SWEDEN has won the 2023 Eurovision song contest and will host in 2024. That co-inside with the 50th anniversary of them winning in 1974 with ABBA. Continue reading CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF SWEDEN WINNING EUROVISION WITH WATERLOO BY ABBA – song 12 – Million miles
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BEST AFRIKAANS COVER OF A LATVIAN EUROVISION SONG – CANDIDATE 3
Eurovision South Africa has started with the candidates in the AFRI FRIEND AWARDS, it is the fifth country – LATVIA, the second category – AFRIKAANS COVERS – and the third candidate HI HI HO by South African male singer WILLEM BOTHA. Continue reading BEST AFRIKAANS COVER OF A LATVIAN EUROVISION SONG – CANDIDATE 3
HI HI HO – WILLEM BOTHA
For the entire month of February, ESC Covers will take every day a South African artist/group/duo on a virtual tour to Europe. We will visit 28 countries.
COMPILATION CD – SWEDISH COMPOSERS
I received a request from someone to do a compilation CD featuring covers in South Africa of Eurovision songs composed by Swedish composers for other countries than Sweden.
Here is the index
01 – NORWAY 2004
Die lewe is wat jy daarvan maak – Dominec
02 – LITHUANIA 2005
Later en later – Jennifer Zamudio
03 – BELGIUM 2006
Je t’adore – Shine 4
04 – SPAIN 2007
Wees deel van my lewe – Andre Martinez
05 – LATVIA 2007
Hierdie nag – Qualitrio
06 – NORWAY 2007
Dans met my – Leandie Lombaard
07 – LATVIA 2008
Hi hi ho – Willem Botha
08 – IRELAND 2009
Verby met jou – Bianca Pienaar
09 – GREECE 2009
Asemloos – Chrismarche
10 – AZERBAIJAN 2010
Drup oor my hart – Jaycee Crause
11 – DENMARK 2010
In tye soos die – Burger le Roux & Charne Grabie
12 – IRELAND 2010
Dit is vir jou – Jasmyn
13 – NORWAY 2010
Vier seisoene – Steven Sterling
14 – AZERBAIJAN 2012
Wanneer die musiek verdwyn – Cole van Dais
15 – UNITED KINGDOM 2012
Ware liefde maak jou vry – Steve D
16 – NORWAY 2012
Bly – Ruan de Waal
17 – CYPRUS 2012
Kan nie wag nie (la la la) – Chrizaan
18 – AZERBAIJAN 2011
My hart het klaar besluit – David Fourie & Monique Steyn
EUROVISION 60th CELEBRATION – SONG 52 of 60
We are now over to my most loved song from the last 10 years, LATVIA’s 2008 song WOLVES OF THE SEA from PIRATES OF THE SEA. WILLEM BOTHA did the Afrikaans cover.
EUROVISION 60th CELEBRATION – SONG 3 of 60
The third song on this anniversary compilation comes from BELARUS and is their 2013 song SOLAYOH performed by Alyona Lankskaya with a backing singer from South Africa, WILLEM BOTHA. Willem had first chance to cover it but turned it down and DUO AFRICA grabbed the opportunity and the song is in Afrikaans and Aruba, a language of Nigeria.
