The OGAE Second Chance Contest 2016 kicked off on 1st of June and members of OGAE Rest of the World can still vote! We are now at the halftime – the deadline for send your vote is 30/06/2016 midnight CET.
To vote, you have to rate all the entries, giving them a point between 0 and 5, except the song No. 9 which represents Rest of the World (and of course, Hungary), so if you rate it, it doesn’t count…
We ask you to send your votes to escvotes@gmail.com until the deadline. If you vote, you’ll earn 10 points for 2017 Ticket List.
Here’s the playlist of this year’s 23 competitors:
01 Belgium I’m not lost Tom Frantzis 02 Belarus My universe NAPOLI 03 Ukraine Helpless The Hardkiss 04 Albania Liroje Zemrën Besa Krasniqi 05 Malta Golden Brooke 06 UK Shine a little light Bianca 07 Lithuania Leading me home Erica Jennings 08 Italy Cieli immensi Patty Pravo 09 Rest Of the World (Hungary) Who we are Kállay Saunders Band 10 Sweden Save me Wiktoria 11 Denmark Never Alone Anja Nissen 12 Austria I’ll be around Elly V 13 Latvia We will be stars MyRadiantU 14 Switzerland Half a smile Vincent Gross 15 Norway Laika The Hungry Hearts 16 Slovenia Črno bel Raiven 17 Estonia Supersonic Laura 18 Finland On it goes Mikael Saari 19 Israel Somebody out there Ella Daniel 20 Romania Behind the shadows Florena 21 Poland Cool me down Margaret 22 Germany Mystery of a blood red rose Avantasia 23 Spain La vida sólo es una María Isabel
10 acts have been announced to take part in the German selection, Unser Lied für Stockholm, to find their representative for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden.
The 10 acts and song titles are –
Avantasia – Mystery Of A Blood Red Rose
Alex Diehl – Nur ein Lied
Ella Endlich – Adrenalin
Gregorian – Masters Of Chant
Jamie-Lee Kriewitz – Ghost
Joco – Full Moon
Keøma – Protected
Laura Pinski – Under The Sun We Are One
Luxuslärm – Solange Liebe in mir wohnt
Woods of Birnam – Lift Me Up (From The Underground)
Eurovision veterans Ralph Siegel and John O’Flynn have composed the song for Laura Pinski.
Germany waited like forever for their second win and it came in the form of Satellite from Lena Meyer-Landrut in 2010 with SATELLITE.This song surprisingly made it above the Nicole winner into our top 12.
Eurovision Song Contest 2016 {copyright: EBU/www.eurovision.tv}
This week has seen a lot of activity in the world of the Eurovision Song Contest. The EBU have confirmed there will be 43 nations competing in the 2016 event in Stockholm. We see the return of Australia, Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Ukraine.
Germany confirmed the withdrawal of their offer to Xavier Naidoo to represent them in Sweden.
FYR Macedonia confirm that Kaliopi will once again represent them at Eurovision.
Bosnia-Herzegovina will be represented by Dalal Midhat Talakić, Fuad Backović-Deen and Ana Rucner. Deen represented his country in the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest in Turkey.
Germany have internally selected Xavier Naidoo to represent them at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden. There will be a national final on 18 February where Xavier will perform six songs. Songwriters and producers have been invited to prepare their submissions now.
Xavier is an established soul and r’n’b performer in Germany. He has had many hits in his home country including the number one song Ich kenne nichts (das so schön ist wie du) in 2003. You can see the official video for that song below.
OGAE Rest of the world will send one inclusive vote to OGAE International to be published first on the OGAE website but because we have several individual countries inside R O W, we have allowed them to vote as a country as well and we will publish such votes if we receive a voting picture from such a country. We got the first such voting picture, from our members in COSTA RICA and here is how these members have voted.
It is GERMANY now and their 2009 entry MISS KISS KISS BANG, originally sung by ALEX SWINGS, OSCAR SINGS. The South African cover has an international connection with PATRICIA LEWIS doing it in duet with American celebrity DAVID HASSELHOFF. This is quite interesting as David had several number one hits in Austria.
