Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

One of my top favorite songs and a staging I'm not so sure at all. And it seems I'm not alone with this. Elnur's vocals are amazing, the song's melody is beautiful and I totally love the lyrics. It's all very dark with the lunar eclipse in the backgroud until 2 minutes when a lot of red is brushed into it. Looks like watercolors exloding. The for the finale the moon comes out and everything turns blue. Elnur is rather static standing in one spot most of the time while the two wolves dance around all the time. Well, propably it will look good on screen. If Azerbaijan fails a top-5 I blame staging.... 

Elnur Hüseynov has not only released a Turkish version Karanlıklara Teslim Olmam of his Azeri entry Hour of the wolf for the Eurovision 2015 in Vienna but also a beautiful new video clip has been released shot in ever so wonderful Istanbul. Enjoy!  Oh wait there's more: a remix!

Elnur Hüseynov (28) is no stranger to Eurovision having already scored 8th place in 2008 when he provided Azerbaijan's debut entry Day after day in the contest with Samir. Since then this falsetto singingTurkmenistan born artist with the inceredible voice has starred in Notre-Dame de Paris in Ucraine and won O Ses Türkiye or  The Voice of Turkey where he even covered Sertab Erener's  Aşk , her opening act in Istanbul 2004 Eurovision and one of this blogger's favorite songs. Another reason to like Elnur.  Elnur's talent was discovered early and he attanded a school for gifted kids and specialized in piano. But he didn't chose music career first as he graduated from medical school with a degree in dentistry. Yet he wasn't only interested in teeth and took hairdressing classes. At some point he had time to graduate also from Music Collage, work at the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, sing in Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Choir and win a...