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COVER2COVER PROMOTIONAL PLATFORM

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Since Monday 28 September, the ESC COVERS website (with our partners Eurovision coverage, EuroVisionMusic, Destination Eurovision and the radio station x5 stereo) started promoting the COVER2COVER concept. It is not a competition anymore but a promotion platform and hopefully South African artists will send covers to us. The 3 entries we received, Helena, Anton and Marle, will be carried over to the coverage. Victor Bush is once again our model and he will be holding promo items, CD’s and bags of some of the entries from the Eurovision song contest. The sixth one is of GEORGIA. It was not for a specific entry as such but brought more to promote Georgia as a country, a tourist destination.

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COVER2COVER PROMOTIONAL PLATFORM

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Since Monday 28 September, the ESC COVERS website (with our partners Eurovision coverage, EuroVisionMusic, Destination Eurovision and the radio station x5 stereo) started promoting the COVER2COVER concept. It is not a competition anymore but a promotion platform and hopefully South African artists will send covers to us. The 3 entries we received, Helena, Anton and Marle, will be carried over to the coverage. Victor Bush is once again our model and he will be holding promo items, CD’s and bags of some of the entries from the Eurovision song contest. The fifth one is of THE CZECH REPUBLIC 2017, MY TURN of MARTINA BARTA  with a promo CD package and bag.

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COVER2COVER PROMOTIONAL PLATFORM

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Since Monday 28 September, the ESC COVERS website (with our partners Eurovision coverage, EuroVisionMusic, Destination Eurovision and the radio station x5 stereo) started promoting the COVER2COVER concept. It is not a competition anymore but a promotion platform and hopefully South African artists will send covers to us. The 3 entries we received, Helena, Anton and Marle, will be carried over to the coverage. Victor Bush is once again our model and he will be holding promo items, CD’s and bags of some of the entries from the Eurovision song contest. The forth one is of MOLDOVA 2018, MY LUCKY DAY of DoReDoS  with a promo CD package and bag. Cole van Dais and Pieter Kotze also covered My lucky day in a combination of Spanish and Afrikaans. We just reported yesterday on a brand new song and video from DoReDoS.

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COVER2COVER PROMOTIONAL PLATFORM

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Since Monday 28 September, the ESC COVERS website (with our partners Eurovision coverage, EuroVisionMusic, Destination Eurovision and the radio station x5 stereo) started promoting the COVER2COVER concept. It is not a competition anymore but a promotion platform and hopefully South African artists will send covers to us. The 3 entries we received, Helena, Anton and Marle, will be carried over to the coverage. Victor Bush is once again our model and he will be holding promo items, CD’s and bags of some of the entries from the Eurovision song contest. The third one is of BELARUS 2019, LIKE IT of ZENA with a promo CD package and bag. Hope you like it.

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COVER2COVER PROMOTIONAL PLATFORM

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Since yesterday, the ESC COVERS website (with our partners Eurovision coverage, EuroVisionMusic, Destination Eurovision and the radio station x5 stereo) started promoting the COVER2COVER concept. It is not a competition anymore but a promotion platform and hopefully South African artists will send covers to us. The 3 entries we received, Helena, Anton and Marle, will be carried over to the coverage. Victor Bush is once again our model and he will be holding promo items, CD’s and bags of some of the entries from the Eurovision song contest. The second one is of SERBIA 2009, CIPELA of MARKO KON & MILAAN with a promo CD package with several language versions of the entry (which means SHOE). Victor was happy that he got to show off his new shoes in this picture.

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COVER2COVER – PROMOTIONAL PLATFORM

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From today onward ESC COVERS website (with our partners Eurovision coverage, EuroVisionMusic, Destination Eurovision and the radio station x5 stereo) will again start promoting the COVER2COVER concept. It is not a competition anymore but a promotion platform and hopefully South African artists will send covers to us. The 3 entries we received, Helena, Anton and Marle, will be carried over to the coverage. Victor Bush will again be our model and he will holding promo items, CD’s and bags of some of the entries from the Eurovision song contest. The first one is of CROATIA 2017, MY FRIEND of JACQUES HOUDEK with a promo CD we designed (as only a USB stick was handed out) and a beautiful My Friend bag which contained a chocolate.

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LA MAMMA – HELENA HETTEMA

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Helena Hettema wrote the following for ESC Covers.

‘ La Mamma’ was a song written in 1962 by American French singer Charles Aznavour and also sung by Dutch singer Corry Brokken (who in 1957 won the second edition of the Eurovision song festival with the song ‘Net als toe’ representing the Netherlands).

My father came to South Africa from the Netherlands at the age of five in 1938, on a ship with his mother Leeuwkje and his father arrived in SA inv1939 two weeks before the outbreak of WW11.

As a child I grew up with the music of the continental and European  greats  such as Piaf, Brel, Aznavour and Matthieu as well as Corry Brokken.

Likewise, as a child my father grew up with Corry’s music which his mother Leeuwkje also loved, and he would often say I should sing this mesmerizing song about the gypsy queen who is facing her death with the beloved gypsy caravans coming across the land from far and wide to pay tribute to their queen in her last hours.

At last, during lockdown as part of my show ‘Divine ‘, we recorded ‘La Mamma’ as tribute to my Dutch heritage. I sing ‘La Mamma’ for my beloved father, Jan Hettema legendary double Springbok – cyclist and rally driver who died tragically on the 29th of June 2016.

Helena entered this song in the ESC Covers COVER2COVER promotional platform.

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COVER2COVER – T-SHIRT

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On 23rd August 2020 we (ESC Covers, EuroVisionMusic, Eurovision Coverage and Destination Eurovision) started publishing pictures of  VICTOR BUSH modeling a Eurovision t-shirt and holding the promo material for that entry. It is to make artists aware of entering the COVER2COVER SINGING contest we were arranging. Having received just 3 entries by the end of August – one in each of the 3 categories, it was clear we cannot have a competition with just 3 local entries. We had a rethink over the concept. As of 1 October, the COVER2COVER concept will change but it won’t be a competition anymore. It will be a PROMOTION PLATFORM where we will give exposure and promotion to any Eurovision related cover – an artist can send us any such song whether it is a professional video, a home video of just an audio video. There are also no limit on how many songs/videos an artist can send. The closing date will be 28 February 2021 so we can look at all entries ahead of the 2021 Eurovision song contest in Rotterdam in May 2021. A radio station RADIO 5XSTEREO has joined us as a partner. Today we publish the 20th t-shirt. We are then taking a break until 1 October when the PROMOTION PLATFORM starts and will then publish the remaining 10 t-shirts and 10 Eurovision bags. So the 20th t-shirt is one is from 2018 Eurovision song contest in Lisbon, Portugal together together with the official double CD.

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COVER2COVER – T-SHIRT

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On 23rd August 2020 we (ESC Covers, EuroVisionMusic, Eurovision Coverage and Destination Eurovision) started publishing pictures of  VICTOR BUSH modeling a Eurovision t-shirt and holding the promo material for that entry. It is to make artists aware of entering the COVER2COVER SINGING contest we were arranging. Having received just 3 entries by the end of August – one in each of the 3 categories, it was clear we cannot have a competition with just 3 local entries. We had a rethink over the concept. As of 1 October, the COVER2COVER concept will change but it won’t be a competition anymore. It will be a PROMOTION PLATFORM where we will give exposure and promotion to any Eurovision related cover – an artist can send us any such song whether it is a professional video, a home video of just an audio video. There are also no limit on how many songs/videos an artist can send. The closing date will be 28 February 2021 so we can look at all entries ahead of the 2021 Eurovision song contest in Rotterdam in May 2021. A radio station RADIO 5XSTEREO will be joining us as a partner. We continue publishing the t-shirts at random and the 19th one is from 2016 Eurovision song contest in Stockholm, Sweden. This t-shirt celebrates the names of all the entries of that year together with the official double CD and the press bag. In total we will publish around 30 t-shirts and after that about 10 pictures of promotional Eurovision bags for a bit of variety.

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COVER2COVER – T-SHIRT

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On 23rd August 2020 we (ESC Covers, EuroVisionMusic, Eurovision Coverage and Destination Eurovision) started publishing pictures of  VICTOR BUSH modeling a Eurovision t-shirt and holding the promo material for that entry. It is to make artists aware of entering the COVER2COVER SINGING contest we were arranging. Having received just 3 entries by the end of August – one in each of the 3 categories, it was clear we cannot have a competition with just 3 local entries. We had a rethink over the concept. The COVER2COVER concept will change but it won’t be a competition anymore with a closing date. It will be a PROMOTION PLATFORM where we will give exposure and promotion to any Eurovision related cover – an artist can send us any such song whether it is a professional video, a home video of just an audio video. There are also no limit on how many songs/videos an artist can send. We continue publishing the t-shirts at random and the 18th one is from SWITZERLAND. This t-shirt celebrates the 2006 Eurovision entry from SWITZERLAND – the song is called IF WE ALL GIVE A LITTLE by SIX4ONE.  Six  artists from six different countries and the song composed by Ralph Siegel. In total we will publish around 30 t-shirts and after that about 10 pictures of promotional Eurovision bags for a bit of variety.

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