Category Archives: Afrimusic song contest

AFR MUSIC SONG CONTEST – LINDA KILIAN

Next up in our series of South African artists who registered for the first Afri music song contest and have done Eurovision covers is LINDA KILIAN. Linda covered the 2014 Eurovision entry from Sweden – UNDO of Sanna Nielsen as Hoor jy my. he also covered several other Sanna songs, mostly Swedish selection songs. Other euro covers were done in duets with different partners and all in English. 2016 Denmark – Soldiers of love with Lufuno, Lithuania 2015 – I feel love with Rian Swanepoel and Sweden 2003 – Give me your love with Ruhan du Toit. Not sure what Linda will enter into Afri music song contest – but hopefully some more Euro covers, both solo and with duet partners.

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AFRI MUSIC SONG CONTEST – 39 COUNTRIES registered

We just got the latest update and a staggering 39 of the 54 countries have registered for the first Afri music song contest. Can we even surpass the 42 that Eurovision gave us in 2017?

Here are the list of 39 countries who have now registered and there are still almost a month to register. Register closes on 3 October.
01 – Algeria
02 – Angola
03 – Benin
04 – Botswana
05 – Burundi
06 – Cameroon
07 – Central African Republic
08 – Chad
09 – Cote d’ Ivoire
10 – Democratic Republic of Congo
11 – Egypt
12 – Ethopia
13 – Gabon
14 – Ghana
15 – Guinea-Bissau
16 – Kenya
17 – Lesotho
18 – Liberia
19 – Libya
20 – Madagaskar
21 – Malawi
22 – Morocco
23 – Mozambique
24 – Nigeria
25 – Namibia
26 – Republic of Congo
27 – Rwanda
28 – Senegal
29 – Sierra Leone
30 – Somalia
31 – South Africa
32 – South Sudan
33 – Sudan
34 – Tanzania
35 – Togo
36 – Tunisia
37 – Uganda
38 – Zambia
39 – Zimbabwe

AFRIC MUSIC SONG CONTEST – SUZANNE RENTZKE

Next up in our series to introduce you to some of the Afrikaans artists who have registered to take part in the first Afri music song contest is SUZANNE RENTZKE. There is a full CD available by her on Itunes are it is called VIR JOU (for you) and you can write to Suzanne at info@suzannerentzke.co.za for more information. Suzanne has covered one Eurovision song in the past – ISRAEL 2002 – Light a candle by Sarit Hadad. Suzanne calls her Afrikaans cover LAAT JOU LIG SKYN (let you light shine).

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AFRI MUSIC SONG CONTEST – ANDRE VAN WYNGAARDT

It is time to focus the attention to our third Afrikaans artist who had registered to take part in the first Afri music song contest. It is ANDRE VAN WYNGAARDT. Andre has recorded two CD’s, his first is SKADU’S VAN MY HART which features one Eurovision cover – Sweden 2006 – EWIGHEID. His second CD was launched a month or two ago and is called DIE ENGELE HAAL ASEM and again it features one Eurovision cover – Estonia 2017 – AS IN DIE VLAMME. Andre will surely enter the full compliment of 3 songs allowed and no doubt they will come from his new CD, our guess is two original songs and the Estonian cover.

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AFRI MUSIC SONG CONTEST – MARLE FOURIE

The second Afrikaans artist we look at who have entered Afri music song contest is MARLE FOURIE. She has covered already several Eurovision songs in various combinations.

Under the name of CHRISMARCHE she covered

GREECE 2009 as Asemloos

CYPRUS 2012 as My fantasie

Then in duet with GERT KITAAR se covered the 2015 song of the Czech republic as Hart se snaar

Currently she is part of a duo called SONSKYN and they have done in Afrikaans

Czech republic 2015 – Hart se snaar

Hungary 2015 – Oorloe verniet

Norway 2015 – Ek moet jou nou laat gaan

Sonskyn also covered two Euro songs in English

Estonia 2015 – Goodbye to yesterday

Poland 2015 – Between you and me (new English lyrics)

Marle is currently working on Austrlia 2016 Sound of silence and this will surely be one of the songs she will enter into Afri music song contest

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AFRI MUSIC SONG CONTEST – COLE VAN DAIS

We have decided to give some promotion to the Afrikaans artists who have registered to take part in the first Afric music song contest. We will try and highlight each and every artist who have already registered. We will do it at random and first up is COLE VAN DAIS. Besides registering as a solo artist, she is registered in duets with several artists as well as part of a trio. Cole has covered many Eurovision songs already.

As solo artist she has done
Azerbaijan 2012 as Wanneer die musiek verdwyn
Cyprus 1987 as Die eiland
Denmark 2007 as Glans prinses
Denmark 2013 as Waar in die wereld is jy (which features a part in Danish)
France 1987 as Leef in my hart
Georgia 2008 as Vrede sal kom
Iceland 1987 as Dink aan my
Romania 2009 as Suid-Afrikaanse meisies
San Marino 2013 as Drome van my hart

As one member of a duo
with Katrina (of the waves) Love shine a light – UK 1997
with Joran Steinhauer (of Aarzemnieki) Dinge dong (part in Latvian) – 1975
with Organ Prawang (of Thailand) Dear friend – Croatia 1995 (partly in Thai)
with Marc Rantseli Peace will come – Georgia 2008 (a duet in 4 languages – Afrikaans, English, Zulu and Spanish)
with Emmanuel Castis Ek’s so lief vir jou – UK 2016
with Sergey Sysuev (of Ukraine) Spirit of the night – San Marino 2017 (part in Russian)
with Righardt Greyling Kom saam met my – Latvia 2004
as DUO AFRICA (with a singer from Nigeria) – Moleyho – Belarus 2013 (part in a local language of Nigeria)
as CHESS GIRLS – Op die dansvloer – Germany 2013 (Afrikaans, German and Tsonga)

Lastly as part of AFRICA SENSATION TRIO – City lights – Belgium 2017 (part of the song in Xhosa)
We wish Cole a lot of luck in Afri music song contest and cannot wait to hear all the entries.

AFRI MUSIC SONG CONTEST – 33 COUNTRIES REGISTERED

As you can see from the picture accompanying this post, Afri music song contest reached the 33 club – yes a staggering 33 African countries have so far registered to take part in the first Afri music song contest, 61% if the 54 African countries – this has overtaken our wildest dreams. About 25 days of registering has gone with 35 days still to go – could be overtake the 42 record of EUROVISION?

For interest sake, here are the 33 countries
01 – Algeria
02 – Angola
03 – Benin
04 – Botswana
05 – Cameroon
06 – Central African republic
07 – Chad
08 – Cote d’voir
09 – Democratic republic of the Congo
10 – Egypt
11 – Ethiopia
12 – Gabon
13 – Ghana
14 – Guinea Bissau
15 – Kenya
16 – Lesotho
17 – Liberia
18 – Libya
19 – Malawi
20 – Morocco
21 – Mozambique
22 – Nigeria
23 – Republic of Congo
24 – Senegal
25 – Sierre Leone
26 – Somalia
27 – South Africa
28 – South Sudan
29 – Sudan
30 – Tanzania
31 – Togo
32 – Uganda
33 – Zimbabwe

UPDATE – a 34th country is now in RWANDA.

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