Latvia picked their 2015 entry last night. On the anniversary compilation, we are using their 2007 song QUESTA NOTTE originally sung by Bonaparti.lv. The Afrikaans cover is by three brothers who go under the name on QUALITRIO.
I am putting up a mail we just got from Jan from Slovenia. This is what we love and anybody you have done euro covers, no matter from what country and whatever song you did, we will feature it. This is the main purpose of the website, COVERS.
It’s Jan here from Slovenia, I noticed your website – first of all thanks for Ogae RoW FB team, who published my first Eurovision cover on their facebook page – it was Russian 2014 Eurovision entry “Shine”, which was covered by me & my little sister Linda, available here: http://soundcloud.com/vehar-jan/tolmachevy-sisters-shine-cover-by-jan-lindaA bit more than week ago I actually released one more cover, which is not really Eurovision, but it was part of Melodifestivalen 2007 – it’s “Cara Mia”, originally performed by Måns Zelmerlöw. Cover is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQN4_y3_AJk
If you can help us with promotion with boths songs, we would be more than thankful!Best regards,
Jan Vehar, Slovenia
Last night, the Final of Supernova took place, choosing the Latvian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2015. Four finalists took part in the show and in the end Aminata Savadogo took the crown and will be flying the Latvian flag in Vienna with her entry Love Injected.
Aminata missed out on representing Latvia last year when she came 5th in the national selection show which was won by Aarzemneiki. Will 2015 be Latvia’s year? Will they reach the Final in Vienna?
Now it is the turn of Italy and the song is their 2013 song L’ESSENZIALE sung by Marco Mengoni. The cover of the song by HENRY VAN DYK is a combination of Italian and Afrikaans.
In the run-up to the Norwegian selection and the duet between Tor and Elisabeth a song contender as both have been at Eurovision for Norway, it is time to listen to some of their previous songs. The covers of the two CD’s are sort of greatest hits that came out around the years they represented Norway and I got both personally from the artists at Eurovision. Their duet gets my vote for Norway 2015.
Next up is IRELAND and how can be not look at the impact JEDWARD caused? Their 2011 song LIPSTICK has been chosen and the Afrikaans cover is by ANDRE HUYSAMEN
We are now at song 9, which comes from ICELAND, their 2004 entry HEAVEN sang by Jonsi. The Afrikaans cover is called KAAPSTAD (Cape Town) and is sung by Tobi Jooste