Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Nina Zilli is going back to her roots of reggae and ska in her new musical project. She's in Kingston, Jamaica at the moment recording with Alborosie, an Italian roots reggae artist who calls Jamaica home these days. The song they are recording together for his new album has a nice vintage vibe in it and Nina declares happy to be back to reggae "the love of her life"! Here's a video interview with them both about the project. And it also looks like we don't have to wait long for Nina's own new album either, apparently she is already working on it as well. That woman just can't sit down and do nothing, it seems :-) Alborosie (or Alberto D'Ascola from Sicily). He gained success with his band Reggae National Tickets in the early 1990's before moving to Jamaica in 2000. He has collaborated with names like Wyclef, Sisco, Angie Stone, Manu Chao. He is the first white artist to be distributed by Bob Marley's label Tuff Gong. Here's Kings...

Gipsy.cz's Aven romale is one of the rare songs to score a flat zero or nul points in the Eurovision and that happened in Moscow 2009 in the first semifinal. It was Czech Republic's third and so far last participation - last, second to last and last again and even with zero points would make any country to think if there's sense to it all?! (This said there's a rumour they might be back in 2012?!) But Gipsy.cz continued doing what they did before: gigs all over Europe including Finland in various festivals and gipsy music gatherings. Before Eurovision they had released two albums and the third one is coming out in 2011. The first single of it is Desperado . And it's a very nice song indeed, in a Manu Chao style. They also participated in the Czech final in 2008 with Benga beating and in 2007 Muloland and in 2009 they were actually chosen internally.Coming last in Eurovision propably had zero effect to in their career.