Tag Archives: Czech Republic

Tereza Kerndlová releases new single ‘Přibliž Mě Blíž’

Tereza Kerndlová (C) 2017 Warner Music s.r.o.
Tereza Kerndlová (C) 2017 Warner Music s.r.o.

Tereza Kerndlová returns with a brand new single entitled Přibliž Mě Blíž (Approach me closer). It is an upbeat and happy song with a charming summer video to accompany the track. The video is shot in Portugal.

Přibliž Mě Blíž is composed by Chris Neal and René Mayer.

Tereza represented Czech Republic at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest with her song Have Some Fun.

You can see the official video for Přibliž Mě Blíž below.

Source: YouTube/TerezaKerndlovaOfficial; ESC Covers

SPOTLIGHT ON SA ARTISTS – JOLANDA BECKER

After studying singing and music locally and internationally by means of international scholarships, Jolanda Becker opened the Jolanda Becker Vocal Lab in 2007 based in Centurion, South Africa. The main focus being on achieving vocal excellence and developing the individual musician as  a whole package ready to take on the professional music industry. ​

Jolanda Becker has taught at various colleges including TUT – Musical Theatre Dept, TUT – Drama Dept, Stagedoor Showbusiness Academy, The South African Music Institute, whilst performing on national and international stages in various professional music productions, operas and musicals as well as corporate functions on the biggest stages throughout South Africa.

She has had many great success stories with numerous students getting recording deals and distribution deals at some of the biggest recording houses in S.A. as well as students performing on international and national stages in professional musical productions and television programs such as Idols and The Voice SA. She is also the vocal coach of Jasmyn who was the Eurovision Face and Voice Winner in 2011. Many students have also received international music scholarships from the best music departments in the world such as Berklee College of Music and New York Film Academy – Musical Theatre Dept. Many international singing competitions has also been won.

Music is an integral part of her life whether it is performing or working with artists in studio recording their albums and preparations for events and musicals.

She will be covering her first Eurovision song, and it will be the 2016 Czech Republic song ‘I stand’ . In Afrikaans the title is EK BLY STAAN.

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KAREL GOTT – THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Not sure how many people remember Karel Gott. He is the most “decorated ” artist from the old Czechoslovakia and took part in 1968 for Austria in the Eurovision song contest.
Now we have been informed  there is an exhibition on a boat ( 1500 square meters) with about 1000 different souvenirs of him!
They are expecting about 100 000 visitors to come to this exhibition before it ends in September.
Hopefully someone reading this will visit it and send us some pictures.
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MONTENEGRO WINS BARBARA DEX AWARD 2017

We got this press release

Slavko Kalezić from Montenegro is this year’s winner of the Barbara Dex Award. The singer got the most votes. The prize is awarded each year to the worst dressed artist at the Eurovision Song Contest. Triana Park from Latvia and Martina Bárta from Czech Republic came in second and third place. The Belgian website songfestival.be hands out the award this year and received thousands of votes.

Slavko didn’t win the 62th Eurovision Song Contest with his  song Space, but he still gets to take home a prize. The singer gets an award for his rather remarkable outfit, one we will probably not be seeing on the red carpet anytime soon … The men’s high-knot pony tail helped to get a lot of votes.

Latvia and Czech Republic came in second and third place. According to the voters, these artists were dressed the worst on stage during the Eurovision Song Contest 2017.

The top 3:

  1. Montenegro – Slavko Kalezić
  2. Latvia – Triana Park
  3. Czech Republic – Martina Bárta

Votes from all over Europe

The Barbara Dex Award is a very popular prize among the Eurovision fans. The Belgian website Songfestival.be, who hands out the award since this year, received thousands of votes from all over Europe, and Australia.

The Barbara Dex Award is named after the Belgian Eurovision contestant in 1993. She wore a dress she designed herself, a creation that caught the eye of a lot of critics. Sadly not because it was so beautiful …