A new name on the South African music scene is DEON GROOT. Sony South Africa has just released his first CD which is called GEE MY OOR. Most of the 12 songs on the CD have been written by him, but one of them is a cover of a Eurovision songs. Unfortunately it is not a cover of new song but this song has been covered years ago for the first and and has become a classic with more 12 other people also covering it. The original song is Germany’s 1985 Eurovision entry FUR ALLE by WIND which reached 2nd place at the contest. The most successful Afrikaans cover was done by ANDRE SCHWARTZ – he called it LIEF VIR ALLES HIER (In love with everything here). Now this Deon Groot covers it as well in a different style than the Andre version.
He has used several backing singers and two of them have Eurovision connection, BURGERD BOTHA who was part of Romanz and LEE SCOTT who covered at least 3 songs from 2009.
Burgerd Botha’s song “Hartlagsiel” has been released on 28 Platforms worldwide:
Just do a search on any platform for “Burgerd Botha Hartlagsiel”
Here’s a few:
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iTunes links
US – https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hartlagsiel-single/id1077480457
GB – https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/hartlagsiel-single/id1077480457
ZA – https://itunes.apple.com/za/album/hartlagsiel-single/id1077480457
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Google Play Music
– https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bzc67srvmj4rxxrcdwktivz2ery
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CD Baby
– http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/burgerdbotha2
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Amazon mp3
– http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01AYP14Q4/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?qid=1454101684&sr=1-3&pi=SL75_QL70&keywords=Burgerd
Burgerd was originally a member of ROMANZ who covered the Georgia 2013 entry WATERFALL as WATERVAL. Then he did several euro covers together in a duo with ZITA – among them Croatia 1995. Now he is a solo singer and hopefully he will cover a euro song as a solo singer – then he will become the first singer to have done a cover in all three forms – solo, duo and group.
HARTLAGSIEL (heart-smile/laugh-soul) is an own composition and will become the South African entry to the 2016 WORLD SONG FESTIVAL.
Fans of Eurovision Song Contest cover songs
