Iceland – As the Icelandic newspaper Visir reports, Regína Ósk will compete in Söngvakeppni Sónvarpsins once again. She has already represented Iceland at the Eurovision Song Contst in 2008 as part of the duo Euroband. She was also a backing vocalist for Iceland in 2001,2003 and 2005. She will sing the song Hjartað brennur (My heart burns) which is described as an uptempo song, which was written by composers Maria Björk, Fredrik Randquist Maria and Marcus Frenell (more…)
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Iceland - The young singer Yohanna represented Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the ballad “Is It True” and brought the island its best placing ever as she came second after power house Alexander Rybak. This year Yohanna tried to return to the Eurovision stage with her song “Nótt” but was beaten by Sonni’s Friends in the Icelandic national final who sang a tribute to their friend and composer of the song, Sonni Brink, who had died before the national final. (more…)
Iceland: Changes to the National Final
Posted: November 20, 2011 by escbelgium in IcelandTags: Eurovision Song Contest, Iceland
Iceland – ESCNorge.com reports that the Icelandic broadcaster RUV has decided to change the selection method used for searching the representative for the island at the 57th Eurovision Song Contest. Previous news stated that only one final was going to be held, now RUV has added three semi-finals.
Iceland – The official preview video of the Icelandic entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 was premiered today. The new English version of the song is called “Coming Home” which is a direct translation of “Aftur heim”. The video shows Sigúrjon’s friends and family members of the late singer and songwriter dancing at a barn. The song’s lyrics were written by igurjón Brink’s widow, Thorunn Clausen. (more…)
Iceland – Þórunn Erna Klausen the widow of Sigurjón Brink and co-writer of Aftur Heim, Pálmi Sigurhjartarson has talked about her husband’s sudden death, the plans for Eurovision and the genesis of the Icelandic entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 on television yesterday. As Flosi Jon Ofeigsson reports on his blog, Klausen explained, that the song was written and composed in a single evening and that they submitted the song just 2 minutes before the deadline. Sigurjón Brink, who died shortly before the Icelandic final, wrote (more…)
Iceland – She was the big favourite to win the Icelandic national final and represent her country once again at the Eurovision Song Contest. To the consternation of many Eurovision fans she did not even come into the Top 2 and Sigurjón’s Friends will represent Iceland in Eurovision. Now Yohanna has released a snippet of the English version of her entry “Nótt” on her website. The song was originally recorded in English and translated into Icelandic to adhere to the rules of the Icelandic selection. You can listen to the song called (more…)
Iceland: “Sigurjóns Friends – Aftur heim” to Eurovision
Posted: February 13, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in Iceland
Iceland - The Icelandic national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 ended in a slight surprise. The big favourite Yohanna, who had already achieved a second place for her country in 2009, did not even make the Top 2. Magni Ásgeirsson and Sigurjóns Friends with their song Aftur heim did instead. The song “Aftur heim” was written by Sigurjón Brink, who passed away shortly before the competition started. At the request of his family, the song remained in the competition and was be performed by some of Sigurjón’s friends. The tribute band consists of Hreimur Örn Heimisson, Gunnar Ólason, Benedikt Brynleifsson, Vignir Snær Vigfússon, Matthías (more…)
Iceland - Tonight the most Nordic participant in the Eurovision Song Contest will choose their entry for Düsseldorf. It seems like “Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins 2011” has become a two-horse race. Yohanna, who represented her country in Moscow in 2009 and came second, was the big favourite all along. But now “Aftur heim” a song performed as a tribute to its composer Sigurjón Brink by his friends might score some sympathy points. All songs have to be performed in Icelandic during the national final. This is the full line-up for tonight: (more…)
UPDATE: The song has been selected as Iceland’s entry in Düsseldorf!
Iceland – Right after Norway’s third semi-final, Iceland continue its selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest in Düsseldorf. 5 acts competed in the last heat of “Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins” and three qualified for the final. The song “Aftur heim” by Sigurjón Brink, who passed away last week, was performed by some of Sigurjón’s friends. Apparently the rules were changed as from previous semi-finals only 2 songs qualified. These are the qualifying entries: (more…)
Iceland – Right after Norway’s third semi-final, Iceland will also continue its selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest in Düsseldorf. 5 acts will be competing in this heat of “Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins” but only two will qualify for the final. The song “Aftur heim” by Sigurjón Brink, who passed away last week will, at the request of his family, remain in the competition and will be performed by some of Sigurjón’s friends. Brink died aged (more…)
Iceland: Third semi-final songs with a tribute
Posted: January 24, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in Iceland Iceland – RUV, the Icelandic national broadcaster has just published the songs which will be competing in the third semi-final of “Sjónvarpsins 2011″. The song “Aftur heim” by Sigurjón Brink, who passed away last week will, at the request of his family, remain in the competition and will be performed by some of Sigurjón’s friends. Brink died aged 36, from a heartattack last Tuesday. He leaves behind a wife (more…)
Iceland – Right after Norway’s second semi-final, Iceland held its own second semi-final for the Eurovision Song Contest in Düsseldorf. 5 acts competed in this heat of “Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins” but only two qualified for the national final: 2009 runner-up of the Eurovision Song Contest Yohanna and Matthías Matthíasson & Erla Björg Káradóttir. The final result was decided by the public. Here you can watch the qualifying performances: (more…)
Iceland – Right after Norway’s second semi-final, Iceland will also continie its selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest in Düsseldorf. 5 acts will be competing in this heat of “Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins” but only two will qualify for the final. The show will start at 21:15 CET and a webcast will be made available. The final result will be decided by the public alone. These are the 5 competing entries which have to be performed in Icelandic: (more…)
Iceland: Second semi-final songs out
Posted: January 17, 2011 by Sekhmet Morgan in Eurovision Song Contest 2011, Iceland
Iceland – Week 2 for the early Scandinavian NF brings us more songs in Iceland. They have released the 5 songs to participate in the second semi-final, to be held on January 22. Only three of them will qualify to a final. All songs had to be in Icelandic. This week sees the return of 2009 winner Yohanna which scored Iceland’s best esc result ever coming second to… Norway ! (more…)
Iceland – Right after Norway’s first semi-final, Iceland held its first semi-final for the Eurovision Song Contest in Düsseldorf. 5 acts competed in this heat of “Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins” but only two qualified for the national final: Haraldur Reynisson and Erna Hrónn Ólafsdóttir. The final result was decided by the public. Here you can watch the qualifying performances: (more…)
Iceland – Right after Norway’s first semi-final, Iceland will also start its selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest in Düsseldorf. 5 acts will be competing in this heat of “Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins” but only two will qualify for the final. The show will start at 21:15 CET and a webcast will be made available. The final result will be decided by the public alone. These are the 5 competing entries which have to be performed in Icelandic:
Iceland – After Norway, it’s another Scandinavian country that releases songs to relief our eager to discover the 2011 entrants. Iceland has released only the 5 songs to participate in the first semi-finale, to be hold on January the 15th. Three of them only will qualify to a finale. All songs had to be in Icelandic, giving an overall nice tone to a rather low-leveled semi where no songs show much originality or creativity. (more…)
Iceland – The Icelandic national broadcaster RÚV has announced the five competitors of the first semi-final of their selection process. The first semi-final will be held on January 15 and all songs will be performed in Icelandic. The selection process consists of 3 semi-finals with 5 entries each and a big final. Here are the 5 first competitors:
Iceland - The line-up for the Icelandic national final is slowly being revealed and apparently two former participants will return. Yohanna enchanted Iceland with her ballad “Is it true” and her flawless voice in 2009. She won the Icelandic national final that year and brought the Nordic island its best result ever when she came second in the Eurovision final. Magni Asgeirsson participated in the national selection together with Brigitta (Iceland 2003). He is very popular in Iceland and (more…)
Eurovision recap (21)
Posted: December 22, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Estonia, FYR Macedonia, Iceland, MaltaThis time with news from FYR Macedonia, Estonia and Albania
Malta – PBS, the Maltese national broadcaster has announced the date of next year’s national final for the Eurovision Song Contest in Düsseldorf. The Mediterranean island will select their entry on February 12. PBS received 141 songs from which 24 semi-finalists were chosen. The semi-final will take place one day before the final and 16 songs will qualify.
Estonia – ERR announced that Janne Saar has been disqualified from the Estonian national final for Eurovision 2011. The song “Meeting The Wolf” breached the rules as it was released before September 1. The singer is replaced by Tiiu Kiik and the song with a quite suiting title (more…)
Iceland – Icelandic television RÚV has announced the sixteen songwriters, that have made it to the second round of the Icelandic preselection. A total of 174 composers had submitted entries. The composers can now chose wether to keep the artist they used for the demo or to choose a completely new singer. The names of the artists will be made public in early January, while the national final is set to take place on February 12. There are some known names among the lucky sixteen (4 of them work in teams of 2). See for yourself: (more…)
Páll Magnússon, director of the Icelandic television RÚV, has announced that only songs performed in Icelandic may participate in the Icelandic National Final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. Since 1999 (the year the language rule fell) Iceland has always performed in English, resulting in 2 second places in 1999 with Selma (All out of luck) and 2009 with Yohanna (Is it true?). (more…)
