ESC Covers started to look at EUROVISION songs that have been covered in South Africa. Continue reading EUROVISION SONGS COVERED IN SOUTH AFRICA – LUXEMBOURG 1967
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DANS MET MY – MALIE KELLY
Finding covers of Eurovision entries is the biggest passion for ESC Covers. Yesterday a music fan from Germany asked about an Afrikaans cover of a 1967 entry. Imagine our surprise when we have never heard of it.
A TAK DAL – VERA SPINAROVA
VICKY LEANDROS won the 1972 Eurovision song contest for Luxembourg with Apres toi. It became a big hit and was covered by many singers.
EFTER DEG – LILLIAN ASKELAND
ESC Covers has come across another language cover of the 1972 Eurovision winner from Luxembourg, APRES TOI by Vicky Leandros.
HET IS TE LAAT – JACQUES HERB
APRES TOI by Vicky Leandros won the Eurovision song contest in 1972 for Luxembourg.
WINNER 1972 – APRES TOI – VICKY LEANDROS
We all know that taste in music can differ, also during the Eurovision Song Contest… Some countries give the highest points to the winner while other countries ignore the winning song.
SOUTH AFRICAN INDEPENDENT ARTIST MUSIC AWARDS (Rudi Claase)
On 28 APRIL 2021 the first South-African Independent Artist Music Awards will take place. It will take place at Platteland in Centurion.
ESC Covers will report on some of the nominations (those that have covered a Eurovision song in their careers) and also publish one of their Eurovision covers.
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TOP 100 – position 4 – APRES TOI – VICKY LEANDROS
Here is the EUROVISION TOP 100 made in response to the top 10’s sent by 103 members of Eurovision Cafe, MUSIC, eurovision and beyond, Compare and INFE Australia and some Eurovision stars!
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ZONDER JOU – GARRY HAGGER
ESC Covers discovered recently that Garry released a CD called 12 points. On this CD is Flemish/Dutch covers of 12 Eurovision songs (9 winners and 3 other popular songs).
JY’S DIE EEN – PATRICIA LEWIS
On Saturday 25 July 2020 ESC COVERS will launch the COVER2COVER competition. In category one are 14 songs by South African artists that are covers of EUROVISION songs (actual entries or selection songs or Eurovision related because of the original artist who was an entry at Eurovision or by the composers who had written a Eurovision entry). We will list all 14 in the next days, the Afrikaans cover plus the original song.
The tenth song is JYS DIE EEN by PATRICIA LEWIS plus the original song APRES TOI (French) and COME WHAT MAY (English) of VICKY LEANDROS.
This is a Eurovision entry. VICKY LEANDROS won the Eurovision song contest in 1972 for LUXEMBOURG although the is a Greek singer. It became a huge hit, both in the original French and the English.