Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Loreen of Sweden is the 15th previous Eurovision song contest winner who has decided and/or managed give it another try. Only Ireland's Johnny Logan has managed to win twice, as we all know. One can't really do a ranking however as the contest had changed so much from the 1950's with maybe a dozen songs to the approx 40 we have these days. In coming days I will feature the winners who decided to come back  after  winning the contest as there also many winners who have won with their second or third try. Charlotte Perrelli (48), ex Nilsson went solo in Melodifestivalen 1999 after having sung with several dancebands since she was 13. Her heavily ABBA inspired schlager banger Tusen och en natt won and went on winning in Jerusalem as well 17 points ahead of Iceland's Selma, the hot pre-contest favorite whose song was very up-to-date instead. Nostalgia won and Sweden took its 4th win. She gained great success at home and some abroad touring Europe and Middle East, was voted ...

Eurovision 2008 winner Dima Bilan is now also a silver screen actor, as his debut as leading role premiered in Russia yesterday. He's actually doing a double role in a drama of love and war that takes place in the first world war and 100 years later in our times. Bilan is lieutenant Andrey Dolmatov, and there's princess Vera Chernysheva until the world turns upside down in the catastrophe that is the war and world is divided into different camps.... but love is immortal and unites people, even after one hundreds years.... The film Hero ( Герой )  is shot in Paris and Lithuania. The movie will premiere in April also in the US and rest of the world under title The heritage of Love .