BWO are about to take on the U K market with the latest release from Big Science Album 'Right Her Right Now' Then with this new Mix they have a secret weapon of the Fun-Tasic singerVelvetdoing back-up. She brought us 'The Queen' from her new album and in Melodifestivalen 2009.
Yet Sweden did not pick either of these great Artists for there Melodifestivalen Final 11 at Globen !
Its been a BIG week for BWO who thanks to 'scandipop' did a
LIVE show at Borderline in LONDON Town, its been over a year since
BWO performed in the U K They sang a 9-song set to over 200
strong UK Fan base. See some great pics & report at
Nanne Grönvall who brought us 'One More Time' Swedish
Pop group of the 80's and into the 90's and perhapes the Melodifestivalen Best Anthem of All- Time the entry 'Håll om Mig' This song came 2nd in 2005- and so many swedes voted for Nanne over Martin Stenmarck that year!
Yet, still the thumbing Bass and tune called 'Hold Me' ( in english) is Nanne's best loved song.. Well she has done it again with her new single 'Otacksamhet' riding high in the Swedish Single charts at No:2
Before 'One More Time' the band was called 'Sound of Music'- And back in August Nanne re-joined singer Angelique Widengren at 2009 Pride Park. To sing their 1986 Melodifestivalen hit Eldorado (4th) & 1987's entry Alexandra (4th) See a short clip HERE
We are hoping with a New album on the way Nanne could even be one of the Stars to be confirmed to be part of Melodifestivalen 2010 - Listen to the new tune see What you think? Is Nanne an early contender for Melodifestivalen 2010. Here is Nanne's last
Melodifestivalen performance in 2007 with her dancers ...and
Jade has come a long way already with her career during 2009. She was selected by the British public in 'Your Country Needs You' to bring UK back to
its former Eurovision Song Contest glory- it worked she came 5th in the Moscow Final.
Singing 'My Time' this song sounded like an very fitting tribute to Jade herself. Wrote by Andrew LLoyd Webber & Diane Warren it became
UK's Eurovision Entry for 2009.
As Jade wore the Eurovision UK crown proudly in Moscow.
Jade Ewan is from Plasistow, London and is no stranger to the World of Dance-Pop.
She was a member of her own R&B band called 'Trinity Stone' back in 2005- They managed a couple of Radio Hits in U K Ireland & Russia yet they never released their debut album.
She is part Jamaican-Italian, on her fathers side and her mother is blind & her dad partially blind, so Jade spent a lot of her teenage years looking after her family at home. Still Jade managed to find time at aged 12 to star in the West Ends Lion King as Nala. Another musical honour
is for Jade's songwriting having collaborated with a few other artists.
She co-wrote for R&B band 'Booty Luv' a song called "A little bit"
this was follow up to the big hit 'Boogie 2 nite'
for them.
Now she will join the successful R&B Pop band 'Sugarbabes' with the launch of their New album
While this week Jade's new single 'My Man' is making lots of waves back home in U K -its a great track.
Our Jade certainly loves a challenge joining the R&B Pop band
that has a history of UK No:1 singles and bust-ups Here is the fab solo single from Jade out NOW 'My Man' See how she really has it 'All'- at the moment, check out the Vid..
Two winners of Eurovision Alexander (2009) with Elisabeth (1985-part of Bobbysocks) these two Norwegian
Stars in fact toured together before this years Eurovision Contest in May. As part of Elisabeth Andreassen
tour for her new Album Spelemann, here they sing two folk classic songs wrote by Benny Andersson. What a great duo
they make...
even if 'La Det Swinge' (Bobbysocks 1985 song) was not on their playlist! perhapes in Oslo 2010.
Victoria Police have issued an SOS and are currently on the hunt for the white jumpsuit originally worn by Agnetha Faltskog during their 1977 Australian Tour.
The jumpsuit, which Agnetha wore on Arrival cover, and is seen in the opening scene of ABBA The Movie. The jumpsuit has Agnetha's name on the back, and is believed to have been stolen from a Healesville house then sold on at a garage sale.
The famous jumpsuit was gifted to a Qantas flight attendant in 1977 as Agnetha was on the long journey home from Abba'a Australian Tour. This year the flight attendant leased out her home with this treasure stored in the shed at the house.
The tenants are now being interviewed by Police, a Victoria Police spokeswoman said. Police would like to speak to anyone who may have attended a garage sale at the Don Road House in May this year.
What about Frida's jumpsuit, is no one bothered about that one ? At least Frida's had the nice ties at the bottom made for her boots- it was always the blond one though ! Stay tuned for more jumpsuit News....
It maybe a quiet time for Melodiestivalen & Norsk Melodi Grand Prix,
we can only reflect on some great old entry thats gone by. Yet for some TV stations all across Europe it's a most hectic time. The pressure is still on, as deadlines are met for new songs for
Eurovision 2010- to be put in for each national Pre- Selection TV show, to
find the one song to fly the flag in Oslo next year.
Over in Norsk-land they are calling it the 'Rybak effect' as they have now a record number of
songs and norwegian songwriters- flooding into the office! This will create a lot of international attention to NKR'S Melodi Grand Prix 2010. As well as a more serious and better quaility of music submissions in Norway following last years runaway win. We will track the progress on the blog.
Meanwhile over in Stockholm at Melodifestivalen H.O. plans are just being put in place. Each year Melodifestivalen picks 4 wildcards for the semi-final heats. One these 2010 wildcards will
be choose by a 'new' on-line selection, this has been done by Spain in recent years with
great success.
Sweden has picked unknown performers before for Melodifestivalen back in 2007. They picked upMarie Lindbergtook her out of her class room where she was a school teacher. Marie was a singer songwriter and performed her magical 'Trying to Recall' she went on to Globen, became a firm favourite with the public . Which gave her fifth place that year, see this clip- of Marie, or is it a drag queen! its from GayGalan 2008!
Yohanna recorded her first album at the age of nine, which was released only in 2000. This debut album was a huge success and was followed up by a second album in 2001, confirming her as Iceland's child prodigy.
Yohanna’s teenage years were spent working in and out of the studio with musical instructors, songwriters and producers. After turning down a recording contract with a major label, Yohanna spent some time in Denmark working on her vocal techniques. During this time she also recorded her first adult album ”Butterflies and Elvis” with British songwriter Lee Horrocks and sound engineer Thomas Yezzi. This album has now been re-vamped and released internationally with critical acclaim all over Scandinavia. + this fantastic video for her popular Hit "Is It True?"
In 2008 songwriter Óskar Páll Sveinsson asked Yohanna to sing “Is It True?” for the 2009 Iceland's Eurovision Pre-selection Contest. It famously won 2nd place in Moscow, Eurovision 2009. Giving Alexander Rybak a good run for the top position.
