Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Remember Koldun? He worked his magic in Helsinki 2007 and gained the best placing for Belarus to date. He has released his second album  Ночной пилот (Night pilot) earlier this year and has just released a fourth single off it,  Облака-бродяги that follows  Ничего ,  Корабли and title track  Ночной пилот . Nice pop music from this Lady Di lookalike. 

The order for the voting has been determined  by the results from last night's Jury Final. An algorithm has been created to try and make the voting as exciting as possible. Remember how Italy was nowhere in the beginning and then slowly started its raise to the top and runner up?  Among the spokespersons many familiar names and faces and even one winner, Finland's Mr Lordi! The former contestants Paula Seling, Dmitry Koldon, Safura, Amaury Vassili, Matthias Matthiasson, Getter Jaani, Sopho along with national finalists Sarah Dawn Finer and Aleksey Matius and last year's hostess Anke Engelke are just some of them! Albania - (Andri Xhahu) Montenegro - (Marija Markovic) Romania - (Paula Seling) Austria - (Kati Bellowitsch) Ukraine - (Aleksey Matius) Belarus - (Dmitry Koldun) Belgium - (Peter Van de Veire) Azerbaijan - (Safura Alizadeh) Malta - (Keith Demicoli) San Marino - (Monica Fabbri) France - (Amaury Vassili) United Kingdom - (Scott Mills) Turkey ...

Dima Koldun worked his magic in Helsinki 2007 scoring Belarus its best result so far, sixth. He was so hot in his native Belarus after that and winning the local Star Factory the year before that various producers were fighting to produce his debut album, amongst them Philipp Kirkorov, Viktor Drobysh and Alexander Lunev that eventually got the job. That collaboration ended soon enough when Viktor refused to consider including Dima's self penned songs on the album... The album came out finally in September 2009 and I bought it in Vilnius for some 4 euros last week. It's a decent album including his original Eurovision entry Angel mechti , a new version of Work your magic in Russian, Dai me silu 2009 and a couple of pop songs in English, I surrender and Somebody's loving you . As bonus tracks two dance versions of  Nastroysya na menya and Ya lyublyu tebya . Unfortunately the album does not include his fabulous single Tsarevna ! Since then he has released excellent single...