Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Rockwell (aka Kennedy William Gordy) is true Motown royalty: he's a son of founder and CEO Berry Gordy and named after William "Smokey" Robinson. To avoid accusations of nepotism he secured his record deal without his father's knowledge and agreed to be called Rockwell instead of using his Gordy name.  His career however idn't last long; three albums in mid 1980's and Somebody's watching me, his debut single his only real hit. The chorus is sung by Michael Jackson and no one can miss his voice really.  Additional backing vocals are by Jermaine Jackson.  This was a #2 in the US, #6 in the UK and topped the charts in Belgium, France and Spain, while being a top-10 all over Europe and New Zealand.  DJ Bobo used the song in his Somebody dance with me (#1 in Sweden and Switzerland among other) with various remixed and re-releases over the years, as did Beatfreakz in their pseudo-cover (#1 in Spain and charting most everywhere). Several other co...

My flying reporter Robert had a morning chat with the Broggini brothers Ivan and Gabriel aka Sinplus. What have they been up to since winning the ticket to Baku 2012 five months ago? Whose song could they cover? What is their parents favorite band? And what their aim is? And why don't they sing in Italian? Find it all out here: Why are you interested in participating in the Eurovision? There isn't much of a chance for a young rockband to get noticed so we decided to participate and everything's going well! And now that we are here, Eurovision can help us also to cross the borders, Switzerland is such a small market. And if you don't qualify for instance, will it hard your career? We just signed with Warner to release our album in Europe after we won the Swiss selection, some 100 million people will see us now here, so no. Eurovision is a good start for this band. Of course it's important to reach the final but it's already good to be here. When d...

Switzerland has often borrowed foreign singers to sing for them, most notably Céline Dion who brought them their second victory in 1988, and Estonian girlband Vanilla Ninja in 2005. Despite two victories Switzerland also sports two miserable zero pointers: Gunvor in 1998 and Piero Esteriore, who managed to get zero points in a semifinal with 22 acts! Now they chose another Swiss Italian singer to represant them for the second year in a row but a singer with a solid career and international fame. Last year Dj BoBo was amongst the superfavourites but failed to make the final, let's see how Paolo will do in Belgrade... Paolo Meneguzzi was born as Pablo Meneguzzo in Mondrisio, Switzerland in 1976. He got his first guitar from his grandfather, a multi instrumentalist, before he was big enough to play it. His career started in South America in 1996 when he won the Viña del Mar festival in Chile with Aria, arió . Three albums in Spanish followed ( Por amor , Paolo and Emociones ) before ...