It is now 12 days to the 2024 Eurovision final in Malmo, Sweden. For 20 days running I will highlight one song from each of the last 20 years and I have started with 2004. Now with 12 days to go it this the 2012 Eurovision. Continue reading EUROVISION 2024 – MALMO COUNT DOWN TO THE FINAL – 12 days to go
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LITESOUND OF BELARUS – SAD STORY
It is no secret that the group LITESOUND of BELARUS is one of the top favourite artists of ESC Covers. Roy met them in 2012 in Baku and they became friends on Facebook. Continue reading LITESOUND OF BELARUS – SAD STORY
BELARUS IN EUROVISION – 2012
Belarus’ Eurovision broadcaster BTRC has been expelled from the European Broadcasting Union. This rules out a Belarusian participation in Italy 2022 and makes Belarus’ return to the Eurovision Song contest and the Junior Eurovision Song contest extremely unlikely.
Let’s take a look at what Belarus has brought to the Eurovision Song Contest since 2004.
EK WIL JOU HELD WEES – DIRK LAZENBY
One of the posts we lost yesterday and which we now re-do, is about the sad news of the death of DIRK LAZENBY from complications of Covid 19.
Dirk was a singer from Cape Town. He covered in 2017 two Eurovision songs for ESC Covers, one of them is the 2012 Eurovision entry from BELARUS.
The original song is WE ARE THE HEROES by LITESOUND. Dirk’s Afrikaans cover is called EK WIL JOU HELD WEES.
Barry Tsai of ESC Covers is busy revamping the YouTube Channel and he did a video for us of Dirk’s cover.
Vasya Boykova and her support for Belarus with ‘My Hieroi’
Vasya Boykova has recorded My Hieroi (We Are The Heroes) in support and solidarity of the people with the current situation of protests in Belarus. The song is a cover of the Litesound anthemic Eurovision hit, We Are The Heroes, from 2012.
Vasya is from Ukraine and she took part with many people in a day of action in Kiev support of their Belarussian neighbours.
Vasya has a nice and clear vocal and she has recorded several quality covers of songs including covers of three songs from the 2020 Eurovision – Fall From The Sky (Albania), Empires (Poland) and Fai rumore (Italy).
Italian songs are also a speciality for Vasya. She recently recorded Meraviglioso amore mio by Arisa and the evergreen Ti Amo by Umberto Tozzi.
You can listen to more of Vasya’s songs at her YouTube channel – (1) Vasya & Nina Boykova – YouTube
Check out My Hieroi, Ti Amo and Meraviglioso amore mio below.
Source: ESC Covers
BELARUS ELECTIONS AND NEW SONG BY LITESOUND
Underneath press release from Dima, the lead singer of the 2012 Belorussian Eurovision group Litesound in regards to their new song which was released connected to the presidential elections. AS we got the press release only today, the elections took place yesterday and the results are known with the current president winning with 80% of the vote. ESC Covers are giving our support to the people of Belarus.
Human right violation during the Belorussian election process forced Eurovision 2012 contestants Litesound to record a song that appeal to the people of BelarusEverything has its own cycle, events tend to repeat and different generations experience the same feelings. As a proof of this there is a stunning Belorussian poem “To the Belarusian people”, written by Yakub Kolas exactly 100 years ago with its heart touching piercingness. This, along with the evidences of human rights violation during the election process taking place in modern Belarus, inspired Litesound band to record a manifesto song addressed to the Belarusian people at this difficult hour for our country.
Today Litesound say to the world that people of Belarus are willing to be freeLitesound’s leader Dmitry Karakin says: «Since I was born, I had gained a belief in goodness, a craving for freedom and equality, and a burning sense of injustice that forced me to stand up for the weak, even if it was a tough price to pay for it.
But I know what honor is, and that it cannot be sold in a face of fear. I know what it means to live without deception and conscientiously.
This summer of 2020 put everything into place. I had to grow up mentally and look critically at the еhings that seemed unimportant to me or did not concern me before.
This summer of 2020 put everything into place. I had to grow up mentally and look critically at the еhings that seemed unimportant to me or did not concern me before.
Today is a terrible hour. Each of us is aware of this and understands that in the face of merciless force we can only withstand being single wall – each for all, and all for each! With us are those who have not betrayed their conscience, who believe in the ideals of freedom and democracy. With us are those who can commit compassion, empathize, sympathize.
And we are in the majority! We believe that we ourselves are the blacksmiths of our will and freedom! Freedom of our native land, Belarus!
The great Belarusian writer and poet Yakub Kolas felt the same feelings as we do exactly 100 years ago. The people, under the yoke of invaders and strangers, longed for freedom and independence from their oppressors. And the lines of his poems was making me weep, looking at the horrible composure and cruelty with which the Belarusian authorities deal with us and our will!
The great Belarusian writer and poet Yakub Kolas felt the same feelings as we do exactly 100 years ago. The people, under the yoke of invaders and strangers, longed for freedom and independence from their oppressors. And the lines of his poems was making me weep, looking at the horrible composure and cruelty with which the Belarusian authorities deal with us and our will!
And today the unbroken spirit of the people, the unshakable courage of three women Svetlana Tikhonovskaya, Veronica Zepkalo and Maria Kolesnikova heroically fighting for us and for their loved ones, has breathed into us a feeling of majestic reverence and patriotism!
It was all this that gave us inspiration of inconceivable power, which we want to share in our new song, written to the piercing poems of Yakub Kolas To Belarusians People!»
It was all this that gave us inspiration of inconceivable power, which we want to share in our new song, written to the piercing poems of Yakub Kolas To Belarusians People!»
Listen and share this wonderful job made by Litesoundhttps://youtu.be/SE2p5iJBcTs
WE ARE THE HEROES – LITESOUND (Belorussian version)
ESC Covers have been informed about a Belarus language version of Litesound Eurovision entry We are the heroes. They have recorded it in light of mass protests in Belarus against unfair election, where major candidates have been arrested to clear the road for current president.
EUROVISION COVER – WE ARE THE HEROES (Afrikaans)
Jan-Mattys van Lill covered the 2012 Belarus Eurovision song WE ARE THE HEROES of Litesound in Afrikaans as VEG TOT DIE EINDE
EUROVISION COVER – A MILLION VOICES (English)
Polina Gagarina sang A MILLION VOICES at the 2015 Eurovision song contest for Russia. Litesound (who represented Belarus in 2012) teamed up with ALEX KOLCHIN and covered the song but also in English.
TOP 50 MILLENNIUM SONGS (position 35)
The 2012 Eurovision entry from Belarus WE ARE THE HEROES by Litesound ends up as our 35th best song. The song was covered in Afrikaans by Jan-Mattys van Lill in 2012 and a second cover in Afrikaans was done in 2017 by Dirk Lazenby.