The day started off with very sad news from Ralph Siegel informing us of the death of CHRIS ROBERTS. Although Chris has never been an entry at Eurovision for Germany, he was well known among many EURO fans who follow German schlager music and songs composed by Ralph Siegel. One of his biggest hits was DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH (of course sang in German and composed by Ralph Siegel). The song was also covered in Danish by one of their most known Eurovision composer KELD HEICK (with his group) and the title is also DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH. In South Africa the song was covered as well and the title DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH was speak although the lyrics are in Afrikaans, and sung in duet form by Carike Keuzenkamp and Johan Stemmet. Chris was at Eurovision as one of a group of 6 singers who represented Luxembourg in 1985 with the song CHILDREN, KINDER, ENFANTS which was also composed by Ralph Siegel
Alzanley is a young and passionate performer! Alzanley will be finishing school this year and is excited to jump into her music career! She has performed in the barnyard showcase 2016 and was awarded as the winner of the ‘other languages’. She sang in the finals for ‘Sing for the stars 2017’ and is currently participating in the OAK Youth theater production of Cinderella.
She is working on an Afrikaans cover of the 2017 United Kingdom Eurovision song NEVER GIVE UP ON YOU which was performed by Lucie Jones in Kyiv and one of the composers is Emmelie de Forest who won Eurovision in 2013 for Denmark with Only teardrops.
Here are some updates and highlights in the Press Centre at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev on 6 May 2017.
We have Brendan Murray from Ireland with two young girls and sparkling glasses. There is Valentina and Jimmy from San Marino with composer Ralph Siegel. Also, there is Anja Nissen from Denmark
Anja Nissen will represent Denmark at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest with her anthemic ballad Where I Am. Today she has released the ‘Where I Am – EP’ consisting of her Eurovision entry and five brand new songs.
Anja has taken great pride in composing the songs herself and she explained they mean a lot to her with personal feelings attached to them and they are uplifting and feel good that Eurovision fans should enjoy.
We have received the country voting of KOSOVO, and we are publishing it, although it has arrived after the close of votes so this won’t be included in the final. Thank you to Albert for sending it to us
The second last of our country voting and it is the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – unfortunately not too many have voted but we are still happy that some did vote
1 point – Latvia
2 points – Austria
3 points – Malta
4 points – Norway
5 points – United Kingdom
6 points – Russia
7 points – Denmark
8 points – Estonia
10 points – Azerbaijan
12 points – Croatia
We now report the voting from MEXICO who had a record number of 246 fans voting. It is the 26th country to vote and there will just be two more and then we close off.
