Greece: Mad video music awards held yesterday

The Mad Video Music Awards 2007, took place yesterday, 25th of June, in Athens, Greece. Many Greek Eurostars performed live on stage and Helena Paparizou, Sakis Rouvas and Michalis Hatziyiannis were amongst the night's big winners. Elitsa Todorova and Stoyan Yancoulov, this year's Bulgarian representatives in the Eurovision Song Contest won the Bulgarian MAD TV Best video clip award.

Many Greek Eurovision stars and hopefuls participated and performed live at last nights' MAD TV Awards show. Elena Paparizou, the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, appeared on stage with her 70’s black style dress. She was the one to start the show and she performed her new song “Mi figeis”.Michalis Hatziyiannis, who participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 for Cyprus with the song “Genesis”, was actually the big winner of the night, walking away with a total of four awards. Michalis also performed on stage with Reamonn, the famous German band, singing the greek-english version of Tonight(Simera).

Tamta who participated in this year’s Greek national final with the song “With love”, sang Mika's Relax-Take it easy, remixed with her new single "Agapise me".

These are wining artists in this year’s Mad music awards:

• Best dance video clip: Sakis Rouvas for the song “Ola giro sou girizoun”
• Best pop video clip: Mihalis Hatzigiannis for the song “Ola I tipota”
• Best Greek (laiko)video clip: Peggy ZinaBest video clip by a male artist: Mihalis Hatzigiannis for the song “Ola I tipota”Best video clip by a female artist: Helena Paparizou for the song “Gigolo”
• Best video clip: Kostas Kapetanidis,director of Elena’s Paparizou nr.1 video clip 2005
• Best video clip of the year: Mihalis Hatzigiannis with the song “Ola I tipota”
  Best dressed artist in a video clip: Helena Paparizou for the song “An eixes erthei pio polly”
• Best video clip by MAD-TV Bulgaria: Elitsa Todorova and Stoyan Yankulov
  Best artist of the year with the most played video clip: Michalis Hatziyiannis with the song “Ola I tipota”

Source esctoday.com

Winner for JESC Romania 2007 is:

Winner for jesc Romania 2007 is: 4 Kids - Sha la la


This is a strong dance song. A member of the band is Alina Ieremias -Romania 2005 brother. They are dressed in red.
The show is chatchy and a Eurovision style song.

Good luck Romania!

TVR decide for Junior Eurovision now!

01. În jurul lumii (Mera Alexandra)
02. Fetiţa deocheată (Trupa A+)
03. Zbor (Loică Andrei)
04. Bum, bum, bum (Ghiţă Karina)
05. Mă dusei ziua la coasă (Trupa Fifty – Fifty)
06. Mama nu ştie (Mateiuc Alexandra Gabriela)
07. Suntem mereu OK (Trupa Chic)
08. Duby Duby (Trupa D @ D )
09. Putem fi prieteni (Lazăr Ovidiu)
10. Rebele (Trupa R.B.L., Iaşi)
11. Rock şi Cha Cha (Trupa Iforti)
12. Trece (Niculae Norina Sânziana)
13. Sha-la-la (Trupa 4 Kids)
14. Asta-s eu (Pânzaru Stănescu Iulian)

Source www.TVR1.ro

San Marino wants to participate in Esc

The microstate of San Marino is one of the last European countries never to have participated in the Eurovision Song Contest. However, it seems that this could change in the next few years - Sammarinese broadcaster SMRTV has confirmed to esctoday.com that they are watching the Eurovision project with a possible participation in mind.
SMRTV considered joining in 2007, but its stockholders, many of whom are related to Italian broadcaster RAI, decided not to support the idea. Whether they will have changed their minds in a year seems unlikely, but SMRTV is aiming to participate at some point over the next few years, according to a spokesperson for the broadcaster.

San Marino is a tiny country surrounded entirely by Italy, and is often reported as being the world's oldest republic. Success for microstates has happened in the past - Monaco won in 1971, for example, and Malta has had 4 top 3 placings to date, the most recent coming in 2005 when Chiara placed 2nd.

As Italy is not participating in the contest, and seems unlikely to return in the near future, San Marino could act as a representative for the Italian language and music tradition in the contest in their absence. As a debuting country, San Marino would have to start in the semi final, should they enter. esctoday.com will keep you up to date on all potential new and returning countries as it finds out the information!

Source: esctoday.com

Promo Video! Eurovision JESC Cyprus 2008

Enter Georgia !Bosnia & Herzegovina withdraw from JESC

Georgia's participation in this year's Junior Eurovision Song Contest can be considered as a lucky break for the new Eurovision enthusiast country as it was made possible by the withdrawal of Bosnia & Herzegovina.

Originally, there had been 19 applications for this year's JESC in Rotterdam with Georgia being the 19th. As the rules of this year's contest dictate that a maximum of 18 countries participate, Georgia was excluded. But a sudden withdrawal of Bosnia & Herzegovina made it possible for them to take part after all.

The final list of participants is as follows (in alphabetical order):

1. Armenia (ARMTV)
2. Belarus (BTRC)
3. Belgium (VRT)
4. Bulgaria (BNT)
5. Cyprus (CyBC)
6. FYR Macedonia (MKRTV)
7. Georgia (GPB)
8. Greece (ERT)
9. Lithuania (LRT)
10. Malta (MTPBS)
11. The Netherlands (AVRO)
12. Portugal (RTP)
13. Romania (TVR)
14. Russia (RTR)
15. Serbia (RTS)
16. Spain (TVE)
17. Sweden (TV4)
18. Ukraine (NTU)

Source from esctoday.com

Constantinos Christoforou in support of Bryan Adams

source: oikotimes.com

Bryan Adams will be in Limassol for a concert on June 29 at the Tsireio Stadium. The preparations for the concert have been undertaken for two months now with technicians and managers from London and Milan. Their wish was for a well known Greek artist to open Bryan's concert. And the name decided: It will be Constantinos Christoforou.

Constantinos who recently won the award of Best CD Single of the year in the Cyprus Music Awards has represented Cyprus three times. In 1996, 2002 (leader of boy band ONE) and 2005. The decision of Bryan Adams' management team to have Constantinos as opening act in his concert reached Constantinos himself who accepted as he felt honoured, loveradio.gr reports.

Constantinos therefore will open Bryan Adams concert with the songs Thes Na Kanoume Schesi and She's No Fool a song which came second in the 2005 Cyprus Song Selection. This is the second Greek Cypriot artist in support of a well known artist. Evridiki will open Evanescence concert this Saturday in Athens.