Interviews 2018
Albania 2018: Interview with Eugent Bushpepa
The song “Mall” – yearning is rocky love song with a groovy rhythm and a good melody. Good to see that there are so many different music styles in...
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Armenia 2018: Interview with Sevak Khanagyan
The song “Qami” will be sung in 100% Armenian language, it’s the first time that Armenia will be represented in its native language.
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Australia 2018: Interview with Jessica Mauboy
The song “We Got Love” as an uplifting and positive song about not giving up in life.
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Austria 2018: Interview with Cesár Sampson
The Austrian entry 2018 is “Nobody But You” is not a love for a special person, but for God. “And I get no sleep, I’m in too deep, I can’t let you...
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Azerbaijan 2018: Interview with Aisel Mammadova
Aisel, who is born in Baku, 1989 came in touch with music at a very early age of life. She attended a music school in Baku and later on the...
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Backstage tour @ Eurovision in Lisbon 2018
The tour went through the arena to the dressing- and make up rooms, to the storage rooms for all the props used on stage by each individual country.
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Belarus 2018: Interview with Alekseev
The song “Forever” is another love song with the beautiful textline “Rain keeps on falling, and I know you’ll be mine forever.
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Belgium 2018: Interview with Sennek
The Belgian song “A Matter Of Time” is an English song in the music style of a Bond movie. That has worked very well four years ago, when Conchita...
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Best of blue carpet in Lisbon 2018
This year the red carpet has been a blue one. This is being made due to close location to the Atlantic Ocean and the maritime motto of this year’s...
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Bulgaria 2018: Interview with Equinox
The song “Bones” is a very modern and catchy song, despite of the dark and mystic lyrics.
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Croatia 2018: Interview with Franka Batelić
Franka Batelić was born in Rijeka in 1992. As a young girl she followed her first ESC watching Tony Cetinski’s entry “Nek Ti Bude Ljubav Sva” and...
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Cyprus 2018: Interview with Eleni Foureira
The Cypriot entry has a Spanish title “Fuego” and means fire. It’s a contemporary music piece which could be played in any club around the world....
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Czech Republic 2018: Interview with Mikolas Josef
The song “Lie To Me” is about a find the right partner after a break up. Don’t get too negative and dance and sing instead – is the message. The...
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Denmark 2018: Interview with Rasmussen
The song “Higher Ground” is an epic entry. The melody is stunning with a lot of seafarer romance and Viking style.
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F.Y.R. Macedonia 2018: Interview with Eye Cue
With the Eurovision entry “Lost And Found” Eye Cue are going to represent the FYR Macedonian colours in Lisbon. The song is about a deep and...
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Finland 2018: Interview with Saara Aalto
The song “Monsters” is a really catchy and danceable entry. Even if the title of the song doesn’t sound quite optimistic, the melody is strong and...
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Georgia 2018: Interview with Iriao
The song “Sheni Gulistvis” (For You) is a love song with phrases like “the earth keeps turning with love”.
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Germany 2018: Interview with Michael Schulte
The song “You Let Me Walk Alone” is a deeply emotional entry, which is about the feeling, losing his father, when Michael was only 14 years old.
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Greece 2018: Interview with Yianna Terzi
The Greek song “Oneiro Mou” means my dream and will be sung in Greek. It’s a love song which is about to sacrifice one’s life for the other, it...
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Hungary 2018: Interview with AWS
The band AWS has emphasized that their music is characterized by diversity which combines various styles like metal, psychedelic rock, alternative...
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Interview with Lordi (Finland 2006)
As a special VIP guest, Mr Lordi, the lead singer of the Finnish hard rock band Lordi wanted to support this year’s Finnish representative Saara...
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Interview with the Portuguese Fado legend Mariza
Mariza was born in Mozambique and has been involved with music since the age of five. Nowadays she gives concerts all around the world from the...
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Ireland 2018: Interview with Ryan O’Shaughnessy
With the Irish entry “Together” Ryan will follow the musical tradition of the successful years of Ireland in the ESC.
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Israel 2018: Interview with Netta Barzilai
“Toy” is the ambiguous title of the extraordinary Israeli entry. From the first not of the song the listener will get a premonition of what to come.
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Italy 2018: Interview with Ermal Meta & Fabrizio Moro
The Italian song “Non mi avete fatto niente” has a serious theme. It’s about the senseless terror attacks in the recent history.
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Latvia 2018: Interview with Laura Rizzotto
The song “Funny Girl” is about a woman, who does not feel respected by the guy he is in love with. The music genre is exactly what Laura has been...
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Lithuania 2018: Interview with Ieva Zasimauskaitė
The love song “When We’Re Old” is soulfully and touching with beautiful lyrics. What a lovely imagination to be old and still in love with a...
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Malta 2018: Interview with Christabelle
This year’s Eurovision entry for Christabelle is quite a strong one. The message is even stronger, as it’s about mental health.
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Moldova 2018: Interview with DoReDos
The Moldovan song “My Lucky Day” is a happy folk song with a modern arrangement and ethnic parts. With Philip Kirkorov on their side DoReDos will...
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Montenegro 2018: Interview with Vanja Radovanović
Vanja is going to perform his song “Inje” in the Montenegrin language. Vanja is convinced that the language does not have to be understood, the...
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Norway 2018: Interview with Alexander Rybak
The song for this year is called “That’s How You Write A Song”. The modern arrangement with a groovy sound appears contemporary and fresh.
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Poland 2018: Interview with Gromee feat. Lukas Meijer
“Light Me Up” is a very optimistic song with the “feel good” element. Judged by the video clip this could be a really good summer hit.
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Portugal 2018: Interview with Cláudia Pascoal and Isaura
The song “O Jardim” is another melancholic Portuguese entry. It’s about the tragic death of Claudia’s grandmother.
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Romania 2018: Interview with The Humans
The group consists of six members: Cristina Caramarcu (vocals), Alexandru Cismaru (guitar), Alexandru Matei (keyboard), Alin Neagoe (bass) and Adi...
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Russia 2018: Interview with Julia Samoylova
Julia’s song “I Won’t Break” can be taken literally, as she had a lot of hurdles in her life. It’s about to show strength even if it’s hard
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San Marino 2018: Interview with Jessika feat. Jenifer Brening
The duo of Jessika and Jenifer was founded by a funny coincidence, as both were competitors, but Jessika’s hip hop rapper Irol has withdrawn...
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Serbia 2018: Interview with Sanja Ilić & Balkanika
The song “Nova Deca” has only four verses and is the shortest entry by the lyrics. The meaning of the song is that we are in a generation of...
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Slovenia 2018: Interview with Lea Sirk
The song “Hvala, ne” is a proclamation not to believe in the promises of the commercial industry – just say “no” whatever they would like to sell...
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Sweden 2018: Interview with Benjamin Ingrosso
This year Benjamin could fulfil his dream, winning the Melodifestivalen with “Dance You Off”. Now he is going to represent Sweden at the ESC in...
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Switzerland 2018: Interview with ZiBBZ
The song “Stones” is about cyber mobbing. In former times people have been tortured with stones, nowadays it has become easy for everybody to mob...
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The Netherlands 2018: Interview with Waylon
The song “Outlaw In ‘Em” is a rocky country song which can be compared with the experiences of Waylon’s own life, not always easy, an unsettled...
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Ukraine 2018: Interview with MELOVIN
The electro pop song “Under The Ladder” is radio-friendly and modern. He will also get support of the stage designer Konstantin Tomilchenko, who...
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United Kingdom 2018: Interview with SuRie
SuRie, whose real full name is Susanna Marie Cork, was born in Harlow, County Essex in 1989 and raised in Bishop's Stortford.
