Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

It's time to kick of the usual reviews. The opinions are all mine and if I don't like some song it's simply just not my cup of tea so to speak. If I like something you dislike or hate, it's fine, too. No stresso, no need to be depresso it's just music and tastes that re diverse and therefor beautiful! I also try to predict their success come May a little bit but as we know once the staging is out everything may change, remember Fuego and Rise like a phoenix for example? For this series I have grouped the songs in fours as usual as the songs may have similarities or something in common. Some fours came out beautifully, the others.... well not so well. Here comes the sixth part! SWITZERLAND -Zoë Më - Voyage This is one of those songs that haven't yet quite clicked with me. I have a feeling I should like this a lot more than I do right now. It's in theory just my cup of tea but something... I don't know. I get some Carla Bruni vibes (that are positive) but....

  Yuval Raphael has won HaKokhav HaBa 2025 and will represent Israel in the Basel Eurovision song contest in May. Yuval (24) who comes from Ra'anana has never sung in public before the contest. She has a connection to Switzerland having lived there for three years growing up, in Geneva. She's fluent in French. The search for her song was launched and will be publish in March She's a Nova music festival massacre survivor. She was hiding in a bomb shelter with 50 other people, only 11 survived after terrorist found the shelter and strafed it with bullets. Yuval survived playing dead under dead bodies.  In the first round of the final Daniel Weiss was eliminated and in the superfinal Yuval won both the jury vote and the televote. Update March 9: Her entry New day will rise was released:  1. Yuval Raphael (jury 70 + tele 87) 170 2. Valerie Hamaty (56 + 55) 111 3. Red band & Moran Aharoni (54 + 38) 92 Read more about HaKokhav HaBa here  

Israel is choosing HaKokhav HaBa once again to select its entrant for Eurovision song contest 2025 in Basel. The shows started in October 2024. Apparently thousands of artists, unknown and known ones applied to take part while Eurovision 2019 host Assi Azar is hosting the selection with Rotem Sela. Among the judges an Eurovision veteran Shiri Maimon. The artists sing covers of their choice and only four will reach the final and the entry for Basel will then searched by an internal panel. The artists have been eliminated one by one, or two at occasion until the four finalists were left for the final on January 22, 2025 to select the artist. The song for Basel will then we selected internally to the chosen artist and will be revealed later. The finalists are Daniel Weiss, Red Band & Moran Aharoni, Yuval Raphael and Valery Hamati. Red Band is made of puppets with 20 years of experience already, Yuval is a Nova survivor and Valery Hamati seems to be the favorite to beat being, a Christ...