STAR OF THE WEEK is a project by INFE South Africa and INFE Ireland, in which throughout the week the attention is focused on 1 singer, duo or group.
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Tag Archives: Ralph Siegel
AFTER PARTY FOR RALPH SIEGEL ON HIS BIRTHDAY TODAY
RALHP SIEGEL, who has composed more than 20 Eurovision entries in his career, has a birthday today.
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JOHN LAWTON OF THE LES HUMPFRIES SINGERS PASSED AWAY
ESC Covers got the sad news of yet another Eurovision related singer passing away. John Lawton of Les Humphries Singers fame… and Sing Sang Song…passed away on 29th June 2021.
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VALENTINA MONETTA – Birthday
VALENTINA MONETA, who is celebrating a birthday today, represented SAN MARINO 4 times at the Eurovision song contest.
DROME VAN MY HART – COLE VAN DAIS
From today, for the entire month of February, ESC Covers will take every day a South African artist/group/duo on a virtual tour to Europe. We will visit 28 countries.
Special celebration album to Ralph Siegel released – ‘Mehr Als Ein Bisschen Frieden’
On the day of his birthday, ESC Covers would like to tell you about a special album celebration release to Ralph Siegel. The album is called ‘Mehr Als Ein Bisschen Frieden’ (More than a little peace).
It is the ‘the best of the best’ of some of his many compositions over the years. He has composed more than 2,000 hits, including many Eurovision songs. He is Germany’s most successful songwriter. He has had many gold and platinum discs.
This new compilation is a 3 disc set including all the big songs and a new Stereoact hit mix. The album is available to purchase from stores such as Amazon.
Some of the artists included on the album are Nicole, Katja Epstein, Karel Gott, Dschinghis Khan, Rex Gildo, Nana Mouskouri, Marianne Rosenberg and many others.
Let us remind ourselves of Ralph’s big success with Nicole with Ein Bisschen Frieden (A Little Peace) – the winner of the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest for Germany.
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COVER2COVER – T-SHIRT
On 23rd August 2020 we (ESC Covers, EuroVisionMusic, Eurovision Coverage and Destination Eurovision) started publishing pictures of VICTOR BUSH modeling a Eurovision t-shirt and holding the promo material for that entry. It is to make artists aware of entering the COVER2COVER SINGING contest we were arranging. Having received just 3 entries by the end of August – one in each of the 3 categories, it was clear we cannot have a competition with just 3 local entries. We had a rethink over the concept. The COVER2COVER concept will change but it won’t be a competition anymore with a closing date. It will be a PROMOTION PLATFORM where we will give exposure and promotion to any Eurovision related cover – an artist can send us any such song whether it is a professional video, a home video of just an audio video. There are also no limit on how many songs/videos an artist can send. We continue publishing the t-shirts at random and the 18th one is from SWITZERLAND. This t-shirt celebrates the 2006 Eurovision entry from SWITZERLAND – the song is called IF WE ALL GIVE A LITTLE by SIX4ONE. Six artists from six different countries and the song composed by Ralph Siegel. In total we will publish around 30 t-shirts and after that about 10 pictures of promotional Eurovision bags for a bit of variety.
NEW COVER OF A RALPH SIEGEL SONG
The brand new MANIE JACKSON has just been released and on it is a cover of an old Ralph Siegel song – the cover is called SING VAN LIEFDE (sing of love). Pity the CD does not have more covers of German schlager songs on.
EUROVISION CONVENTION – BIANCA SHOMBURG
It is now TIME to look at the 4th artist who will perform at the Eurovision convention in Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
It is BIANCA SHOMBURG who represented Germany at the 1997 Eurovision song contest with the Ralph Siegel and Bernd Meinunger song ZEIT. The English version is called TIME. So Bianca sang about Time long before Belarus had someone in 2015 and Ukraine someone in 2017 singing about TIME. Bianca sounds quite like Celine Dion and it is a pity we have not heard a lot from her in recent years. Maybe she will turn back the time in Frankfurt and sings some fantastic new songs.
EUROVISION CONVENTION – LOU
We move to the second artist who will appear at the Eurovision convention in Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
Lou is the stage name of Louise Hoffner, a German pop singer.
She participated in the 2001 Eurovision national finals, coming in third place with HAPPY BIRTHDAY PARTY. Shortly before Christmas 2002, composer Ralph Siegel asked her if she would be interested in competing in the national finals again with “Let’s Get Happy”, a song he had written with lyricist Bernd Meinunger. Lou won the German 2003 finals and represented Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 in Riga where she came in 11th place.
Hopefully she will sing these two songs in Frankfurt.
