Cole van Dais covered the 2010 Eurovision entry from Azerbaijan WHEN THE MUSIC DIES in Afrikaans
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COLE VAN DAIS – DUET CD
It has taken more than two years but finally the duet CD of Cole van Dais is ready and will be released in January 2018. We will write about it in more detail ahead of the release but now we want to show the cover which has just been finished. Interesting is the signatures of the various duet partners.
SAN MARINO VIDEOS – PROGRESS
It is a few days since the first videos have been uploaded by 1in360 for San Marino 2018 Eurovision selection. ESCCover have looked at about 30% of the videos – in time we will get to everyone.
Obviously being a South African based website our first focus was on the entries from South Africa – unfortunately just 3 of them. We can report that Cole van Dais in duet with Orpan of Thailand has reached the magical 100 LIKES. Andre van Wyngaart is standing at 76 likes and we hope he will reach 100 soon. Christian Heath the 3rd entry, still has some way to go but we hope he will reach 100 likes also before the closing date. Of course we hope for more SA entries.
Secondly our attention went to other entries from Africa especially in the light of the upcoming Afri music song contest and quite a few surprised us. A little disappointed over the low amount of likes for the combined entry of Namibia/Germany but hopefully it will reach 100 likes as well.
We also looked at some from Malta and are happy that Kurt has passed the 100 likes (currently at 117) and the brother/sister duo stands at 92.
One from China has just reached the 100 like mark.
We also support Sergey Sysuev from Ukraine and hope his likes increased.
A surprise is one from Italy with already 350 likes – a fun video about BI POLAR.
There is also an interesting one from Columbia with 257 likes already.
From the look of it the top 3 in terms of likes are
3 – David Vardanov of Armenia with 813
2 – Sarah of Ireland with 926
1 – Justin Utley from the United States of America with 1202.
A lot can still happen before the deadline but we will continue to look – thumbs up to San Marino for this initiative.
SAN MARINO – VIDEOS BECOME AVAILABLE
As from tomorrow (1 November) Eurovision fans will be able to see the songs/videos being uploaded who wants to be in line to represent SAN MARINO at the 2018 Eurovision song contest in Lisbon next year. So far we are aware of just one South African artist who have uploaded a song – Cole van Dais. We really hope once the process starts, we will find several others.
AFRI MUSIC SONG CONTEST – COLE VAN DAIS
We have decided to give some promotion to the Afrikaans artists who have registered to take part in the first Afric music song contest. We will try and highlight each and every artist who have already registered. We will do it at random and first up is COLE VAN DAIS. Besides registering as a solo artist, she is registered in duets with several artists as well as part of a trio. Cole has covered many Eurovision songs already.
As solo artist she has done
Azerbaijan 2012 as Wanneer die musiek verdwyn
Cyprus 1987 as Die eiland
Denmark 2007 as Glans prinses
Denmark 2013 as Waar in die wereld is jy (which features a part in Danish)
France 1987 as Leef in my hart
Georgia 2008 as Vrede sal kom
Iceland 1987 as Dink aan my
Romania 2009 as Suid-Afrikaanse meisies
San Marino 2013 as Drome van my hart
As one member of a duo
with Katrina (of the waves) Love shine a light – UK 1997
with Joran Steinhauer (of Aarzemnieki) Dinge dong (part in Latvian) – 1975
with Organ Prawang (of Thailand) Dear friend – Croatia 1995 (partly in Thai)
with Marc Rantseli Peace will come – Georgia 2008 (a duet in 4 languages – Afrikaans, English, Zulu and Spanish)
with Emmanuel Castis Ek’s so lief vir jou – UK 2016
with Sergey Sysuev (of Ukraine) Spirit of the night – San Marino 2017 (part in Russian)
with Righardt Greyling Kom saam met my – Latvia 2004
as DUO AFRICA (with a singer from Nigeria) – Moleyho – Belarus 2013 (part in a local language of Nigeria)
as CHESS GIRLS – Op die dansvloer – Germany 2013 (Afrikaans, German and Tsonga)
Lastly as part of AFRICA SENSATION TRIO – City lights – Belgium 2017 (part of the song in Xhosa)
We wish Cole a lot of luck in Afri music song contest and cannot wait to hear all the entries.
AFRI MUSIC SONG CONTEST – 3rd SA registration (Cole van Dais)
Cole van Dais became the 3rd South African artist to register. She has indicated that since she is busy with a DUET CD, her songs will all be duets, Euro covers and even with foreign singers. The first one she registered is with Sergey Sysuev from the Ukraine. And they will do the 2017 Eurovision song from San Marino, SPIRIT OF THE NIGHT, originally sung by Valentina Monetta and Jimmie Wilson. It is of course a song composed by German composer Ralph Siegel who has over 100 of his songs covered in South Africa. Afri music song contest is only open to singers outside of AFRICA if they are in duet with someone from Africa and then the song is entered for the country of origin of the African duet partner. But this is another way to involve especially Eurovision singers to be part of this contest and help it grow.
SPIRIT OF THE NIGHT – POTENTIAL COVER
We started working today on a new exotic duet – between Cole van Dais of South Africa and Sergey Sysuev of Ukraine. They will cover the 2017 Eurovision song of San Marino Spirit of the night. It will be in at least three languages with Sergey singing his bit in one language, Cole singing her bit in another language and together the chorus will be in English. We hope it will be done within the next 3-4 weeks.
NAVI BAND – STORY OF MY LIFE
In their second press conference in Kyiv, Navi band mentioned that they want to record a song or two in an African language. ESCCovers will try and get in touch with them to pitch some songs in Sotho, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, etc to them or get someone to write lyrics in one of these languages to their song STORY OF MY LIFE for them to record. Here is Cole holding one of the gifts Naviband handed to journalists in Kyiv.
COLE VAN DAIS – also a friend of MY FRIEND
Cole van Dais came to visit to hear all about Eurovision 2017. She also loves the song from Croatia and posed with items from Croatia. Her new duet CD is almost complete and will be available soon. It does contain an euro cover from Croatia, 1995, otherwise she would have done MY FRIEND in duet as well.
OGAE FAN STAND – KYIV, UKRAINE
OGAE Finland was very active at the OGAE fan stand in Kyiv during the Eurovision song contest and ESCCovers met up with Petteri Hilska from Finland but working in France. He was doing a shift at the fan stand and we rewarded him with a CD by Cole van Dias, a singer from South Africa. On this CD Cole songs various Euro covers, among them one of France.
