On Saturday 25 July 2020 ESC COVERS will launch the COVER2COVER competition. In category one are 14 songs by South African artists that are covers of EUROVISION songs (actual entries or selection songs or Eurovision related because of the original artist who was an entry at Eurovision or by the composers who had written a Eurovision entry). We will list all 14 in the next days, the Afrikaans cover plus the original song.
The eighth song is EK LEWE by ANNELI VAN ROOYEN plus the original song JOANA by ROLAND KAISER.
This is not an actual Eurovision entry but some of the composers of the song had written songs for several Eurovision selection songs.
On Saturday 25 July 2020 ESC COVERS will launch the COVER2COVER competition. In category one are 14 songs by South African artists that are covers of EUROVISION songs (actual entries or selection songs or Eurovision related because of the original artist who was an entry at Eurovision or by the composers who had written a Eurovision entry). We will list all 14 in the next days, the Afrikaans cover plus the original song.
The seventh song is JULIA by MANIE JACKSON plus the original song KOMM MIT MIR NACH VENEDIG by G G ANDERSON.
This is not an actual Eurovision entry but G G ANDERSON took part in 1988 in the German Eurovision selection with Hattest du heut’zeit fur mich.
On Saturday 25 July 2020 ESC COVERS will launch the COVER2COVER competition. In category one are 14 songs by South African artists that are covers of EUROVISION songs (actual entries or selection songs or Eurovision related because of the original artist who was an entry at Eurovision or by the composers who had written a Eurovision entry). We will list all 14 in the next days, the Afrikaans cover plus the original song.
The six song is LIEF VIR ALLES HIER by ANDRE SCHWARTZ plus the original song FUR ALLE by WIND.
This is a Eurovision entry. WIND represented GERMANY in 1985 at the Eurovision song contest. Andre covered it in Afrikaans and is regarded by many Euro fans as a classic.
On Saturday 25 July 2020 ESC COVERS will launch the COVER2COVER competition. In category one are 14 songs by South African artists that are covers of EUROVISION songs (actual entries or selection songs or Eurovision related because of the original artist who was an entry at Eurovision or by the composers who had written a Eurovision entry). We will list all 14 in the next days, the Afrikaans cover plus the original song.
The fifth song is DIT IS ‘N WONDER by DANA WINNER plus the original song HET IS EEN WONDER by LINDA WILLIAMS.
This is a Eurovision entry. LINDA WILLIAMS represented THE NETHERLANDS in 1981 at the Eurovision song contest. Dana Winner, from Belgium, covered it in Afrikaans.
On Saturday 25 July 2020 ESC COVERS will launch the COVER2COVER competition. In category one are 14 songs by South African artists that are covers of EUROVISION songs (actual entries or selection songs or Eurovision related because of the original artist who was an entry at Eurovision or by the composers who had written a Eurovision entry). We will list all 14 in the next days, the Afrikaans cover plus the original song.
The forth song is ‘N TIKKIE VRYHEID by RINA HUGO plus the original song ,MEINE KLEINE FREIHEIT by NICOLE.
This is not an actual Eurovision entry but NICOLE won the Eurovision song contest in 1982 with Ein bisschien frieden and the composers of that song also wrote this song. In fact the two composers Ralph Siegel (music) and Bernd Meininger wrote many Eurovision entries over the years.
On Saturday 25 July 2020 ESC COVERS will launch the COVER2COVER competition. In category one are 14 songs by South African artists that are covers of EUROVISION songs (actual entries or selection songs or Eurovision related because of the original artist who was an entry at Eurovision or by the composers who had written a Eurovision entry). We will list all 14 in the next days, the Afrikaans cover plus the original song.
The third song is DIS ‘N LAND by CARIKE KEUZENKAMP plus the original song LASS MICH NICHT ALLEIN by NICOLE.
This is not an actual Eurovision entry but NICOLE won the Eurovision song contest in 1982 with Ein bisschien frieden and the composers of that song also wrote this song. In fact the two composers Ralph Siegel (music) and Bernd Meininger wrote many Eurovision entries over the years.
On Saturday 25 July 2020 ESC COVERS will launch the COVER2COVER competition. In category one are 14 songs by South African artists that are covers of EUROVISION songs (actual entries or selection songs or Eurovision related because of the original artist who was an entry at Eurovision or by the composers who had written a Eurovision entry). We will list all 14 in the next days, the Afrikaans cover plus the original song.
The second song is LIEFLING by GE KORSTEN plus the original song FRIEDEN by PETER MAFFAY.
This is not an actual Eurovision entry but one of the composers of the song, Michael Kunze had done the lyrics to several songs in Eurovision song contest over the years.
On Saturday 25 July 2020 ESC COVERS will launch the COVER2COVER competition. In category one are 14 songs by South African artists that are covers of EUROVISION songs (actual entries or selection songs or Eurovision related because of the original artist who was an entry at Eurovision or by the composers who had written a Eurovision entry). We will list all 14 in the next days, the Afrikaans cover plus the original song.
First up is REIK NA DIE STERRE by BLES BRIDGES plus the original song ABSCHIED VON DEN STERNEN by ANDREAS MARTIN.
This is not an actual Eurovision entry but the composers of the song had done several songs in Eurovision selections over the years. Andreas Martin also took part in the German Eurovision selection.
About 10 days ago Cole van Dais, a South African singer, contacted ESC Covers with an idea for a video cover competition in these days of lock down over Covid 19. Cole is the South African female who has done the MOST Eurovision covers and is probably in the top 3 worldwide with maybe just Birthe Kjaer of Denmark and Katri Helena of Finland ahead of her. We worked on her idea and developed a COVER 2 COVER competition. This competition will be launched on 25 July, Cole’s birthday. From that day, for a period of 3 months, singers can submit a cover with a lock down video taken with their phone (or other methods) to us. There will be 3 categories. The first 2 are just open for people who sing in AFRIKAANS, the third category is open to anybody world wide who wants to sing a cover in ANY language other than the language in which the song was sung at Eurovision. One of the songs in this category to select from is WATERLOO of ABBA. It was sung in English at the 1974 Eurovision, so people can cover it in ANY other language but English. The details will be made public on 25 July with all the possible songs in each of the 3 categories plus all details on how to enter, obtain the backtrack etc.
The competition is a joint effort by ESC COVERS website of Roy van der Merwe and two facebooks EuroVisionMusic of Nor Bert and Eurovision Coverage of Andy Mikheev. These 3 will also be part of the judging panel. 6 or 7 more people will be added to judge. There will also be an opportunity for ordinary people to cast votes as each video we receive will be published on several Youtube channels etc. There will be a winner in each of the three categories and we look at having the 3 winners battle it out for an OVERALL winner. There will be prizes but that will be announced much later.
The aim now is just to get the competition out there for artists and singers to make a note of it in their diaries. We will do daily posts on the website and 2 facebooks over things and also have on line shows to highlight the entries. This competition is ideal for singers who want to lift their profiles because with it being Eurovision covers, we will try and have it published in as many social media as possible.
