Ireland – Ireland, who hold the record for the most number of Eurovision wins, will see their former winners go on a nationwide tour together. The tour will feature Johnny Logan (1980 and 1987), Dana (1970), Linda Martin (1992) – pictured left, Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan (1994) and Niamh Kavanagh (1993). There will be [...]
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Ireland: Former Irish Winners Announce Eurovision Tour
Posted: May 9, 2012 by hulluna in Former participants1
Ireland: Linda Martin Looks at Eurovisions Past and Future
Posted: April 8, 2012 by hulluna in Eurovision Song Contest 2012, Eurovision Through the Years, Former participants, IrelandIreland – Eurovision often welcomes back former entrants. This year sees Linda Martin involved again as a mentor of the Irish entry. Linda narrowly lost in 1984 but went on to win in 1992. She has just been interviewed talking about some of her memories from former Song Contests, and she looks ahead to Baku [...]
Eurovision History Chat: Yugoslavia
Posted: January 20, 2012 by hikarufreeman in ESC History, Eurovision Through the Years, Former participantsESC History Chat – 20 years ago, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia began its breakup culminating in the eventual independence of all its former member republics, most of which have joined Eurovision as independent countries. Within Eurovision, Yugoslavia, as a Communist country that looked West while many of its neighbours looked East, provided [...]
And What Is…Doing?: Sandie Shaw Rings in the New Year
Posted: January 2, 2012 by jpl5386 in Former participants, United KingdomUnited Kingdom – Sixties pop icon Sandie Shaw was one of the headline acts on Jools Holland’s Annual Hootenanny; which aired on UK BBC2 on the night of New Year’s Eve. Appearing alongside acts such as Cyndi Lauper, Caro Emerald, Jessie J, James Morrisson and Imelda May, 64-year old Shaw delighted the audience with energetic [...]
Music tip: Max Mutzke – Let it happen
Posted: July 9, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Former participantsGermany – Max Mutzke, the German participant in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 in Istanbul (achieving a 8th place) with “Can’t wait until tonight” has presented his latest single at a German radio station. The song is calles “Let it happen” and is the first single from his new album “Homework soul”. Thee single will [...]
Alexander Rybak wants to write a song for Lena
Posted: June 7, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Former participants, Germany, NorwayThe Sunday edition of the “Berliner Zeitung” reports that Alexander Rybak wants to write a song for Lena. “Of course we are in contact. I have to see her again soon. “I have a dream with Lena and that is to write a song for her and to record it with a producer in Sweden” [...]
Ralph Siegel: I’m still the only German who has won the contest!
Posted: June 2, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Eurovision Song Contest 2010, Former participants, GermanyRalph Siegel, who won the contest for Germany in 1982 as a composer, has gone on record with a Berlin newspaper, claiming he is still the only German having won the Eurovision Song Contest as it is a prize for composers and not for singers. “Satellite” the German winning entry this year was composed by [...]
Céline Dion, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1988 in Dublin is prgenant with twins, according to her manager and husband Réné Angelil. She had been trying for a very long time to get pregnant again through in-vitro fertilization. Earlier this year it was announced that in one of the tries to get pregnant, Céline [...]
