Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Tonight the Eurovision 2012 season starts for real when we will have the first national final.   Die grosse Entscheidungsshow – Eurovision Song Contest 2012 will be aired live on SF1 at 20:05 CET from Bodensee Arena in Kreuzlingen. The line up is pretty solid (even if someof my favourites didn't make it) and it's hard to predict the outcome. I guess the live performance and the stage presense is crucial once again. Three songs in French. Sosofluo and Ze Flying Zezettes Orchestra both follow nicely Anna Rossinelli's acoustic sound while Eurovision legend Lys Assia goes totally nostalgic. Canadian Katherine St-Laurent sings bits in French in her classic Eurovision ballad. One song in Italian. Chiara Dubey is sweet and fragile with her acoustic song. Flirting with Italian are I Quattro with boombastic tenor pop heard about zillion times before - and most of them better. (I would have preferred this tenor pop in the line up) Patric Scott & Fabienne Louves offer c...

The Swiss line up is now ready when SF also revealed its chosen ones. And there really is a little bit everything for everyone, including the very first Eurovision winner Lys Assia who will be 86 in Baku if chosen. And there is a risk she might be chosen and then also giving songwriter Ralph Siegel his 20th Eurovision entry! This blogger is only worried who the grand old lady will survive the two weeks of rehearsals, PR and the infamous Eurovision holabaloo... But let's not go that far yet. I would have rather seen Vittoria Hyde in her place but.... Atomic Angels - Black symphony (DRS 3) Chiara Dubey - Anima nuova (RSI) Emel - She (SF) Guillermo Sorya - Baby baby baby (DRS 3) I Quattro - Fragile (SF) Ivo - Peace & freedom (SF) Katherine St-Laurent - Wrong to let you go (RTS) Lys Assia - C'était ma vie (SF) Macy - Shining (SF) Patric Scott feat. Fabienne Louves - Real love (DRS 3) Raphael Jeger - The song in my head (SF) Sinplus - Unbreakable (RSI)...

The Swiss Frech speaking broadcaster RTS has chosen its three songs for the national final in December. This bloggers favourite Katherine St-Laurent and two very interesting songs by Sosofluo and Ze Flying Zézettes Orchestra. Now we only miss the six songs to be selected by the German speaking SF and the two from the Italian speaking RSI that will have its own final next week. So far we have these songs ready for the Swiss national final that primises to be a very good one: Atomic Angels - Black symphony (DRS 3) Guillermo Sorya - Baby baby baby (DRS 3) Katherine St-Laurent - Wrong to let you go (RTS) Patric Scott feat. Fabienne Louves - Real love (DRS 3) Sosofluo - Quand je ferme les yeux (RTS) Ze Flying Zézettes Orchestra - L'autre (RTS)

New York born Katherine did Canadian Idol and is now trying her luck in the Swiss Eurovision selection. Her Wrong to let you go is one of the better ballads in there. And she has a great voice. And Switzerland has a history of Canadian female voices to do well in the Eurovision....