During the lock down in Europe over the Eurovision period in May, many Eurovision singers did home videos of other Eurovision artists songs. In the wake of ESC COVERS COVER2COVER singing competition, we will feature some of these so South African artists in particular can get an idea how it is done. Nor Bert of EuroVisionMusic picked the ones as he followed the whole series.
The nineth video is HELENA PAPARIZOU from GREECE (who won the 2005 Eurovision song contest for her country with MY NUMBER ONE, teamed up with SERGEY LAZAREV of RUSSIA, covering his Eurovision entry from 2016 – YOU’RE THE ONLY ONE.
SERGEY LAZAREV, who represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2016 and again in 2019, has a new song and video out called LOVI. The video was shot in Miami, Florida.
We have now reached the top 10 of our ultinamate top 50 millennium Eurovision songs and it is Russia 2016 in position 10 – YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE by Sergey Lazarev.
John Ballard {copyright: facebook.com/john.ballard}
Seeing the name JOHN BALLARD as one of the composers of the song for DO RE DOS in Moldova 2018, the name looked very familiar and asked around and Andreas in Germany reported he was also involved in 4 other Euro entries recently – namely
2013 – AZERBAIJAN – HOLD ME
2014 – RUSSIA – SHINE
2016 – RUSSIA – YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE
2017 – GREECE – THIS IS LOVE
ESC Covers really hopes the song he is involved with in Moldova will be their entry.
Rian Swanepoel from South Africa covered the 2016 Eurovision entry from Russia YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE in English. It would have been nice if he did it in Afrikaans.
Sergey Lazarev, the Russian 2016 Eurovision singer with YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE is to give a show in Minsk, Belarus. Ian Fowell, our chief editor is currently in Minsk and saw this lovely poster.
Last year the lyric phrase THUNDER AND LIGHTNING, IT’S GETTING EXCITING from the Russian entry was on everybody’s lips. What phrase from the lyrics of the 2017 entries do you think is the most memorable? Once again there is no right or wrong answers and 2 judges (both composers) will judge which phrase they think is the most memorable.
Now what you have to do is as follows:
Write down your phrase and send it to roy@esccovers.com and he will pass it on to the judges.
You have 2 weeks for this and then the competition will close – 16 March 2017 to 30 March 2017.
I was interviewed by a Russian journalist from the TASS news agency,
Have not read it as yet as it in Russian, so has to get someone to translate, I did not want my photo to be taken as it is about Sergey and the award OGAE Rest of the world gave him for best song of 2016 by a male artist
