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Ben Cristovao & Sara James are having a ‘Brighter Day’

Ben Cristovao & Sara James have got together to record the new track Brighter Day. A summery calypso type feel to this song.

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EUROVISION 2021 – THE CZECH REPUBLIC REHEARSAL

Monday 10 May and the rehearsals started for the first bunch of songs from semi final two. ESC Covers have on line accreditation and a team of reporters will follow it in shifts and report for us. Here is the third report from the first rehearsals of semi final two – that of the Czech republic.

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EUROVISION 2021 – PROMO SINGLE (THE CZECH REPUBLIC)

ESC COVERS original plan was to publish over 13 days until 10 May 2021, the 39 CD singles of the 2021 Eurovision song contest. This plan was too ambitious with so many things happening in the run-up to Eurovision 2021, so we will take a few more days to do it.

The designs were done by Stephan Herholdt and is a one of a kind.

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2021 Eurovision in review

2021 Eurovision in review – 39 countries and songs.

Comments, reviews and video’s for all 39 songs competing at Eurovision 2021 in Rotterdam.

BENNY CRISTO – THE CZECH REPUBLIC

ESC Covers has been alerted by various people among them Herluis Rafael and Andy Mikheev that this year there are quite a lot of artists competing in the 2020 Eurovision song contest who are not white and some have AFRICAN roots. With ESC Covers being the only Eurovision website in AFRICA, it seems a good idea to look at some of them.

Starting today for the next week or so, we will look individually at them.

Ben da Silva Cristóvão was born 8 June 1987. He is professionally known as Benny Cristo. He is a Czech singer and sportsman with a Czech mother and an Angolan father. He was a finalist in the talent show Superstar in 2009. In 2010, he released his debut album Definitely Different. He is also a sportsman and has competed in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. On 10 September 2016, he won a bronze medal in a white belt competition. On the 20 November 2016, he was a gold medalist at the Madrid Open-tournament. He will represent Czech Republic in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam with the song “Kemama”.

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Benny Cristo to represent Czech Republic at the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest with ‘Kemama’

Benny Cristo from the video of 'Kemama'
Benny Cristo from the video of ‘Kemama’

Benny Cristo will represent Czech Republic with the song Kemama. He won the online national selection with a combination of expert jury and online voting.

You can see a video of Kemama by Benny Cristo below.

Source: ESC Covers; eurovoix