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ESC 2013: is Nuša Derenda Slovenia’s hope for this Eurovision 2013?

June 29, 2012 Eurovision, Slovenia No comments

With the 2012 edition only just over, the first rumors and gossip for Eurovision 2013 have begun. While the focus has mainly been on host country Sweden, who’s been revealing more details about their host city bids, and their production team, the Slovenian broadcaster RTVSLO has apparently approached superstar and 2001 representativeNuša Derenda to represent them again at the forthcoming event..

Derenda, born Anuška Žnideršič, has been one of the countries most popular singers since she released her first single in 1999. In 2001, she was approached by the Slovenian broadcaster to represent her Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen, Denmark, with the song ‘Energy’, achieving a high respectable 7th place. To date it’s still Slovenia’s best result in the competition.

Whether Nuša Derenda will actually be picked as the Slovenian representative is yet to be seen. If she does, she’ll be succeeding Eva Boto, who represented the country this year with the ballad ‘Verjamen’ but failed to qualify for the grand final.

To be continued…

Watch Nuša Derenda’s 2001 entry ‘Energy’ below

ESC 2012: Jury votes in from Slovenia, Ireland, Belgium and Bosnia Herzegovina.

June 15, 2012 Albania, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Eurovision, Ireland, Slovenia No comments

It’s been three weeks since Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden, in Baku, Azerbaijan. Many fans of the event are now in anticipation to find out the split votes between the juries and televoting, announced by the 42 participating broadcasters.

4 of them have announced their results already: Slovenia, Ireland, Belgium and Bosnia Herzegovina are the latest edition.

The system of 50% televoting and 50% juries was introduced in 2010, as an answer to claims of political voting in the past.

Semi 2   Slovenia 1       Ireland 1        Belgium 2       Bosnia H.

1 point

Estonia

Switzerland

Romania

Slovenia

2 points

Turkey

Albania

Cyprus

Turkey

3 points

Georgia

Hungary

Finland

Malta

4 points

Norway

Israel

Iceland

Portugal

5 points

Portugal

Denmark

Greece

Ukraine

6 points

Malta

Cyprus

Ireland

Bulgaria

7 points

Lithuania

Greece

Austria

Serbia

8 points

Croatia

Finland

Albania

FYR Macedonia

10 points

Serbia

Romania

Hungary

Sweden

12 points

Sweden

Belgium

Russia

Croatia
Final

1 point

Spain

France

Greece

Iceland

2 points

Cyprus

Spain

Germany

Estonia

3 points

Germany

Denmark

Iceland

Ukraine

4 points

Russia

Romania

Hungary

Azerbaijan

5 points

Moldova

Azerbaijan

Ireland

France

6 points

Bosnia

Italy

Russia

Serbia

7 points

Iceland

Ukraine

Spain

Spain

8 points

Italy

Sweden

Serbia

Albania

10 points

Serbia

Germany

Sweden

Sweden

12 points

Sweden

Estonia

Albania

FYR Macedonia

The jury results for the final see Sweden and Albania receiving the most amount of 12 points. Albania was represented by Rona Nishliu and her ballad ‘Suus’. Loreen from Sweden won the contest with ‘Euphoria’.

ESC 2012 Review – Part 11: Bulgaria, Slovenia & Croatia

April 18, 2012 Eurovision No comments

Since 2008 the annual Eurovision Song Contest consists of two semi finalists which are responsible to deliver 10 qualifiers each to take part in the grand final where they join Italy, France, Germany, Spain and the host country, this year Azerbaijan. Over the past few weeks we’ve been going through the semi finalists. Today we have a closer look at the entries from Bulgaria, Slovenia and Croatia.

Bulgaria: Sofi Marinova – Love Unlimited

Bulgaria made its debut in the 2005 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest and has made its appearance in the grand final only once in 2007 with the Safri Duo inspired ‘Water’. This year the country selected singer Sofi Marinova, in a national final, to represent her country with a 90ies dance track, which shows quite a lot of similarities with Romanian Inna’s European breakthrough single (we let you decide if you can hear it too). ”Love Unlimited” is a dance track which is almost entirely sung in Bulgarian. The chorus however is a mixture of ‘I Love You’ in different languages including French, Greek, Turkish and Italian. Shame Bulgaria is right behind Ukraine, but let’s cross our fingers both tracks make it to the final with ease.

Slovenia: Eva Boto – Verjamen

16 year old Eva Boto, is this years youngest participant in the Eurovisiong Song Contest, carrying the flag for Slovenia. The singer won the ticket during EMA 2012, in which she challenged a Twins duo. Her entry, ‘Verjamen’ (English: I Believe) may sound very similar to ‘Molitva’, the winning song of Serbia in 2007. The similarities are definately there, the song sounds very much like a fairytale and builds up towards the end. We’re not sure why Snowwhite (awww) has brought her Fairy Godmothers along.(we didn’t know Snowwhite had Fairy godmothers… wrong fairytale?)… because again the set up is very similar to the Serbian entry we referred to, although the Slovenian backing vocals are a let down really. The backing’s solo in the middle of the song is also a pit off-putting to us. Will be interesting to see how this beauty will fare. It’s Slovenia’s 18th attempt to win the Eurovision Song Contest for the very first time.

Croatia: Nina Badrić – Nabo

Nina Badrić was internally selected to represent Croatia at this years Eurovision Song Contest and decided to revamp one of her ballads, which also appears on her latest album. ”Nebo” (Engl. ‘Heaven’) might on a first listen sounds a tough nut to crack and a bit dull, but in fact it’s a rather beautiful song, which grows on you the more you listen to it. Nina is really going for Eurovision success as her ‘No sex until Eurovision is over’ campaign was even mentioned in the English newspapers. (Beat that Russian grannies!) Since the singer’s undergone a surgery on her vocal chords (we don’t think it’s related to the no sex campaign) and has already announced that she will soon hit the studio to record her entry in more languages. Croatia has never won the Eurovision Song Contest before, but came 4th on two occassions; 1996 and 1998.

Our verdict

1 Ukraine

2 Netherlands

3 FYR Macedonia

4 Bulgaria

5 Serbia

6 Croatia

7 Slovenia

8 Malta

9 Belarus

10 Portugal

Coming up next are: Sweden & Georgia

 
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