to the final to many peoples surprise.

She ended up at number 13th in the semifinal.

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sources:oikotimes.com;youtube.com