Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Here are again some more or less new songs and videos from the Eurovision artists. First of two from France: Amaury Vassili has covered Celine Dion's worldhit My heart will go on while Jessy Matador samples Ler's all chant in Galera . Slovenian megababe Maja Keuc returns with Ta čas from her debut album Indigo. Last but not least Icelandic Paul Oskar does Unicef good with Megi það byrja með mér . These songs are on EFR12' s playlist, too, so do tune in!

Laura Voutilainen is having a very busy summer. She's starring in the Blues Brothers musical cabaret in Tampere all summer but besides that she is flying regularly to Iceland where she is recording her new album with local musicians. The producer of the album that will be released in October is Matti Kallio, a Finn who lives in Iceland. Knowing how small Iceland and how most everyone knows each other can be expect some interesting collaborations or maybe duets? Laura and Paul Oskar? Laura and Yohanna? Hmm, that would be nice! Anyways, let's see if she changes direction a bit as her last but also very succesful albums have been heavily influenced by cover songs from Russia. Worth mentioning is her latest video Rakkauden soturi was shot in Malta so she seems to like the small islands in the corners of Europe!

Iceland participates in the Eurovision for the 21st time. They debuted back in 1986 and have since gathered some good placings and also last places and zero points. They have four top-10 finishes (4th in 1990, 7th in 1992, 2nd in 1999 and 9th in 2003) and this year they are amongst the (fan) favourites again. This is my life should be a sure qualifier for the final, Iceland's first since the semifinals were introduced... Euroband was formed two years ago after the Icelandic final where Regina came 2nd and Fridrik 3rd. For fun they started singing Eurovision songs and last year Fridrik tried his luck again and came 2nd. The most natural step was then to try as Euroband... Fridrik Ómar (26) started playing drums at the age of 5, composed his first song at 10, and by the age of 18 he had already released 2 albums. He also plays guitar and piano. Since then he has done musicals, sung in different bands and one of his albums has sold gold, another one platinum. Regína Ósk (30) start...