Again the same story: Silvia for 2008 Icelandic selection

The controversial Silvia Night is rumoured to be re-entering the national selection in Iceland in 2008 for the eurovision in Belgrade. The rumour started on Youtube and has been spreading, Silvia night is planning a eurovision song contest comeback. Silvia Night participated in eurovision song contest 2006 but didn't make it to the final to many peoples surprise. She ended up at number 13th in the semifinal.

UPDATE
Silvia Night is having chart success after her new album "goldmine" landed at number 1 on the Icelandic chart this according to wikipedia. Her latest released single "Thank you baby" was also number 1 on the single chart in Iceland. Silvia Night is rumoured to be re-entering eurovision song contest 2008 in Belgrade but its still a rumour.The video to her latest single is one of the most viewed videos on youtube right now.
Source of News: oikotimes.com
Source of Video: youtube.com

Cyprus: Lisa Andreas or Despina Olympiou for 2008?

Lisa Andreas was born in Kent, UK, of a British mother and a Greek Cypriot father. She represented Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, that took place in Istanbul, Turkey and she is thinking of doing it again if Cyprus’s national television, CyBC , offer her the opportunity to do it.

Lisa Andreas recently declared that if she is asked by the Cypriot broadcaster to represent her country again she would happily do it. Although there are already rumors that Despoina Olymnpiou will represent Cyprus in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade, it remains to see if Lisa’s declaration will be taken in consideration by the Cypriot national television.

Lisa represented Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest in Turkey in 2004 and she placed 5th with Stronger every minute with 170 points giving this way the opportunity for her country to qualify directly to the finals. Lisa has released her new single, Hypnotised, in May 2007.

You can listen to Hypnotised by clicking http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=160613258 through the Beat Factory Myspace.

source esctoday.com

Cyprus: CyBC's plans for JESC 2008

CyBC, the Cypriot broadcaster who will be hosting the 2008 Junior Eurovision Song Contest, have released the promo video clip they submitted to the EBU for the country's candidacy. Information on the Arena, the staging and the activities planned for the participating artists has been made public by CyBC who state they are already prepared to face the greatest challenge in the channel's history.

The 2008 JESC will be held in Lemessos, Cyprus's largest resort very popular with international travelers, at the Spyros Kyprianou Athletic Center just outside town. The stadium is already complete with a Press Center and Press Conference rooms, several large halls, a restaurant with views of the Arena and more than 20 dressing rooms. The commentary booths are already in place and the vast underground garage will be used for technical equipment storage. The arena itself will seat 7.500 spectators.

George Papadopoulos, the CyBC production designer, promised a 15 metre in diameter, sealed glass pool-stage from where goddess Aphrodite will rise. There are going to be large screens at the back of the stage, the largest being 12 metres high by 30 metres long. There are going to be projections on all the screens, and this year's innovation from Cyprus will be that some of the screens will offer the children the opportunity to interact, something that has never been done before.

The postcards have been already designed. The children will also shoot their own messages during JESC week. A lot of fun activities have been planned for the young artists and their escorts to make their stay an educational and unforgettable one. They will sail the seas like pirates on a specially designed pirate ship and take part in a Treasure Hunt.

CyBC have invested heavily on new technical equipment and training to meet with the JESC challenge. Cypriot key production staff will work together with experts from the UK to deliver an imaginative and high quality show.

You can watch the entire promo video http://www.cybc.com.cy/junior/junior2008_video.html
(in English), where you can see computer generated images of the stage.

source esctoday.com

8 acts compete for Rotterdam Sweden: JESC national final line up announced

TV4 has announced the complete line up for the national Junior Eurovision Song Contest final. Eight acts will be competing on August 31 for the chance to represent Sweden in the 2007 edition of the contest in Rotterdam.

The complete line up as exclusively revealed to our partner site escsweden.com is as follows:

2 Times 2(Conrad, William, Shenie and Nikisha, 10-12 yeqrs old from Stockholm)-SuperstarFelicia Warvne (14 years old from Goteborg)-Upp & ner (Up & down)Emmalisa Norrhamn (14 years old from Kristianstad)-Bara du kan (Only you can)Roshanak Hosseini (14 years old from Falun)-Ta min hand (take my hand)Marcus Sjöstrand (13 years old from Goteborg)-Utan dig (Without you)Rufus Blad (13 years old from Stockholm)-Superhjälten (Super hero)Vendela Palmgren(13 years old from Stockholm)-En som dig (One like you)Frida Sandén(13 years old from Stockholm)-song to be announced

Molly Sanden's younger sister, Frida, will be competing this year in the hope of following her sister's success in the Swedish Junior national final last year.

Source of News: esctoday.com

RTP (Portugal) announced rules for JESC 07 and repeats the last year's formula!

RTP, the Portugal broadcaster of Junior Eurovision Song Contest announced rules for the portugal national selection on 29/6.
The main points are:
1. The age of the participants must be between 10-15.
2. The childrens who want to participate have two months to write and compose original songs and send it to RTP channel.
3. After, twelve songs will performed in the live portuguese final.
4. The winner will be choosen via televoting system

All the rules translated from Portuguese channel:

FESTIVAL OF THE SONG JÚNIOR 2007 It consults the regulation and it participates! The Festival of the Junior Song is in return with the 2007 edition! If you are a young talent you do not wait more, consults the regulation the low e participates!

REGULATION
1. The Festival of Song JUNIOR 2007 has for objectivo to promote talentos young in the area of fast music, as well as the apuramento of one of them to represent the RTP in the Eurovisão Festival of Song JUNIOR 2007 to carry through in day 8 of December in the city of Roterdão in Holland.
2. 1 of July enters and 31 of August of 2007, the RTP goes to open national competition for selecção of 12 songs and respective interpreters who will go to constitute one end in great format of espectáculo of television. This end it will leave a winner who will represent the RTP in the Eurovisão Festival of Song JUNIOR 2007 in Holland.
3. The competition is opened the young that until day 8 of December of 2007 has ages understood between 10 and 15 years.
4. The authors of the songs (letter and music) will have to participate in the interpretation of the song as singers or musicians and therefore to also have ages understood between the 10 and 15 years in day 8 of December of 2007.
5. Each song cannot have more of the one than eight young in palco.
6. Each song cannot exceed the two minutes and forty and five seconds (2 ' 45' ') and must have a minimum duration of two minutes and thirty seconds (2' 30' ').
7. the letter of the song must be written and be interpreted in Portuguese.
8. The songs will only be considered whose letter and music never have been commercially edited, published or interpreted in public.
9. O(s) intérprete(s) will have to concur with a song (letter and music) with mixed voice and whose register could be amateur or half-professional. The support of the song the competition will have to be COMPACT DISC.
10. O(s) intérprete(s) will have to also send the letter of the song in digital support (COMPACT DISC) and a photocopy of its Ticket of Identity.
11. O(s) intérprete(s) will still have, together with the COMPACT DISC of the proposal of its song, to deliver to a DVD with actuação in Karaoke of a subject any to its choice where they are salient you endow them vocal and the interpretation. This writing must be amateur with quality.
12. To be able to correspond to the rules of the European Broadcasting Union for the Eurovisão Festival of the Song, the RTP will have to be detainer of some respeitantes rights to the winning song, in the national and international scope.
13. The selecção of the 12 finalistas songs will be carried through by a jury consisting of the RTP.
14. The voting in the 12 finalistas songs for apuramento of the winning song will be carried through by the process of "televoto".
15. To each song a telephone number will be attributed and will be successful the one that to get the biggest call number.
16. In the case of two or more songs to be with equal call number in the first place, the sattle of matter will have to become through private voting for the remaining interpreters, being been valid each interpreter or each song a vote. If to persist ties up to it, the final classification will be determined for the vote of the interpreter new.
17. After seleccionadas the 12 finalistas songs, these will be produced by a musical producer chosen by the RTP.
18. After produced, 12 musics will have to be mixed with the respective secondary voices (it will be case of this) resulting in one play back without main voices. The main voices will have obligatorily to enter in direct in the program.
19. All the instruments that will be in palco the order of the authorized interpreters and for the RTP cannot only be amplified, serving as adereços.
20. The young artists can already have actuado the ground as main interpreters or of support in a produced COMPACT DISC professionally, or can already have professionally been represented. They can have little signed a contract of writing for one edition single before this Festival of the Song, but this contract cannot afectar the cession of rights intended by the RTP.
21. The RTP will have to receive from the parents or people in charge of education of the authors of the song a declaration certifing that the song is original, that commercially was never edited, published, or interpreted in public and that was composed for the young artist.
22. Event during the assays is not allowed to the presence of the in charge parents/of education in the place it, nor in palco at any moment. In the last general assay with wardrobe and in the proper program, the in charge parents/of education will be able to attend espectáculo in place to assign for the production.
23. In the direction to preserve image of the young winning artists, the RTP, in the 12 following months to the Festival, she is detainer of its rights of image, having of being consulted for any share of commercial scope that with them if he intends to make.
24. He fits to the RTP to guarantee clothes to each intervening finalista.
25. All the intervening ones of palco of the winning song are obliged to participate in the Eurovisão Festival of the Song Junior 2007 in Roterdão in Holland between 1 and 9 of December. 26. During this period and as prémio, the RTP will support the trips and the stays of all the elements of palco of the winning song, including a companion for element.
27. They will not be able to concur familiar of employees of the pertaining companies for group RTP, duly warned disqualification of the song.
28. Any insult of the present regulation can take to the disqualification of the song the competition, after duly appreciated for the RTP. Omissive questions in this regulation will be evaluated and determined by RTP
29. The proposals of songs (COMPACT DISC), karaokes (DVD), the letter of the song (COMPACT DISC) and the photocopy of the Ticket of Identity must be sent stop:
RTP Festival of the Junior Song 2007 Department of Programs Recreativos Av. Marshal Gomes of the Coast, nº37 1849 - 030 LISBON
Source of News: http://www.rtp.pt/programas/index.php?article=1824&visual=4
Source of Picture: http://noticias.rtp.pt/web/rtp_nova_imagem/rtp/logotipos/rtp/v/RTP%20RGB%20positivo%20vertical.jpg

NTU Announced the 12 finalists ...

NTU announced the 12 finalists for the Ukrainian Eurovision junior song contest selection. The Ukrainian entry for Jesc 2007 will be announced at 29 September at the end of the live selection. The winner will be selected via televoting.

The Ukrainian national jesc 07 finalists by NTU:

1. Belik Vladislav, 14, Lugansk
2. Borodin Dmitry, 10, Donetsk
3. Shust Yarina, 14, Brody
4. Dmitrienko Valeriya, 13, Kiev
5. Schegelskiy Nazariy, 14, Kamenets-Podolskiy
6. Barabulya Kristina, 12, Kirovograd
7. Galitskaya Ilona, 12, Nikolaev
8. Grossu Alina, 12, Kiev
9. Karaschuk Vlad, 10, Kiev
10. Petrik Victoriya, 10, Nerubaiskoe
11. "Fresh Art" band, 14-15, Vinnitsa
12. Ivanova Marietta, 11, Kiev


Source: http://1tv.com.ua/euro/childeuro/euronews/07/06/05/17/30.html

Bulgaria announces selection procedure for Belgrade

Bulgarian broadcaster BNT has revealed the plans for the selections for the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest in Bulgaria.
Songs can be submitted until 24th September.
The winner of the Bulgarian selections will compete in the final in Belgrade next year, thanks to the good result of Elitsa and Stoyan in Helsinki.

source www.12points.tv