Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Feel need to confess your sins? Jacques Houdek is listening.....

Jacques & Jacques. And the oddest duet in the Eurovision history maybe. He starts back turned to the audience talking to the camera and then keeps alternating his camera angles depending which voice he is using, even his jacket is divided into smoking and a leather jacket. He is also in the backdrop singing to himself. Everything is large from the images to stripes in his pants.... the strings break is hysterical. Then his backing singers enter the stage and pyros explode followed by rain of fire that makes sunflowers grow. I wonder how tv-audience seeing and hearing this for the first time will react? Will they be too confused to vote, or will they do just that in all it's absurdity? But somehow it works and he doesn't miss a note. I don't think I will never listen to this again after the final, yes because I think this will make it, but it's a curious addition to the long list of weird acts in Eurovision...

Oh dear. Croatia's own Pavarotti duets with himself, his three backing singers are moving in unison, there's a mad violinist, crazy cellist, sunflowers are growing and the rainbow appears in the end as icing on the cake while pyros lit the stage all the time All we miss are unicorns dancing and some fairies falling from the rooftops with a confetti rain. This is so kitchy and corny it's certaily qualifying.... and at this point I'm not sure if I can really care anymore and just give in....

One more music video for the edition: Croatia. Isn't it magical how his voice changes  once he wears the glasses! The video features also Emanuel Pavon, who will join him on stage in Kyiv for the violin solo.

Pictured the national flower of Croatia, iris Jacques Houdek (36) was internally chosen to represent his country with My friend , a song he co-wrote with Tony Roberth Malm, Siniša Reljić, Arjana Kunštek, Fabrizio Laucella and Ines Prajo. Željko, who likes to be called Jacques, is a familiar name in Eurovision world and in the Balcan area. He has studied in the Berklee Collage of Music in California, and in France, Italy and Greece. He has tried to get to Eurovision many times before failing to win the national final: 2002-2006 every year. Then again in 2011 when he lost in the final match to Daria Kinzer to sing Lahor/Celebrate . He has also tried his luck in the UK in Open Mic UK and X Factor. He has been recording artist since 2004 and has collected a pile of silver, gold and platinum discs. But music isn't his only interest. He has been involved in politics supporting conservative Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and later supported a populist mayor candidate. Afterw...

Internally selected Jacques Houdek has also released his entry for Croatia for Eurovision 2017, My friend . No comment....