In 2001 HELENE PAPARIZOU teamed up with her brother to form ANTIQUE and represented GREECE that year with DIE FOR YOU at the Eurovision song contest. In 2005 HELENA represented GREECE as a solo singer at the Eurovision song contest with ONE NUMBER ONE and won the contest. Continue reading HELENA PAPARIZOU IS UPDATING HER FANS ABOUT A NEW SONG
Tag Archives: Antique
EUROVISION WINNERS VICKY LEANDROS & HELENA PARARIZOU IN DUET
In our new series we will look at Eurovision artists in duet with someone, be it another Eurovision artist or someone not in the Eurovision circle. Eurovision South Africa facebook picked 21 such duets. Continue reading EUROVISION WINNERS VICKY LEANDROS & HELENA PARARIZOU IN DUET
BEZ CIEBIE – JACEK SILSKI
Krzysztof Miskowicz came across this Eurovision cover in Polish. Continue reading BEZ CIEBIE – JACEK SILSKI
R S G SERIES ON THE SONGS FROM THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST – episode 5
The fifth episode of the R S G (radio sonder grense) series was broadcast after 6 pm on Sunday 30 July. Elsje van Jaarsveld presented it while Ilse Schurmann wrote the text and produced the show. Continue reading R S G SERIES ON THE SONGS FROM THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST – episode 5
EUROVISION MEMORIES – COPENHAGEN 2001
Roy van der Merwe of Eurovision South Africa and the ESC Covers website attended several Eurovision song contests in person at the host cities. He is writing down his memories of those Eurovisions he attended with accreditation. Continue reading EUROVISION MEMORIES – COPENHAGEN 2001
DIE FOR YOU – GIORGIS HRISTODOULOU
Andreas in Vienna alerted ESC Covers to a Tribute CD that was released some years ago in Greece. As ESC Covers are a cover website, we are quite interested in this and will feature several of these covers in the days to come. Continue reading DIE FOR YOU – GIORGIS HRISTODOULOU
Helena Paparizou & Antique get back together with ‘Ti, Ti’
Helena Paparizou & Antique have reformed with a new single called Ti, Ti (What, What). It has that Greek ethnic pop sound. Perfect for the summer beaches.
Continue reading Helena Paparizou & Antique get back together with ‘Ti, Ti’
MILLENNIUM WINNER FOR GREECE
Norbert started with a marathon voting for the best songs of the new millennium.
The 20th voting was for the entries from GREECE.
TOP 100 – position 29 – I WOULD DIE FOR YOU – ANTIQUE
Continue reading TOP 100 – position 29 – I WOULD DIE FOR YOU – ANTIQUE
EUROVISION 2001 – COPENHAGEN – DENMARK
Another Nordic country and so I was delighted. Due to the accommodation problems I had in Stockholm, from this time onwards, I started to share a hotel with my friend Morten from Norway and I have to specially thank him for being such a wonderful friend over the years – we have been at Eurovision together since 1995. Our hotel was close to Tivoli, one of my favourite attractions in Europe and we even had a party there one evening and all rides were free to people with accreditation. Where Birmingham was my worst Eurovision, Copenhagen did not rank high with Morten. Firstly he loves attending Eurovision in new countries and Denmark is a neighbour and a place he had been several times. He also did not get the same press accreditation as me. The venue was the biggest and quite far from our hotel. Morten actually walked most mornings to the venue but I took the delegation bus which started quite close to our hotel.
I had a slight delay with my accreditation as the Danish woman who had to sign the form was quite busy and so I had to wait until she could come to the accreditation office, signed the form and had my accreditation badge printed. I missed the first 3 press conferences as I was unable to enter the press center without my accreditation.
Concerning the promo singles, most countries continued to bring special singles but I was extremely disappointed with Denmark having a single without a cover.
Spain brought David Civera and he sang a song called “Dile que la quiero” written by Alejandro Abad. At the press conference Dabid told us he is a passionate fan of singers like Elton John and Madonna. Besides the promo single, I also got a full CD of David from the delegation. I, however, have to confess that I have never listened to any of the other tracks (this is anyway not unusual as I normally listen just to one song from a full CD).
By now I have been involved in several covers of Eurovision songs in South Africa. Due to the fact that more and more fans now were coming to Eurovision with accreditation and due to the cost, delegations brought less copies, I thought it was time to produce a special CD from South Africa to swap for promo singles that were difficult to get. One of the record companies produced a special CD that looked like the same of Africa (in the colours of the South African flag) and many people wanted this. I, however, had just 10 copies as it was quite expensive to produce and so swapped it for promo CD’s that were hard to get.
I was very disappointed with the winner, the song from Estonia was in the bottom 5 of my rankings, but I was extremely happy to finally be going to my first Baltic country. It was, however, interesting to me that one of the members of the Estonian entry was born in an exotic country, Aruba.
Coming back from Eurovision, I moved house and in the move I lost my 2001 accreditation badge (I have all the others but this one is missing and although I have search many years for it without success).
My favourites from 2001 are
Sweden – Listen to your heartbeat – Friends
France – Je n’ais que mon ame – Natasha St-Pier
Turkey – Sevgiliye son – Sedat Yuce
Malta – Another summer night – Fabrizio Faniello
Greece – Die for you – Antique
And those I did not like are
Lithuania – You got style – Skamp
Estonia – Everybody – Tanel Padar & Dave Benton
Portugal – So sei ser feliz assim – M T M
To read previous years go to esccovers
http://www.escovers.com/tag/lookingback/