At time of publication, Nemo‘s “The Code”, Switzerland’s entry to this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, sits at the top of the betting odds. The contest’s inaugural winner in 1956, Switzerland’s only other victory came in 1988, 36 years ago. Coming off of two contests in a row won by powerhouse countries that had won less than a decade before (Sweden …
Austria’s first winner Udo Jürgens has died aged 80. The artist was the only Austrian contestant to win the Eurovision Song Contest until earlier this year and took part a record three times in a row for the country between 1964 and 1966. “Merci, Cherie” brought the contest to Vienna for the first time in 1967. The news was broken …
The views expressed in this editorial are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions and views of ESC United, its editorial board, its readers, or any other person, entity, or organization. We finally have a host city and tens of thousands of people will head to Vienna next May when Austria will host the Eurovision …
Joan Street wrote ths article for OGAE Rest of the World Facebook page and we wanted to share this with the ESCUNITED readers. I am Joan Street from the U.K. and have been a big fan of Udo Jürgens since first discovering his music in the mid-eighties. In 1989 I attended my first concert in Germany and haven’t looked …
