Free European Song Contest

The Free European Song Contest (abbrev. as FreeESC) is a song contest run by the private channel ProSieben that started in 2020. Different singers representing countries in Europe (mainly) compete every year.

Some of the competitors are famous singers include: Nico Santos (famous singer in Germany), Max Mutzke (represented Baden-Württemberg at the Bundesvision Song Contest 2014, Ilse DeLange (represented the Netherlands at the ESC2014 as member of The Common Linnets), Sarah Lombardi (participant in the 8º season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar), Eko Fresh (German rapper of Turkish and Kurdish descent who won 5 awards).

The latest winner of the Free European Song Contest is Rea Garvey of Ireland.

The Free European Song Contest was created by Stefan Raab (with the collaboration of the private channel ProSieben and the production company Brainpool TV) after the cancelation of the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. The first contest took place at the ProSieben Studios, Cologne, Germany on 16 May 2020 at 20:15 CEST on the television channel ProSieben and the second contest took place at the Lanxess Arena, Cologne, Germany. 

List of winners
 Year  Country  Song  Performer  Article 2020    Like I Love You  Nico Santos  FreeESC 2020 2021    The One  Rea Garvey  FreeESC 2021
Highest placings of non-winning countries
 Best placing  Country  Most recently Song  Performer  Article2nd (twice)    Rollercoaster  Danny Vera  FreeESC 20213rd  Moon  Back to the Moon  Der Astronaut  FreeESC 20203rd    ASAP  Milow  FreeESC 20214th    Statues  Amy Macdonald  FreeESC 20204th    Forever at Home  Helge Schneider  FreeESC 20205th    Alles auf Hoffnung  Gil Ofarim  FreeESC 20206th (twice)    Everything Helal  Elif Demirezer  FreeESC 20217th    Tut mir nicht leid  Mathea  FreeESC 20217th    All We Need Is Love  Stefanie Heinzmann  FreeESC 20208th    VIP  Hugel feat. Bloodline  FreeESC 20218th    Du bist genug  Oonagh  FreeESC 20209th    Mexico  Mighty Oaks  FreeESC 20219th    Highlight (Ti si moja snaga)  Vanessa Mai  FreeESC 202011th    Immer da  Glasperlenspiel  FreeESC 202011th    13 Schritte  Mandy Capristo  FreeESC 202012th    Friends  Kelvin Jones  FreeESC 202014th    Stuck in My Mind  Ben Dolic  FreeESC 202114th    Paranoid  Mike Singer  FreeESC 202015th    Herz  Sotiria  FreeESC 202116th    Reset  Kate Hall  FreeESC 2020

Related pages
Eurovision Song Contest (Eurovision: Europe Shine a Light)
Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Asia Song Contest (Asian version of Eurovision)
AfriMusic Song Contest (African contest based in Eurovision)
Bundevision Song Contest (previus contest made by ProSieben)
Turkvision Song Contest (Turkish contest organised by TMB TV and created by TÜRKSOY for the Turkic countries and Turkic people)
Other websites
ProSieben.de FreeESC- the official website  at ProSieben 
Brainpool's Info of FreeESC - at the official Production website 
Free European Song Contest on IMDb

Category:2020 establishments in Europe
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