Romania‘s national final was held on 10 March, and the Latino dance pop band Mandinga came out the winner, in a combined voting of ‘expert’ jury and televoting. Their entry Zaleilah, written by Costi Ionita, with lyrics by Elena Ionescu, Dihigo Omar Secada & Costi Ionita, is sung in Spanish …

The Social Network Song (Oh Oh – Uh – Oh Oh) is the title of San Marino’s entry to the 57th Eurovision Song Contest and it will be sung by 37-year-old Sanmarinese Valentina Monetta, internally selected by the country’s broadcasting company SMRTV. The entry was composed by the legendary German …

France this year continued the procedure from recent years to select internally their representative at the Eurovision Song Contest. Broadcaster France 3 chose Indonesian-born singer Anggun to fly the Tricolore in Baku. The title of her song is Echo (You And I), written by the prominent French songwriting duo of …

Georgia debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2007. In this year’s national final, selected by a mixture of televoting and ‘expert’ jury, Anri Jokhadze took the victory with the song I’m A Joker. For the first time ever, Georgia’s Eurovision entry will be performed partly in Georgian language. I’m …

It’s certainly one of the most memorable first lines from all 42 ESC entries 2012: “I was born in distant nineteen-eighty, the year that Irish Johnny Logan won…”; written by Rolands Udris, and combined with the music by Ivars Makstnieks they are the opening lines to Beautiful Song, Latvia’s entry …

When FYR Macedonia’s broadcasting company MKRTV announced Kaliopi to represent the country in the 57th Eurovision Song Contest, she was already a familiar name for many Eurovision fans. She was supposed to be FYR Macedonia’s ESC debut entrant in 1996, but her song Samo Ti (Only You) got eliminated in …