Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

It's time for our Flying reporter Robert to chat with the first of the Big5 artists, France's Amandine Bourgeois who turns out to be very chatty, funny and lovely girl indeed! She tells how she ended up from Toulouse Irish pubs to Malmö via Royal Albert Hall, Le Zénith and Olympia,  how she hopes to become a singer-songwriter, will she act like a teenage fan in front of Anouk and Bonnie Tyler? Who fell in love with her voice so much he invited her to Germany? How about a Punch in Comptoir Général? And most of all: Who would she like to see waving the French flag in Eurovision 2014? Hello Amandine and thank you for your time. Let's talk first about your music career. Can you describe the type of music you are making? I think it's blues, rock style. Like my entry L'Enfer et moi . My first album was more pop music. Pop folk actually! The second one was soul and rock, r'n'b, you know? The third album I am prepairing will be like my entry, blues and roc...

Patricia Kaas has launched her own perfume K that she had been developing for a year. So be sure the wear it when you go and see her on her coming world tour where she sings the songs of Edith Piaf. The tour kicks of from Monaco on January 12, 2013 and continues to France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland (four dates: Turku May 1, Helsinki May 2-3, Tampere May 5), Romania and so on...)

Good news for the Patricia Kaas fans in Finland. She'll be back in May! Her new world tour Kaas chante Piaf will see her in Finland for four concerts! May 1, 2013 in Turku's Logomo, May 2 and 3, 2013 in Helsinki's Finlandiatalo and finally May 5, 2013 in Tampere's Tampere-talo. Get your tickets here .  She's to release her new album based on Edith Piaf's classics in November and the first single Hymne à l'amour is already out,  Stay tuned for more news later when it's nearer to the release date. 

Patricia Kaas has been prepairing for a new world tour and new album Kaas chante Piaf  being released on November 5, 2012. But not only. She stars in a new TV-movie Assassinée directed by Thierry Binisti. She plays a role of a woman whose daughter is murdered and whose life will never be the same after. In the film she tries to find out who did it and why? The movie will have a private premiere in Paris on May 3, 2012 in the presence of La Kaas herself. More info here . 

It has been quiet in Patricia Kaas front since her Eurovision 2009 in Moscow with  Et s'il fallait le faire and the tour that continued after that. But now her next plans are out: a new album, a new spectacle and new world tour for 2012-2013! Kaas chante Piaf or she will finally take on Edith Piaf and sing her songs and play the part so often suggested to her, the only real heir of that musical legend Piaf is. 2013 marks also the 50th anniversary of Piaf's death and La Kaas will end her 45 countries world tour in L'Olympia in Paris in February 26-March 2, 2013. The album and tour will include Piaf classics like Mon légionnaire, L'accordéoniste , Les trois cloches , La vie en rose , La foule , Milord, Je ne regrette rien and Hymne à l'amour. But before the album will be presented in NRJ Music Awards in Midem in Cannes later this spring she will release her autobiography called L'ombre de ma voix , and she also stars in Marc Ruscart's movie Noir désert .