Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Pictured is Slovenia's national flower, red carnation Slovenia organized as usual its national selection EMA with two semifinals and the final. 90 songs were received and 16 were chosen. After that previous winner Amaya aka Maja Keuc withdrew and was replaced. She had other career opportunities and decided to go for that. Other previous winner Omar Naber, who represented the country already in Kyiv's frst time in 2005 will return this time with self-penned On my way . He won his semifinals both televote and the jury vote, but in the final he won the juryvote but was second in the televote to teen heartthrobs  BQL. Omar Naber's (35) father comes from Jordan but is Slovenian born and raised. His career started from a talent show, and then he was hot and in Eurovision. He failed to make the final but he's been around ever since. Four albums to his credit, one of them also in English and several attemps to get back to Eurovision (2009, 2011 and 2014 plus 2016 for ...

Omar Naber has won the Slovenian national final Ema 2017 with On my way. He's indeed on his way back to Kyiv where he already competed back in 2005 with Stop and stop he did failing to reach the final. Let's see how it will go with his power ballad. 

With the start of a new school semester Hanna Pakarinen & co has decided to draw attention to bullying and makes it with a song, of course. The whole project has been done without profit and their aim is to make bullying a free topic to talk about and eventually stop it. Well done. Great song, too.