Greta Salóme is one of three (yes, three!) returnees from the 2012 contest and this time she goes solo. Her song holds a lot of meaning to her and Eurovision fans as you can see from our interview with the Icelandic singer. Matt speaks to Greta about the voices and meaning behind her song, the beauty of Iceland and Christmas …
Iceland: Greta Salóme Is Heading To Stockholm
2016 is the year, that marks the 30 year anniversary for Iceland’s debut at the Eurovision Song Contest, and with this, the island with about over 300.000 inhabitants celebrated this with a spectacular show. To show how much the Icelandic people care for the song contest, they opened the show with a spectacular opening of previous Icelandic entries from the …
Podcast: Swedish Broadcaster SVT picks host and wants to change the show
We are back with another edition of the ESC Know-It-Alls Podcast discussing the latest and greatest news, developments and general Eurovision related info. Today’s panel includes Matt (ESC United Editor-in-Chief), Jake (ESC United Editor) and Sadie (ESC United Editor). Today’s topics: Petra Mede and Mans Zelmerlow to host Eurovision 2016 Nika Kocharov & Young Georgian Lolitaz to represent Georgia …
Iceland: Söngvakeppni 2016 artist revealed
The Icelandic broadcaster RUV has announced the list of artists that were chosen to take part in Söngvakeppni 2016, has been revealed. Performers have to have Icelandic citizenship while songwriters that were non-Iceldanic, had to team up with local songwriters in order to be eligible. 260 entries were received and the list was narrowed down to 12 by a special …