Belgium’s entry to the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest, Love Kills, performed by Roberto Bellarosa, underwent a major revamp a couple of weeks ago and sounds quite different now from the version he originally presented in the national final mid December. The song, written by by Jukka Immonen and Iain Farquharson, …

Slovenian broadcaster RTVSLO opted for an internal selection this year and chose the American born singer Hannah Mancini to represent the country at Malmö. Hannah has some Eurovision experience on a national level: In the 2011 national selection she took part together with Sylvain and Mike Vale performing Ti Si …

For Ukraine it’s the 11th participation this year, and the country can already look back on quite a successful history in the Contest, with Ruslana’s win in 2004 (Wild Dances), two second places (Ani Lorak, Verka Serduchka) and three more top ten placings (Tina Karol, Alyosha and Mika Newton). Now …

Our showcase of the 39 entries to the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest starts off with Estonia this year. As usual, the order of presentation was determined by a random draw (except for the host country Sweden). When 24-year-old singer Birgit Õigemeel won the Estonian national final ‘Eesti Laul’ on 2nd …

This coming weekend, Saturday 13 April, the biggest Eurovision preview event ‘Eurovision in Concert’ will take place for the fifth time in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It’s a unique opportunity to see most of the participants of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest perform their entries live on stage. Presently, 26 acts have …

Last week, on occasion of the German national final for Eurovision Malmö 2013, we had the opportunity to meet up with the 2012 Contest winner Loreen from Sweden to hand over the ESC Radio Award trophies. In the listeners’ poll, held last June after the Contest in Baku, Sweden’s Eurovision …