Estonia: Cyprus wins the sixth episode of Eurovisiooni laulud 2023 show!

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Cyprus was the favourite of the jury in the sixth episode of Eurovisiooni laulud 2023, the Estonian show for the Eurovision Song Contest.

The sixth episode of Eurovisiooni laulud 2023 was broadcast last night where a four-member jury reviewed some of the entries in this year’s competition. The panel consisted of Grete Kuld and Tõnis Niinemets, as well as the two guests for this week, Kristel Aaslaid and Jüri Pootsman.

The jury reviewed the following entries:

  • San Marino – Piqued Jacks – “Like an Animal”
  • Serbia – Luke Black – “Samo mi se spava”
  • Albania – Albina & Familija Kelmendi – “Duje”
  • Croatia – Let 3 – “Mama ŠČ!”
  • Cyprus – Andrew Lambrou – “Break a Broken Heart”
  • Iceland – Diljá – “Power”

At the end of the night Cyprus was the big winner of last night’s episode, with Andrew Lambrou and “Break a broken heart” receiving very good reviews. Eurovisiooni laulud 2023 continues next Thursday night 4/05 on ETV.

Source: Εurovoix.com

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Italy: RAI’s trailer for Eurovision Song Contest 2023!

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It’s time for last year’s host broadcaster, RAI, to release their own trailer for Eurovision 2023. The Italian public broadcaster, hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 after Måneskin’s victory in 2021 so they were expected to make a new trailer regarding this year’s contest.

The trailer’s protagonist, is this year’s representative of Italy, no other than Marco Mengoni, who wakes up and gets ready to fly to Liverpool for the contest.

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San Marino: John Kennedy O’Connor will be the spokesperson for Eurovision 2023!

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John Kennedy O’Connor will return to the contest to be the spokesperson of the San Marainese jury votes at Eurovision 2023!

Specifically, last night during the San Marinese  broadcaster’s evening news it was announced that, John Kennedy O’Connor will be the one to announce the twelve points at Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool.

John Kennedy O’Connor has appeared in the contest before as he was the first non-native San Marinese to announce the jury votes of San Marino back in 2013 and 2018. In addition, he has been a judge on 1in360, the talent show used to select a song and a singer for the Eurovision Song Contest in 2018. Therefore, John Kennedy O’Connor has a close connection to the competition and lots of experience. All that remains now is to find out to whom San Marino juries will give their twelve points!

Source: Εurovoix.com

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Portugal: José Carlos Malato and Nuno Galopim will be the commentators for Eurovision 2023!

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Today, the two names who will do the Portuguese commentary for Eurovision 2023 were announced.

The reason for José Carlos Malato and Nuno Galopim to broadcast the Eurovision Song Contest through RTP1 National Channel. The news were announced by one of the two commentators on the Portuguese show “A Nossa Tarde”.

For the sixth year in a row, Nuno Galopim will commentate this year’s competition from Liverpool. Nuno is a writter, actor and director known in the Portuguese art scene. Meanwhile, José Carlos Malato will make a strong return to commentary after missing last year’s competition after testing positive for COVID-19. José is known to local eurofans as the host of Portugal’s National Final Festival da Canção.

This year, Portugal is represented by the singer Mimicat, who won the Portuguese National Final with the song “Ai Coração”. Mimicat will appear fifth, in the First Semi-Final on May 9th.

https://youtu.be/wa3suiOzAAk

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Source: escportugal.pt

San Marino: Piqued Jacks finished shooting their postcard for Eurovision 2023!

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Piqued Jacks, the representatives of San Marino in Eurovision 2023, have just finished shooting the postcard that will be displayed before their performance in the 2nd semifinal on May 11.

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Shooting took place in a castle in San Marino and it displays the members of the band trying to fly a kite. After many unsuccessful attempts, they agreed to play volleyball on the courtyard of the castle they were attending.

The countries that are confirmed to have finished shooting their postcards for Eurovision 2023 are the following:

  • Albania – Albina & Familija Kelmendi
  • Austria – Teya & Salena
  • Croatia – Let 3
  • Cyprus – Andrew Lambrou
  • France – La Zarra
  • Germany – Lord of the Lost
  • Ireland – Wild Youth
  • Latvia – Sudden Lights
  • Lithuania – Monika Linkytė
  • Malta – The Busker
  • Moldova – Pasha Parfeni
  • The Netherlands – Mia Nicolai & Dion Cooper
  • Poland – Blanka
  • Slovenia – Joker Out
  • Romania – Theodor Andrei
  • Belgium – Gustaph
  • Estonia – Alika
  • Greece – Victor Vernicos
  • Azerbaijan  – TuralTuranx
  • Switzerland – Remo Forre
  • San Marino – Piqued Jacks

Piqued Jacks with their song Like An Animal are participating in the 2nd semifinal on the 11th of May, performing 12th.

You can also watch the reaction video of EurovisionFun on Like An Animal below:

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Moldova: Pasha’s Parfeni favorite picture and his special way of asking for financial help!

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This year the official Eurovision account on social media hosts every participant of Eurovision 2023 and they all share their favorite photo in their phone gallery. Today was Pasha’s Parfeni and Moldova’s turn.

 

The photo that Pasha decided to share was picturing his car and he mentioned the following:

Actually, it’s my car and I’m selling it, because we really need some money. So, if you want to support our team at Eurovision Song Contest, just text me!

Indeed it is a special way of asking for financial help. Although, we cannot know for sure whether Pasha Parfeni is joking or not. The truth is that he might be commenting on the high cost needed to be covered in order for an artist to participate in Eurovision as well as the difficulty of retrieving these funds. These obstacles are much more difficult to be overcome from small countries, such as Moldova, which is often described as the most poor country in Europe.

A similar comment was also stated with a tweet of Joker Out!, the representatives of Slovenia in Eurovision 2023. Joker Out! are worried how will their belongings fit inside the 20kg suitcase that they are entitled to bring.

https://twitter.com/JokerOutBand/status/1650097007069896704?cxt=HHwWgICx9YefqeYtAAAA

One thing is for sure…that every artist will be there and they will do whatever it takes, even if that would require them to sell their own car!

Moldova is participating with Pasha Parfeni and Soarele și luna in the 1st semifinal on May 9, performing 10th.

You can also watch the reaction video of EurovisionFun on Soarele și luna below:

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INFE Poll 2023: The results from Türkiye!

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For the seventh consecutive year, the second fan network of the Eurovision Song Contest, the INFE Network, in collaboration with the website EscToday, is conducting the INFE Poll.

Network members in the 21 local fan clubs have already voted for their favorite songs from Eurovision 2023 and via ESCToday, they are announcing their scores.

Here are the results of INFE Türkiye:

  1. Georgia – 1 point
  2. Armenia – 2 points
  3. Czechia – 3 points
  4. Israel – 4 points
  5. Austria – 5 points
  6. Norway – 6 points
  7. France – 7 points
  8. Spain – 8 points
  9. Sweden – 10 points
  10. Finland – 12 points

After incorporating INFE Türkiye’s votes, the updated scoreboard stands as follows:

  1. Sweden – 109 points
  2. Finland – 87 points
  3. Norway – 81 points
  4. Italy – 57 points
  5. France – 54 points
  6. Austria – 48 points
  7. Spain – 44 points
  8. Israel – 41 points
  9. Czechia – 34 points
  10. Moldova – 22 points
  11. United Kingdom – 18 points
  12. Armenia – 16 points
  13. Georgia – 10 points
  14. Germany – 10 points
  15. Slovenia – 10 points
  16. Serbia – 8 points
  17. Greece – 8 points
  18. Croatia – 7 points
  19. Iceland – 5 points
  20. Romania – 4 points
  21. Albania – 4 points
  22. Switzerland – 4 points
  23. Latvia – 3 points
  24. Cyprus – 3 points
  25. Netherlands – 2 points
  26. Australia – 2 points
  27. Estonia – 2 points
  28. San Marino – 1 point
  29. Portugal – 1 point
  30. Belgium – 1 point

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun.com for all the updates regarding the INFE Poll 2023 results!

Source: ESC Today

Denmark: Nicolai Molbech will be the commentator for Eurovision 2023!

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Denmark’s National Broadcaster DR has revealed this year’s Danish commentator for Eurovision.

Nicolai Molbech, who works professionally as a radio presenter, DJ and music journalist, will commentate on the Eurovision Song Contest.

Molbech has commented again in the past, having been back in the commentary booth for another 5 years. From 2008 to 2010 he commented on the competition, but he took a break and returned in 2021 and 2022 along with Henrik Milling.

This year, Denmark is represented by the young twenty-five year old Reiley, who won the Danish National Final Dansk Melodi Grand Prix with the song “Breaking My Heart”. Reiley will appear first, opening the Second Semi-Final on May 11th.

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Source: DR

 

 

Israel: Ilanit is announced as the Israeli spokesperson for Eurovision 2023!

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It was announced today that Ilanit will announce Israel’s jury score in the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023.

She stated the following:

“I am thrilled to close the cycle of 50 years of Israel’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest with “Ey sham”, with which I represented Israel for the first time in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1973. I wish dear Noa good luck, I have no doubt that she will do well!”

Ilanit was the first Israeli representative in Eurovision 1973, where she managed to finish in fourth place with the song “Ey sham”. Ey sham, in fact, held for the next 20 years the record for the highest-placed debut for a country. Ilanit returned to Eurovision in 1977 with “Ahava Hi Shir Lishnayim”, finishing eleventh. Finally, she returned for a third time in 1985 with “Balalaika”, but Israel withdrew from the contest that year.

Israel is the fifth country to announce its spokesperson. The other four are:

Greece: Fotis Sergoulopoulos
Cyprus: Loukas Hamatsos
Spain: Ruth Lorenzo
Switzerland: Chiara Dubey

Israel is competing in Eurovision 2023 with Noa Kirel and Unicorn in the 1st semi-final on May 9, 9th in the running order.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4wbdKmM3bQ

You can also watch the Eurovisionfun team’s reaction video to Israel’s participation below:

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Source: Eurovoix

San Marino: “Like an Animal” Music Video has been released!

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San Marino has chosen its representative for this year’s Eurovision through Una Voce Per San Marino. The winners were Piqued Jacks with the song “Like an animal“, and will represent the microstate enclave in May in Liverpool.

Earlier in April, the final version of “Like an Animal” was released, which was the last entry in this year’s competition to be officially released digitally.

A short while ago, via Piqued Jacks‘ official YouTube channel, the video clip of the track was revealed.

Check out the video clip of Piqued Jacks’ “Like an animal”, by Piqued Jacks for Eurovision 2023:

San Marino is competing in the 12th place of the Second Semifinal on May 11.

You can watch the EurovisionFun team’s reaction to San Marino‘s participation below:

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