It’s February, and that means the annual Eurovision Song Contest is starting to take shape. This year’s theme is “Light Your Fire” and the finals will take place in Baku, Azerbaijan, a historic city on the coast of the Caspian Sea, and home to Ell & Nikki, the duo whose song “Running Scared” won Eurovision last year.
Each year around this time, various member countries of the European Broadcasting Union start picking their […]
After months of watching the finalists compete, after watching the votes come in, and watching the losers get eliminated, the competition has ended, the votes are in, and a winner – cue the confetti – has been announced. And the winner is… Azerbaijan. Yes, yes, I know, this week was the final week of the American Idol competition, but last weekend marked the finale (or rather Grand Final) of a much bigger, […]
So, in a previous “Big In…” episode, I posted a video by Germany’s currently reigning Idol-equivalent champion Mehrzad Marashi and the same show’s most successful alumnus Mark Medlock, doing a pretty horrible dance song together… on a boat. Not to be outdone is one Jessy Matador, the 27-year-old Zairian-French singer-and-dancer who represented France in this year’s Eurovision song competition with “Allez! Ola! Olé!” and gave the country its best showing in years. (France […]