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ROY MEETS ANMARY!

Robert is out and about in Baku and Crystal Hall and here's who he met today: Fans being journalists/journalists being fans. Eurovision is really an event for that. Here is Roy Van der Merwe from South Africa. He is the president of the OGAE Rest of the world. This is his 20th year in a row that he is present at the Eurovision. The OGAE Rest of the world was established in 2006 and Roy has been the president ever since. His first Eurovision was in 1983 in Munich. He was a special guest for Ralph Siegel because Roy was such a fan of Nicole who was winning for Germany the year before. He felt the most special in Tallinn, Estonia. He was treated as a VIP there and who doesn't like that?! Beautiful song of Anmary from Latvia is his favourite song for this year and what an accident, Anmary just comes our way and I get a chance to take a picture of Roy and Anmary. Roy told me also that a cover of the Finnish song of 2009, Lose control from the Wal...

Running scared in South Africa

South African artists are real Eurovision fans as the most cover versions come from there these days. David Fourie has recorded several like Norway 2003 I'm not afraid to move on and MoniQue covered amongst others Finland 2009 as Ek val vir jou with Snotkop. Now they have joined forces and covered Azerbaijan's winning Running scared as My hart het klaar besluit . And in my opinion it's much more interesting than the original, rougher arrangement and Afrikaans just sounds so great!

More African Waldo's People covers

Well, one at least. In Afrikaans this time by MoniQue and Snotkop, titled Ek val vir jou . More true to the original.... I guess South Africa should take part in Eurovision as they produced more covers than the European countries put together every year!