Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Samira Efendi (28) is one of those artists who finally made it to Eurovision, having been in the national finals and/or internal selection short lists for four times before. As many others she has a past in various talent shows like The Voice, and has represented her country in various international festivals with success, too. Her recordind career started however only last year with three released singles, and Cleopatra is her fourth, and first in English. She's been however involved in many other projects in variety of languages of the region.

Samira Efendi (28) was fifth time lucky and finally got the ticket to Eurovision song contest for her Azerbaijan. Seems to be a trend this year those trying over and over finally do it this time. She beat the other four shortlisted names in the internal selection process voted by a jury of  international music experts (producers, authors, composers, journalists etc). She has already gained experience in the internationbal festivals in Kazakhstan and and local talent shows including The Voice of Azerbaijan. Her short recording artist career includes three singles released last year. Her song will be released shortly and one can only hope it would be something like her singles like  Yol Ayrici ,  Sən Gələndə or  Yarımın Yarı rather than some unoriginal radio friendly Swedish pop. The other ones in the competition were the already familiar Laman "Leman" Dadasheva and Elvin Novruzov, with Jabrail Rasulov and Riad Abdulov.