Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

The European MTV Music award nominations are out and four names familiar from Eurovision are running for the Best European Act this time. Marco Mengoni is nominated in Italy (along with Fedez, Salmo, Emma and Max Pezzali). He already won this award in 2010. In Greece it's a battle among others between Greek Sakis Rouvas and Cypriot Mihalis Hadzigiannis while in Germany Lena is among the nominees. She won this award already in 2011. We also have Auryn in Spain against Pablo Alboran . Auryn was the runner up in the Spanish selection 2011 and Alboran was heavily tipped to do Eurovision this year....  In recent year the Eurovision stars of the past (or the near future) has often been featured also in this MTV affair proving Eurovision is up to date, at least in some cases :-) But one question comes to mind.... where's Dima Bilan ? Have Russian abandoned him? Or maybe after 7 national nominations and winning last year the Best European Act it's time to give away to oth...

TRT has having online poll once again to see who the Turks want to represant them. This method has been used the past a couple of years and indeed the favourites have ended up on Eurovision stage. Instead of having an open poll they have proposed five names instead so could this mean these five have agreed to go to Germany if chosen? Three of these names are very familiar and rumoured and tipped already before namely Murat Boz,  Emre Aydın and Şebnem Ferah. Hande Yenerand Atiye Deniz arenew names on this list. Previosuly both Aydın  and Ferah have turned Eurovision down if my memory doesn't completely fails me, or at least have rumoured to have done so.  At the moment the situation looks like this: 1. Murat Boz   30% (2.479 votes)   İki Medeni İnsan Maximum Sallana sallana 2. Emre Aydın  28% (2.388 votes) Alıştım Susmaya Bu Yağmurlar   Git 3. Hande Yener   14% (1.214 votes) Bodrum   Sopa Romeo 4. Atiye Deniz   14% (1.205 vot...

TRT launched an email voting for the fans to name their favourite singer for Turkey in Oslo 2010 some time ago and apparently these four names were the most voted for: maNga , the band that won the MTV Europe music award 2009 for Europe's favourite act, Armenian-Turkish alternative rock star Hayko Cepkin , Emre Aydin who won the same MTV Europe award maNga did a year before, singer-song writer Sebnem Ferah and pop singer Murat Boz . TRT is now negotiating with the artists in question - all of them mentioned many times the past couple of years as possible entrants, or wished for - and also trying to figure out what kind of an act would do in 2010: male, female or a band. If this top-4 turns out true it is quite remarkable Tarkan is not on it.... and why no one ever mentions Mustafa Sandal ?

The latest internet rumour is Emre Aydin has been selected for Turkey 2010, as the neverending saga of possible Turkish participants. He is an award winning rock singer-songwriter and released six hit singles from his debut solo album 3 years ago. He also won the MTV Music Award ast year. After winning a talent show in 2002 he got a record deal for his band 6.Cadde that was formed already in 1999. They broke up and Emre released his first solo album in 2006, Afili Yalnizlik with hit singles like Afili yalnizlik , Kim dokunguysa sana ona git and Git that all made it to #1 in Turkey.