06 Bern, Switzerland

### Withdrawing

🇦🇩 Andorra, 🇩🇿 Algeria, 🇨🇳 China, 🇨🇴 Colombia, 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan, 🇸🇲 San Marino, 🇹🇳 Tunisia. 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan

## Voting

### System

Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs

### Winner

🇬🇷 Iasonas Mandilas - *Mono Esena*

**Fabulous Song Contest 6**, often referred to as **FSC #06**, was the sixth edition of Fabulous Song Contest, held in Bern, Switzerland.

64 countries participated in the sixth contest. Iasonas Mandilas from Greece won the contest with the song "Mono Esena" receving a total of 193 points.

### **HOST CITY**

**Bern** or **Berne** is the *de facto* capital of Switzerland. With a population of about 144,000, Bern is the fifth-most populous city in Switzerland. The Bern agglomeration, which includes 36 municipalities, had a population of 406,900 in 2014. The metropolitan area had a population of 660,000 in 2000. Bern is also the capital of the canton of Bern, the second-most populous of Switzerland's cantons. The official language in Bern is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the most-spoken language is an Alemannic Swiss German dialect, Bernese German. In 1983, the historic old town in the centre of Bern became a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

### **VENUE**

The **PostFinance-Arena** (originally known as **Eisstadion Allmend** and **Bern Arena**) is an arena in Bern, Switzerland. It is primarily used for ice hockey and is the home arena of SC Bern. It was built in 1967 and currently accommodates 17,031 people. A characteristic of the PostFinance Arena is that it has the world's largest standing room grandstand within an arena, with a capacity of 10,422 bench seats. The PostFinance Arena was the main arena for the 2009 IIHF World Championships, and has already hosted the inaugural Victoria Cup. Likewise, in May 2016, the 2016 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held at the arena.

### **PRESENTERS**

**Ilira Gashi** was born on 29 October 1994 to a Kosovo Albanian father from Pristina and an Albanian mother from Tirana in the town of Brienz in Switzerland. In 2011, Ilira and her old band *The Colors* competed in the Swiss show *Die grosse Entscheidungs Show*, the pre-selection show for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. Their song "Home" came in third. Ilira later moved to Berlin, Germany, and signed a management deal and publishing contract with Sony/ATV Music Publishing. In 2018, Ilira signed a label deal with Four Music, and released her debut track "Whisper My Name" on 24 August 2018, followed by her second single "Get Off My D!ck" that same year which entered the Spotify Viral Top 50 in the U.S. Her first chart placement was achieved together with Alle Farben and the song "Fading", which reached number 16 on the German Single Charts and number 1 on the German Airplay Charts for four consecutive weeks.

**Luca Hänni** was born on 8 October 1994 in Bern, Switzerland. Luca is a Swiss singer, songwriter, dancer, model and television personality. He rose to fame in 2012 after winning the ninth season of *Deutschland sucht den Superstar*, the German version of the *Idol* franchise. He was the first non-German to do so and also the youngest ever winner of the show. Hänni's debut single, "Don't Think About Me", topped the singles charts in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. It was followed by the release of his debut album, *My Name Is Luca* (2012), which debuted atop the Austrian and Swiss Albums Charts and became a gold-seller in both countries. His second studio album, *Living the Dream*, released in 2013, became his second consecutive number-one album in Switzerland. During kindergarten he received drumming lessons. At the age of nine he taught himself to play the guitar and piano. After finishing school he began training as a bricklayer, which he later stopped in 2012, two years in, in favour of his music career.

### **RESULTS**

This time we had three Semi-Finals with 21 countries in each Semi-Final. Only Top 9 of Semi-Final went to the Grand Final.