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Benjamin Ingrosso

ESC Covers meets Benjamin Ingrosso in Lisbon

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Benjamin Ingrosso
Benjamin Ingrosso

ESC Covers managed to catch up with Benjamin Ingrosso, who will represent Sweden at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest, with Dance You Off.

Roy van der Merwe spoke with him as they walked back to the hotel (ESC Covers are in the same hotel as the Swedish delegation).

In the photo you will see Benjamin with his unique suitcase with his name and song title and Swedish flag and a caricature of him dancing.

Benjamin is looking forward to getting on to the stage and performing for real in the semi-final. His is happy with his rehearsals so far.

Check out a little clip of Benjamin’s rehearsal below.

Source: ESC Covers; video@EurovisionSongContest/YouTube

Benjamin Ingrosso/Dance You Off

Benjamin Ingrosso will sing ‘Dance You Off’ for Sweden at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest

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Benjamin Ingrosso {copyright: SVT}

Benjamin Ingrosso has won the Melodifestivalen and will therefore represent Sweden at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest with his song Dance You Off.

12 acts took to the stage in the Friends Arena –

  • Méndez – Everyday
  • Renaida – All The Feels
  • Martin Almgren – A Bitter Lullaby
  • John Lundvik – My Turn
  • Jessica Andersson – Party Voice
  • LIAMOO – Last Breath
  • Samir & Viktor – Shuffla
  • Mariette – For You
  • Felix Sandman – Every Single Day
  • Margaret – In My Cabana
  • Benjamin Ingrosso – Dance You Off
  • Rolandz – Fuldans

Voting was a combination of international jury and public voting.

You can see Benjamin perform his winning song below.

Source: ESC Covers

Sweden

SWEDEN – EUROVISION 2017 FINAL

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The Swedish selection for Eurovision 2017 in Kyiv takes place tonight.

The show will be held at the Friends Arena in Stockholm and will be hosted by Hasse Andersson, David Lindgren and Clara Henry.

After 4 semi finals and a second chance round, the 28 acts have been narrowed to 12 and they will fight it out to represent Sweden in May.

The Swedish Eurovision entry  will be determined via 50/50 public televoting-international jury deliberation.

The Participants for tonight are

  1. Ace Wilder – Wild child
  2. Boris René – Her kiss
  3. Lisa Ajax – I don’t give a
  4. Robin Bengtsson – I can’t go on
  5. Jon Henrik Fjällgren feat. Aninia – En värld full av strider
  6. Anton Hagman – Kiss you goodbye
  7. Mariette – A million years
  8. Felix, Oscar & Omar/FO&O – Gotta thing about you
  9. Nano – Hold on
  10. Wiktoria – As I lay me down
  11. Benjamin Ingrosso – Good lovin’
  12. Owe Thörnqvist – Boogieman blues

It is difficult for ESCCovers to single out who we will promote but finally we decided on FO&O with “Gotta thing about you” as one of the composers Robert “Mutt” Lange is from South Africa and ESC Covers is a South African based website.

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Hunks of Swedish 2017 selection

ESC Covers at Melodifestivalen 2017: PART I

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PART I: The Hunks of Melodifestivalen

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ESC Covers says “Välkommen tillbaka” as we return to Stockholm for the final of Melodifestivalen 2017, the Swedish selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Guest editor Dennis Flores from the United States of America will be reporting from Friends Arena in this four-part series.

In this first installment, we playfully focus on the Men of Mello.

Will the Swedish public choose their winner based on looks? As with Eurovision, the entire package of an entry is what decides the winner: the song, the staging, and the look of the artist(s). Sometimes the public is smitten by the good looks.

The Men of Mello Final 2017 are (A) Boris René, (B) Robin Bengtsson, (C) Jon Henrik Fjällgren, (D) Anton Hagman, (E) FO&O (Felix, Oscar, and Omar), (D) Nano, (E) Benjamin Ingrosso, and (F) Owe Thörnqvist.

Dennis’ picks:

3rd Place: Benjamin Ingrosso

Benjamin Ingrosso has that friendly, guy next door look. Watching him on stage, he comes off a bit goofy with his suave dancing.

2nd Place: Anton Hagman

Anton Hagman also has that guy next door look, but with his performance he has that sad, puppy-dog eyes, which surely is trying to play to the audience, after all he did beat Eurovision winner and fan favourite Loreen!

1st Place: Robin Bengtsson

Absolutely without any doubt, Robin is the clear winner here. His icy blue eyes are piercing to the camera. With multiple close-ups and directly staring deep into the viewers at home, he can hypnotize you with his whole performance.

Melodifestival

FINAL LINE UP IN SWEDEN 2017

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FO&O

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Lisa Ajax

Boris René

Anton Hagman

are the 4 artists that qualified to the final of SVT Melodifestivalen last night and will go to the final.

Loreen missed out and some had expected it, while it came as a shock to others.

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The running order in the final will be
01. Ace Wilder
02. Boris René
03. Lisa Ajax
04. Robin Bengtsson
05. Jon Henrik Fjällgren feat. Aninia
06. Anton Hagman
07. Mariette
08. FO&O
09. Nano
10. Wiktoria
11. Benjamin Ingrosso
12. Owe Thörnqvist

Melodifestival

SEMI FINAL 2 SONGS IN SWEDISH SELECTION 2017

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Fans have been able to listen for approximately one minute each to the 7 songs in the second semi final.
I was slightly more impressed with the 7 songs in this semi final after hearing them for the first time – still I cannot see an instant hit for me.
Here is my rankings
7th – ALLYAWAN

Not at all my kind of music

6th – ETZIA

Expected more of this song from seeing the title. I like her dress, especially the sleeves

5th – DISMISSED

Sort of sound like The Ark and could surprise because of how they look and because of the gender issues they are highlighting. Conchitta has competition.

4th – BENJAMIN INGROSSO

He looks better than he sings and the song does very little for me

3rd – LISA AJAX

Interesting title “I don’t give A” and people will try and hear more

2nd – ROGER PONTARE

His 2000 “When spirits are calling my name”  really grew on me and this could have the same effect

1st – MARIETTE

We had ” A million voices” in Eurovision and easily could have “A million years” this time around. Good song but I think both Thomas Gson and Peter Bostrom have composed better songs.

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Picture from Melodifestivalen website