All photos used in this article credited to the EBU/AVROTROS – Nathan Reinds, Andres Putting, Thomas Hanses. It’s crunch time – in two days, the Eurovision Song Contest will finally return to our screens after a two-year gap, and it’s fair to say the excitement and hype is stronger than ever for Europe’s favourite competition to return. On Tuesday evening, …
Hallo uit Rotterdam! We at ESCUnited are bringing you the final report on the last five acts to rehearse in Rotterdam today. Here are our observations on Belgium, Israel, Romania, Azerbaijan and Ukraine. 11. Belgium Hooverphonic – “The wrong place” Hooverphonic delivered a classy rehearsal today. Geike Arnaert once again proves her with her flawless vocal delivery and excellent …
Each day leading up to the rehearsals in Rotterdam, we will be showcasing each of the 39 acts taking part in this year’s contest and profiling their journey to this point! Today, it’s the turn of a lady who is a queen just like Cleopatra – it’s Azerbaijan’s Efendi! Who is Efendi? Azerbaijan’s latest uptempo pop queen is Samira Azer …
Everyone stop making your breakfast or making your homework! The official Eurovision Song Contest Channel just dropped the Azerbaijani entry for this year. Efendi is going to represent Azerbaijan this year with her song “Mata Hari.” You can watch the video below! The lyrics tell the tale of Mata Hari, a Dutch exotic dancer who was convicted of being a …
When Azerbaijan made their debut in 2008, they made sure that people would know them very well, and since then they have conquered the European music industry with multiple top 10 finishers at the contest, can The Land of Fire keep it up in 2020? About Samira Efendi After the shocking non-qualification in 2018, Azerbaijan needed to get back into …
Azerbaijan’s national broadcaster responsible for the nation’s Eurovision entry, İctimai TV, has opened its submission process for Rotterdam 2020, according to the Azerbaijani Eurovision site 12xal. The Caucasian country will be taking part in the contest for the 13th time in Rotterdam, and will once again be using an internal selection to select the artist who will perform in the …
Flanked by the sharp peaks of the Causcasus, along endless fields of petroleum and brimstone, lies a country that may have changed its stripes over the years but never changed its colours. An ever lurking threat, it is time to take a closer look at The Land of Fire: Azerbaijan Like always, a disclaimer before we start: This post is …
[AdSense-B] All opinions expressed in this article are those of the person quoted and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the other team members or ESC United as a whole. Hello, and welcome back to Eurovision This Decade! We as a team are looking through all the entries of the past decade country by country and showing you our …
[AdSense-B] It seems like we just started with the first rehearsals yesterday, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Today is already the 14th day of Eurovision in Tel Aviv. The Grand Final is tomorrow and on Sunday we will all have to look for something to fill that big void. But what happened today actually? Firstly, after midnight …
[AdSense-B] Following two nail-biting semi-finals and, according to Jon Ola Sand, some incredibly close results, we finally have our 26 runners and riders in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest final. The twenty deserving qualifiers from the semi-finals join Israel and the Big 5 in tomorrow’s big show, but of course only one can win. And that’s where #YOU come in! …
