News for tag: 2009
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Igor Cukrov and Andrea rehearsed their song Lijepa Tena for the second time today for Croatia. The stage setting is very dark as are the outfits worn by the performers.
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The Bosnian language is a very melodic one indeed. Regina showed that in their song Bistra Voda which they rehearsed today for the second time. They transmited strong feelings of love and romantic, and they delivered a confident performance.
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Yesterday evening at Euroclub, Belarus hosted the first of the 2009 delegation parties. Hosts of the party were Dima Koldun, who himself performed in the contest for Belarus in 2007, and Anastasia Tihanovich.
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Today the Eurovision.tv team draw the names of the winners of the quiz about the 2009 Estonian entrant for the Eurovision Song Contest! The winners will receive a copy of their promotional single.
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For the second round of rehearsals, many countries change details in the backdrop of their stage show. For Malta, the LED screens had a more varied colour for Friday's rehearsal.But Chara saves her stage costume for the dress rehearsals.
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The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) said today that it could not accept an entry from Legoland to the Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow next week, despite a personal appeal by a man calling himself 'Legoman' at EBU headquarters in Geneva. A delegation purporting to represent Legoland entered the Geneva headquarters of the EBU, which organizes the popular annual contest, and asked to see the Director of Eurovision TV.
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When the Portuguese representatives Flor-de-Lis took the stage for their second rehearsal, the hall was suddenly filled with an air of happiness. Once again, the band members delivered a cheerful and convincing performance, and, for the first time, they performed in the actual dresses they will wear on the night of the First Semi-Final.
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Waldo's People are one of Finland's most successful dance acts. Their last two albums - one of it being a "Best of" collection - reached the official Finnish top 40 charts. Paranoid is their latest release and it cracked the top 20 earlier in February. Their Eurovision Song Contest attempt Lose Control deals with a sensitive issue of today - homelessness.
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Romania kicked off the rehearsal schedule for day six. Elena Gheorghe and her Balkan girls revealed a little more about how their show is going to look in the First Semi-Final of the Eurovision Song Contest.
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Alexander Rybak admits that wearing the Norwegian flag on his chest, representing his country in this years Eurovision Song Contest is a dream come true for him, in a way his own Fairytale!.
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Later than usual - but after a lot of excitement! - Channel One Russia and the European Broadcasting Union officially announced the hosts of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest.
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For some countries, the entries' evolution doesn't end. Romania's Elena used one concept for the national selection with her Balkan Girls, another for the video and a third for the stage in Moscow. And even now, after the first rehearsal, the concept is evolving – for the next rehearsal on Friday many things will be changed.
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Today the first part of the participants of the first Semi-Final had the second chance to rehearse on the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest stage in Moscow.
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Most participants test the stage costumes in at lest one of the closed rehearsals. But when Next Time rehearsed their Nešto Što Ke Ostane for the second time on Thursday, the artists were still in their regular garments.
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Yohanna from Iceland has been mentioned as one of the outsiders for this year's Eurovision Song Contest. Her melancholic ballad Is It True builds up dramatically till the end and many experts give her a good chance of progressing to the final. One of her backing singers this year, Friðrik Omar, achieved this goal last year as part of Euroband - will Yohanna follow his footsteps?
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