Eurovision Times Awards 2013 – Every year, the summer is a long season for the Eurovision community but this year we got to vote and give awards! After a week in this category, it’s time to announce the winner and hand out the Frida. However, the full results will only be announced once all polls are closed. So who will win?
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Artistic Awards
Best Backings
The five entries nominated were:
- Finland‘s Katrin Vaskelainen, Kiira Kilpiö, Haza Hajipoori, Reetta Korhonen & Emelie Granvik
- France‘s Fanny Llado, Guillaume Eyango & Judith Flessel-Toto
- Hungary‘s Dániel Kővágó & Helga Wéber
- Netherlands‘ Shirma Rouse, Ricardo Burgrust & Yerry Rellum
- Ukraine‘s Igor Vovkovinsky, Ann Bailey-Simons, Hollie Petrie, Cleveland Watkiss & Dasha Mineev
And the Frida goes to…
THE NETHERLANDS
“Birds” was performed by Anouk Teeuwe. Representing the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013, it was written by Anouk Teeuwe and composed by Anouk Teeuwe and Martin Gjerstad. It finished 9th with 114 points. Nominated 6 times overall in ET Awards 2013, “Best Backings” is already its third! Congratulations!
You can click here to look at the full recommendations and nominations from last week’s article! There were 37 recommendations for 14 countries in the first round and 154 votes were cashed in an open poll, in exactly one week, among the 5 nominees. The complete detailed results will be announced once all polls are closed this weekend!
Now let’s hear the winning entry once more, for Shirma Rouse, Ricardo Burgrust & Yerry Rellum:
The Eurovision Times 
I know that I am getting on everyone’s nerves but I really think that Israel should have got this Frida.
Congratulations to the Dutch backing singers nevertheless. They were fantastic too. :)
even if on my personal taste I think I’d like Israel more than Ukraine or Finland, in the end, imo one of the only two (with Hungary) amazing backings of the year won ;)
very deserved!
When people hear the song for the first time, in the Live singing video from Anouk, many people where asking themselfs how they will solve the singing choire part in the song, because it is a nice piece in the song and well… a choire on tape is not alowed on eurovision.
These three backing did a really great jop by replacing the choice on tape, on a very subtile way!
Birds could easily fall when the backing would do wrong on stage, they where needed to complete Birds and they where awsome live, all the time and all the rehearsals to!
I agree. Congratulations, the Netherlands! :)
Well deserved ! Backings and orchestration are definitely the 2 biggest assets of “Birds” !
It’s an okay winner, but Helga deserved this award more than anybody.
I voted for Hungary, as I found the contrast between the lead and backing vocals interesting, but I can see why they didn’t win.
Congratulations Anouk, for another well-earned victory :D
Congratulations to Shirma, Ricardo, Yerry and the Netherlands.