SAN MARINO: 1IN360 FINAL TONIGHT

San Marino and 1in360 will have the final tonight as well. Coming live from Bratislava, Slovakia of all places, with singers from Norway, Finland, Malta, Italy, Germany, Israel, Austria and Zimbabwe,with one rapper from San Marino, judges from Austria, UK, Slovakia and for the final US based John Kennedy O'Connor, presented by British Nick Earles and Krisitin Stein. In the end one might wonder not what love's got to do with it but what's San Marino got to do with it all?

The voting rules have changed on daily basis the past week so I have no idea how it works and why, so I have given up on trying to follow that path. Someone will win in the end somehow.

Sara De Bue seems to be a fan favorite and also liked by the judges - and would nicely follow the Eurovision tradition of over produced nonsense with screamy ladies that are fan faves and fail big time in the contest - but the song Stay must be loved by the judges as they picked it three times; and now Basti aka Sebastian Schmidt as well as Franklin Calleja and Judah Gavra sing it, even without any major differences in the arrangement it seems.... That's a bit odd really. Oh well...

Basti - Stay

Camilla North - Yo no soy tu chica

Emma Sandström - Diamonds

Franklin Calleja - Stay

Giovanni Montalbano - Per quello che mi dai

IROL feat. Basti - Sorry

Jenifer Brening - Until the Morning Light

Jessika feat. Jenifer Brening - Who We Are

Judah Gavra - Stay

Sara de Blue - Out of the Twilight

Tinashe Makura - Free Yourself

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SONGS OF THE YEAR 2015: #5 KRISTA SIEGFRIDS - ON & OFF

Krista Siegfrids is delivering nice pop tunes one after another and this one is particularly catchy and soon you will be singing along..... Hopefully her Melodifestivalen entry will be equally good!

Boobs for summer: Samantha vs Sabrina!

The old rivals have put their bras (or the lack of them) in peace and entered the studios together to record Blondie's boombastic Call me . Life could be worse.....

ESC 2016 WISH LIST: MARGARET FOR POLAND

Małgorzata Jamroży aka Margaret has also been tipped for Eurovision and apparently she did turn it down but she'd be perfect. She's got a look and persona you can't unnotice nor forget, she's got hit songs, she has been voted or nominated for everything from Trendy artist to the Hope of the Year, Fashion Icon and Glamour Woman of the year besides the usual best video, song, album, debut..... Oh she's also a fashion designer! She's very clever with social medias and would surely use it to her advantage if selected for Stockholm 2016. Her debut album is titled Add the blonde , do we need to say more? Except it includes mostly Swedish written pop tunes like Tell me how are ya , Wasted , Start a fire and Heartbeat . And of course her debut single and internationally noticed Thank you very much that you can enjoy below with all its anti-textil feel. I think she's Eurovision perfection, she's cheeky and fun, can we have her?

TWO POINTS, THREE SOCKS AND TWIN TWIN NUDE

The French Twin Twin may have scored France's first ever last place in the Eurovision with their only two points in the final, but the guys didn't seem to worry that much. They appeared in the French talk show on Sunday night wearing only their socks hiding their privates with the slogan taken from a Celine Dion song: Les derniers seront les premieres . Now that's a good spirit! (Watch it here from 2:33) Having had a bus ride from the Arena back to hotel with these guys I'm not surprised. Oh Yeah!

FINLAND: CONGRATS HANNA PAKARINEN - BABY IS COMING!

No more leave me alones as Eurovision 2007 veteran Hanna Pakarinen has published in her Youtube channel a video unboxing the Finnish state's maternity box aka layette set thus announcing she's due to have a baby later this spring. Congratulations!

ESC 2015: POLINA GAGARINA THEN AND NOW

28-year-old Polina started her career in a tv-talent show (just like Måns and Il Volo). After winning it she though joined a girlband before going solo. She managed to release her debut album before marrying and having a child and gaining 20 kilos (to those extra 20 kilos she claims she had back then). The marriage failed, she started her career again, released another album, lost her 40 kilos, dyed her hair blond and had a string of hits and even had time to remarry and show off her new naked body in a men's magazine before she heard a million voices. Now that's a trasformation!

MALTA: CHIARA AND LUDWIG SHINE AT QORMI WINE FESTIVAL, WITH EYE IN KIEV

I had a pleasure to visit Qormi wine festival and spend a fabulous night. The food was great, the music was great, the wine was great.... and the people were amazing. In between enjoying the music by a duo Gianni & Papps first, and then by Spiteri Lucas Band with singers Kaya, Neville Refalo, Ivan and Eurovision veterans Ludwig Galea and Chiara taking leads (on again.... off again so to speak) and supporting each other through rock and pop classics to today's hits. Highly entertaining evening in every sense of the word. I was lucky enough to have a chat with Chiara and greet also Ludwig, who I saw last in Istanbul 2004. Chiara turned out to be the most lovable and wonderful person - check out the video of Grande amore below to see her blowing kisses just for you! She also sung her very own Angel , but also Euphoria and Waterloo , Dancing queen .... Sadly by dear old Lumia decided not to cooperate at that point anymore :-( But after the jump yo...

NETHERLANDS: HOW LUCKY WE ARE WITH DOUWE BOB

Douwe Bob has released a follow up for his fortunate Eurovision entry off the Fool Bar album, How lucky we are . And indeed, we are lucky there's Douwe doing these laid back pop country tracks that give such good vibes.... Sadly I can't say the same about the video (or maybe I just miss the humour in it?) but I can slow down, keep listening the song and not watch the video.....

EUROVISION 2018 DAY 2: FIRST REHEARSAL FOR MACEDONIA, CROATIA, AUSTRIA

The rest of the semi-final one acts rehearse today for the first time, including Finland. Macedonia - Eye Cue - Lost and found Macedonia takes lead from their music video and they have a drummer and three backing singers on stage, while Marija interacts with all them with or without Bojan. Fucsia minidress for her. Another close up start apparently, and another let's walk to the stairs for the finale. Judging the comments it seems they did it all right and vocally fine. Looking good for them then. Maybe. This song is musically such a mess one needs time to digest it and an average televoter doesn't have it. But isn't that dress a bit too short....? "Sultry", "Cool beats", "Great chemistry", "Unfinished", "Not instant" Croatia - Franka - Crazy Another close up start? Franka is wearing a black lace dress looking like a real diva taking a full advantage of wind machines. smoke and did we see a tear? This ...

SAN MARINO IS READY TO BREAK THE CHRYSALIS

Valentina Monetta's song Crisalide/Chrysalis will have its worldwide debut at March 15 , 2013 at 20.25 CET on SMRTV San Marino. This will be the event that flips the cards and changes the rules of the Eurovision game, you can't afford to miss it! A live stream of the event will be provided on the TV's web site www.smtvsanmarino.sm , on eurovision.tv and esctoday.com. Just one week remain until San Marino's entry to the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden is released! Crisalide will be sung by no other than Valentina Monetta who we all remember from last year's Contest in Baku. The song is composed by Ralph Siegel with lyrics written by Mauro Balestri. This will be Mr. Siegel's 21st entry at the Eurovision Song Contest, and the second one in a row for San Marino. Also watch out for Valentina's brand new website www.valentinamonetta.com , which will come online upon release of the song. The song will be made availa...

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