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Inna

**Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu** (born October 16, 1986), better known simply as **Inna**, is a Romanian singer-songwriter and dancer. She is best known for becoming the first European female singer to surpass one billion hits on YouTube, having accomplished this milestone on February 2012.

## Career

Inna's debut studio album, *Hot* was an international success, appearing in many record charts around the world, and particularly popular in the United Kingdom where it reached number one. The album's lead single of the same name also charted worldwide, topping in 2009 a United States year-end chart. The song won the award for the MTV Europe Music Award for Best Romanian Act at the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards. It got Gold music recording sales certification in Italy, 3× Platinum in Norway and Platinum in Spain.

Inna's second studio album, *I Am the Club Rocker* was produced by Play & Win and received the "Romanian Album of the Year" award from her label Roton. Her third studio album, *Party Never Ends* was released in March 2013.

Inna has won numerous awards, including two MTV Europe Music Awards and over thirteen awards in three consecutive years at the MTV Romania Music Awards. As of May 2011, Inna has sold over 100,000 albums and over 600,000 singles in the United Kingdom. At the end of 2011 Inna became the richest recording artist in Romania and in Eastern Europe.
Mishela Rapo

**Mishela Rapo** was born on 15 December 2000 in Tirana, Albania. In 2012, she attempted to represent Albania in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with the song "Mama Mia (Te Amo)", but did not win. On 27 May 2015, Rapo was declared the winner of *Festivali i 52-të Mbarëkombëtar i Këngës për Fëmijë* with her song "Dambaje". She now will represent Albania in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015.
Lola Marsh

**Lola Marsh** is an Israeli indie-pop band from Tel Aviv. The band was formed as a duo in 2013 by Gil Landau (Guitars, Keyboards) and Yael Shoshana Cohen (Vocals), and was quickly signed by the indie label Anova Music. The band released their first EP, "You're Mine" under Universal Records-Barclay in January 2016.

## History

Gil Landau and Yael Shoshana Cohen met in Tel Aviv through mutual friends.

The idea of the group was first conceived on February 2011 at Gil's birthday party, when they both found themselves outside of the in-crowd party, chanting out melodies while playing on Gil's father's old guitar.

For 18 months they wrote, recorded and performed what would be some of the songs in their future releases. At that point they sought to expand their sound by bringing on additional musicians.

Mati Gilad (Bass), Rami Osservaser (Guitar, Keyboards), Dekel Dvir (Drums and samplers) joined them shortly after. The group started performing in local clubs. They were quickly spotted by the leading local indie label Anova Music who signed the band.

Lola Marsh's music combines deep, warm, nostalgic vocals, heart-on-the-sleeve-lyrics and enchanting guitar melodies. Jason Grishkoff from Indie Shuffle described the band as *"Lola Marsh does a superb job of slowly building up... bit by bit into something mesmerizing that has me waiting on bated breath for their debut album."*

The band premiered their first single, "Sirens", via Nylon Magazine in March 2015 *"The Dreamy Tel Aviv Band's latest song, "Sirens", offers a twist on the typical sweet-yet-gritty indie sound...The track seems ready made for Quentin Tarantino's next film score"*. it quickly received millions of streams and reached #5 on Spotify’s list of the Top 10 Most Viral Tracks in U.S. The song was later featured in the American TV show Scream.

Following massive performances in leading festivals and after attracting media praise, they signed with Universal Music France and Sony ATV.

The band's second single, "You're Mine" was released in May 2015 via Pigeons and Planes. It garnered over six millions plays on Spotify and landed in the service’s top 3 Most Viral Tracks as well as in the top 3 of Hype Machine’s Most Popular Tracks ranking.

Lola Marsh's debut EP, "You're Mine" was released in January 2016. Soon after, they released their first video to the title song of the EP that was directed by Colin Solal Cardo, who also directed their La Blogotheque session.

In April 2016 the band co-wrote an original song with Madsonik and Keith Power called "Drift And Fall Again", for the soundtrack of the feature film “Criminal".

Their third single, "She's A Rainbow", was released in May 2016.

## Members

* Gil Landau - guitar, vocals
* Yael Shoshana Cohen - lead vocals, percussion
* Mati Gilad - bass, vocals
* Rami Osservaser - guitar, keyboards, vocals
* Dekel Dvir - drums, vocals
* Ido Brian Rivlin - keyboards, vocals
MZKA

**Jane Fraser**, best known as **MZKA**, is an Irish singer. She represent Slovenia at the sixth edition of the Europa Song Contest, held in Dnipro, Ukraine, with the song "Supermoon" featuring a Slovene-Croatian duo Vanillaz and an English DJ R3wire and finished at 13th place in the Final with 203 points.
Hasta Luego

* English
* Spanish
* Felicity Birt
* Harvey Cantwell
* David Delazyn
* Blair Dreelan
* Pierre Hachar
* Jr.
* Chaz Mishan
* Justus Nzeribe
* Danny Shah
* Nicolas Tevez
* Maria Luisa Trevejo

"**Hasta Luego**" (English: See you later) is a song by an English singer HRVY featuring an American singer Malu Trevejo. They were chosen to represent Andorra in the Europa Song Contest 6 in Dnipro, Ukraine.
French Montana

* Epic (current)

**Karim Kharbouch** (born November 9, 1984), better known by his stage name **French Montana**, is a Moroccan-American hip hop recording artist. Born in Morocco, he immigrated to the United States with his family when he was 13 years old. He is the founder of Coke Boys Records, and its predecessor Cocaine City Records. In 2012, he signed a joint-venture recording deal with Bad Boy Records and Maybach Music Group.

Kharbouch made his mixtape debut in 2007. In 2010, he had his breakthrough with "Choppa Choppa Down". He released his debut studio album *Excuse My French* on May 21, 2013. In July 2017, Montana released his second studio album, *Jungle Rules*, which peaked at number three on the *Billboard 200*. The album was supported by the single "Unforgettable", featuring Swae Lee, which became Montana's first song as lead artist to reach the top 10 on the U.S. *Billboard* Hot 100.

## Early life

Karim Kharbouch (كريم خربوش *Karīm Kharbūš)* was born on November 9, 1984 in Rabat, Morocco. He grew up at the family estate outside Casablanca where he lived for the first 13 years of his life. Growing up, he was consumed with soccer and rap, describing them as his two favorite childhood hobbies, before getting into basketball in his later teens.

In 1996, at the age of 13, Kharbouch left Morocco with his parents and younger brother for New York City, where they settled in the South Bronx. Kharbouch spoke only his native languages Arabic and French when he first arrived, and learnt English in the streets and in the Bronx high schools of Lehman and Roosevelt. After struggling for two years, his father decided they would move back to Casablanca, when his mother opted to stay back with their children citing lack of opportunities back home. His mother was pregnant with his youngest brother at the time, who was born in the United States shortly after his father departed for Morocco. With three children, his mother was dependent on welfare for financial support. Kharbouch eventually found himself the primary breadwinner for the family.

## Official Account

* French Montana on Twitter
* French Montana on Facebook
* French Montana on Instagram
* French Montana on Insstar.com
* French Montana on Instagweb.com
* French Montana on Buzzcent.com
* French Montana on Insstars.com
* French Montana on Photostags.com
Mika

**Michael Varosyan** (Armenian: Միքայել Վարոսյան), better known as simply **Mika** (Armenian: Միկա), is an Armenian child singer who represented Armenia at the Junior Europa Song Contest 1. Mika started his music career at the age of six, after studying in the art. Varosyan has taken part in a variety of international music festivals, including the Armenian national selection competition "New wave" in 2012, and in 2013 he took part in "Golden Sparkles", a festival held in Varna.
Mozgi

**Mozgi** is an Ukrainian band from Ukraine. They represent Ukraine at the seventh edition of the Europa Song Contest, held in Akranes, Iceland with the song "Amor" featuring an Ukrainian-Bolivian singer Michelle Andrade.

### About The Band

According to the group's self-determination, their music combines "western bits with oriental motives," as well as an electric house with hip-hop . In September 2014 , the debut clip "Ayabo" was presented. In August 2015 , the band presented its debut album, Electroshock. The logo of the group is based on the logo of the label "MOZGI Entertainment". The group's members are in black dress.
Iceland in the Junior Europa Song Contest

**Iceland** debuted in the first edition of Junior Europa Song Contest and has participated in every edition since then. The Icelandic broadcaster, RÚV, has been in charge for the country's participation since the first edition.

### Contestants & Results

Table key
     *Winner*
     *Second place*
     *Third place*
     *Last place*
     *Did not compete or was disqualified*

 #02 |  Istanbul
Kamil Bednarek

**Kamil Bednarek** (born 10 May 1991 in Brzeg) is a Polish reggae and dancehall vocalist, songwriter, composer and musician. He is best known as the runner-up in the third series of Mam talent!.

From 2008 to 2012, Bednarek was the lead singer of Star Guard Muffin, and with the band he released a studio album *Szanuj* (2010), which peaked at no. 1 in Poland, as well as two EPs. Since 2012, he's been the lead vocalist of a band named Bednarek, which released a number-one album *Jestem...* in November 2012.

## History

### Star Guard Muffin and breakthrough (2008–2011)

Kamil Bednarek founded Star Guard Muffin with his friends in 2008. The band's debut concert was as a support for a Polish raggamuffin band EastWest Rockers. A year later Star Guard Muffin self-released a debut EP *Ziemia Obiecana* (*Promised Land*).

In 2010, Bednarek participated in the third series of Mam talent!, the Polish version of the Got Talent series. At the casting he performed a song "I" by Kurt Nilsen and impressed the judges. In the semi-final he sang Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven" and got to the final, where he placed 2nd after singing "Is This Love" by Bob Marley.

Around the same time, on 19 November 2010, Star Guard Muffin released its debut full-length album *Szanuj*. On the wave of Kamil's popularity, the album peaked at no. 1 on the Polish sales chart OLiS.

In April 2011, the band went to Jamaica. They recorded an EP titled *Jamaican Trip* in the Tuff Gong studio in Kingston. The record features guest appearances by Dean Fraser, Earl "Chinna" Smith, Capleton, The Tamlins, musicians from Shaggy's band and others.

### Bednarek (2012–present)

At the beginning of 2012, Kamil Bednarek took part in the second season of the TV show *Bitwa na głosy*, broadcast by TVP 2. The group of 16 vocalists from Brzeg, which was coached by him, won the show.

In February 2012 it was announced that bassist Kuba Wojciechowski decided to leave Star Guard Muffin and the band was suspended. Kamil Bednarek decided to continue playing with keyboardist Radosław Szyszkowski and drummer Maciej Pilarz under the band name Bednarek, and the line-up was completed by guitarist Piotr Bielawski and bassist Piotr Stanclik. The band's studio album *Jestem...*, released on 28 November 2012, debuted at no. 1 at OLiS chart and was certified platinum.
Muzikalen Festival na Bŭlgariya 1

The first Muzikalen festival na Bŭlgariya was held in Sofia. 8 songs entered the competition to get a ticket for ESC #5.

## Format

8 songs will compete letting only one winner.

### **Shows**

#### **Semi-final 1**

The first semi-final took place on 12 April 2018 where four competing acts presented their entries. The top two entries voted upon solely by public televoting proceeded to the final. "Go Away" performed by Nana ft. Vessy, "Chestito" performed by Tsvetelina Yaneva were the qualifiers.

The show also featured guest performances by Poli Genova and Dara performed the "Rodena Takava".

#### **Semi-final 2**

The second semi-final took place on 12 April where four competing acts presented their entries. The top two entries voted upon solely by public televoting proceeded to the final. "Zoopark" performed Anelia, "Po Takiva Si Padam" performed by Emilia & Emrah were the qualifiers.

The show also featured guest performance by Dara and 2 Europa Song Contest entrat Galena.

#### **Final**

 1
 2
 3

## See also

* Muzikalen festival na Bŭlgariya
* Bulgaria
* Europa Song Contest 5
Josephine

* Germany
* Lebanon
* Singer

**Josephine Jessica Wendel** (born in Athens, Greece on 22 August 1990), professionally known as **Josephine**, is a Greek singer of German and Lebanese descent. She is best known for her participation in the Europa Song Contest with the song "Magia" in the eighth edition. She has also participated in the show Your Face Sounds Familiar and has collaborated with many names in the Greek music industry such as Katie Garbi, Otherview, REC, etc.

### Early life

Born on 22 August 1990 in Athens by a Lebanese mother and a German father. She spent the first years of her life in America and then lived for a while in Germany. When they settled in Greece, she attended a Greek-American school. She has two younger brothers and sisters from her parents' next marriages. After school, he studied Marketing - Managment at Deree College and at the same time uploaded amateur videos to Facebook where he sang pieces of well - known artists.

## Career

### 2013-2014: The beginning of his career and Eurovision

While still a student, she met at one event the manager and executive of Panik Records, George Arsenakos, and after a while they started their collaboration. In spring 2013, she released her first song, "For Another Time" in collaboration with rapper OGE. The song has been a great success and in the same year, two more songs are released, "Back Against The Twilight" with Unique and "All Changing" with Snik.

In 2014, he is nominated for Greece to Eurovision, with the song "Dancing Night" in verses Mark Angelo but eventually came second to the Greek final. He then releases the tracks "Love Road" and "Turn Of The Lights", and collaborates with DJ Pitsi, Dj Kass and OGE (for the second time).

### 2015-present: Europa Song Contest, Your Face Sounds Familiar, new collaborations,

In 2015, the songs "Coming Soon" and "You And Me" are released this time as a solo artist, while he starts appearing in the Apotheke nightclub with Katie Garbi.

Then, in 2016, she participates in the ANT1 show, Your Face Sounds Familiar, and appears on MadWalk 2016 with OtherView and Maria Corinthios, interpreting Meghan Trainor's "All About The Bass" song. Still, two songs are released in the year. "Summer Moments" with REC and "The Fairy Tale" with The Gatsbies.

2017 begins live shows at BOX Athens with OtherView and Melisses. In March, she released her new song, entitled "Cocktail," and shortly after, she starred in MadWalk with Konney Metaxa performing their new song "Amaxi".
In November of the same year, the song "Two Drops of Water" is released in lyrics by OtherView. The video was shot in Los Angeles.

In the 2017-18 season they appeared at Fantasia Live with OtherView and in the summer of 2018 he made some appearances in Thessaloniki along with Koni Metaxa and Lefteris Pantazis. On July 16th of the same year, she released the video clip of "Maya".

On 18 August 2018 the Greek broadcaster ERT choose her internally to represent Greece in the eighth edition of the Europa Song Contest held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina with the song "Magia".
Le Deva

* Pop
* New Music International
* dischi Dei Sognatori
* Greta Manuzi
* Verdiana Zangaro
* Roberta Pompa
* Laura Bono

**Le** **Deva** is an Italian female music group formed and active since 2016. It is a quartet composed by Verdiana Zangaro, Greta Manuzi, Roberta Pompa and Laura Bono, who decided in 2017 to officially join under the name of Le Deva.

## The Name

In an interview with Radio Italia the four artists declared that the group's name is inspired by the Deva, the nature spirits belonging to the mythology of different cultures; the letter D is also connected to the word woman, followed by the name of the first woman created by God, and the four letters that make up the name refer to the number of members of the band.

## Biography

The musical project was born from the union of four girls with different professional experiences: Simonetta Spiri, Verdiana Zangaro, Roberta Pompa and Greta Manuzi. The components are linked by the common participation in talent-shows. Greta Manuzi and Verdiana Zangaro have in fact participated in the twelfth edition of the talent-show Friends, ranking second and fourth respectively; Simonetta Spiri participated in the seventh edition of Amici while Roberta Pompa at the seventh edition of X Factor.

The quartet, not yet called Le Deva, publishes its first song, L'amore deserves, on April 1, 2016, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Gay Help Line, contact center antiomophobia and antitransphobia. On the 1st of October the song " L'origine" is published. In February 2017 Simonetta Spiri left the group to devote herself to her solo career, leaving her post to singer Laura Bono.

After having decided to officially join under the name of Le Deva, they publish on May 5, 2017 the song Another idea, first single officer named Le Deva, written by Antonio Maggio, Zibba, Verdiana Zangaro and Marco Rettani.

On 6 October 2017 the group publishes the single Simply you and me . On October 20 of the same year, their first studio album 4 was released, which debuted in fourth place in the album ranking by FIMI . The title of the album refers to the number of artists, but also to the four elements of nature, namely fire, water, earth and air. The album contains, besides two artistic collaborations, also the songs L'amore merita and L'origine, recorded with Laura Bono.

On 12 January 2018 the third single from the album 4 is published , thanks to you . On 18 May of the same year the new single is published, not included in the debut album, entitled Summer all year . The authors include the names of Stefano Paviani and Marco Rettani.

## Discography

* **2016** - "L'amore merita" quartet as individual artists and not in the name of Le Deva
* **2016** - "L'origine" as individual artists and not in the name of Le Deva
* **2017** - "Un'altra idea"
* **2017** - "Semplicemente io e te"
* **2018** - "Grazie a te"
* **2018** - "L'estate tutto l'anno"
Holy Sister

Elite Shooter unit trained to fight anywhere. Has a fast attack rate and can suppress Attacker units!

## Description

The Holy Sister is the eighth Shooter unit you can train in the Armed Forces. This is a short-ranged, offensive unit that can be produced once you upgrade Armed Forces to level 22.

## Abilities

### **Strafe**

New equipment reloads the guns itself and has high rate to combo up to 3 times.

#### **AP Bullets**

Increases damage to enemy (except for near-hit students) and Mobile Team.

### **Explosive Rounds**

After hitting the target, bullet explodes, causing a lot of extra damage.

### **Deadly Strike**

Increases the chance of causing fatal injuries.
List of Europa Song Contest winners

Seven songs have won the Europa Song Contest, a competition organized by members of the European Broadcasting Union. The contest has been held once in about five months since its debut in January 2017. The contest's winner has been determined using a basic voting method; awarding points to countries by juries and/or televoters. The country awarded the most points is declared the winner.

There have been eight contests, with Iceland being the only country to win the event two times while. The other five countries have won once. Germany won the first contest, held in Bulgaria. Apart from Germany is the only country to win at its debut.

The winners of the contest have mostly been female solo performers apart from the winners of the fourth, five and sexth editions.

Oonagh's "Aulë und Yavanna" became the first winning song to be entirely in a language other than English, followed by Eleni Foureira's "Mono Gia Sena which was sung in Greek, The Hardkiss's "Antarctica" which was sung in Ukrainian, Maya Berović's "Nisam Normalna" which was sung in Bosnian and Lola Indigo's "Ya No Quiero Ná" which was sung in Spanish.

## See also

* List of countries in the Europa Song Contest
* List of host cities of the Europa Song Contest
* List of languages in the Europa Song Contest
* List of Europa Song Contest presenters
Z-Girls 2

**Z-Girls 2** is the 2nd game in the series.

Blue Ultra Game limited last updated 17 July 2020.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.starring.zgirls2&hl=en\_CA&gl=US

It is suptitled "Last One" and has very different gameplay from the original where there is more emphasis on solo survival and building similar to Z-Shelter Wasteland Survival.
Jannine Weigel

* Singer
* actress
* model

**Jannine Parawie Weigel** (ญานนีน ภารวี ไวเกล; born 30 July 2000), also known by the Thai nickname **Ploychompoo** (พลอยชมพู), is a German–Thai singer, actress, and model.

## Life

Jannine was born on 30 July 2000 in Steinfurt, Germany, to a German father and a Thai mother. Her first name, Jannine (ญานนีน), was from Hebrew, meaning "Yahweh is gracious". Her middle name, Parawie, means "sunbeam" in Thai. Her Thai nickname, Ploychompoo, means "pink sapphire".

Jannine has three elder brothers, born 1986, 1988, and 1990, respectively. She lived in Steinfurt until her tenth year of age and moved to Bangkok, Thailand, in July 2010.

Jannine attended primary schools in Germany until Grade 4 as she moved to Bangkok. In Thailand, she was given homeschooling until Grade 6. She continued her education through distance learning until Grade 9, which she completed in 2014. By way of advanced placement, she now undertakes a pre-degree course at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, where she majors in English.

Jannine has an excellent command of Central Thai, English, and German. She is also studying Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese.

## Career

Jannine started working as a model after moving to Bangkok in 2010. The next year, she turned her attention to singing. Following three months of training, she entered a national televised singing contest for children, called *Singing Kids*, and won third place. From there, she became an artist trainee at GMM Grammy in October 2012 before becoming a full artist under it.

In 2012, during her trainee period, she appeared in the music video of Getsunova's "Klai Khae Nai Khue Klai" (ไกลแค่ไหนคือใกล้; "How Much Further Is It Till I Could Be Near You?"), which brought her to fame. In 2013, she started her YouTube channel where she publishes, amongst other things, her covers of popular songs. Many of the covers went viral and gained many million views.

In 2015, Jannine released her first single, "Chak Din Chak Ngo", followed by a number of OST songs. In the same year, she was given the main roles in the television series *Banlang Mek* and the film *Senior*. In 2016, she issued her second single, "Away".

## Discography

### EPs

* Released: September 17, 2015
* Label: independent
* Formats: CD, digital download
2. Still Your Girl
3. Pluto
4. Shotgun
 **Deep End** | * Language: English
* Released: July 6, 2017
* Label: independent
* Formats: CD, digital download
2. Heart Stop
 "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region.

### OST

 "Thoe Doen Khao Ma"  เธอเดินเข้ามา ("You Walked In")
 2018
 "Soul"  (วิญญาณที่หลุดลอย)

## Filmography

### Television series

 2016
 *Love Songs, Love Series* | Khon Mai Champen  คนไม่จำเป็น ("Unnecessary One")
 *When I Was 16* |  | Dalatdao  ดาลัดดาว

### Films

 *Senior*  รุ่นพี่
 2018
Natalia Podolskaya

**Natalia Podolskaya** (**Natalla Padolskaja**, Belarusian: *Натальля Падольская*, Russian: *Наталья Подольская*, born May 20, 1982) is a Belarusian singer who performed for Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest on May 21, 2005 and was ranked No. 15. In 2008, she became a Russian citizen.

## Early years

Natalia was born in 1982 in Mogilev, Belarus. At the age of nine she studied piano at music school and started singing at the age of nine in the *Studio W* group of the Mogilev Music and Choreography School. She went on tour in Belgium, Germany and Poland. Still a teenager she won grand prix at the music festivals "Zornaja rostan" (Belarus), "Mahutny Boza" (Belarus), "Goldenfest" (Poland).

Between 1999 and 2004, she studied law at a small private law school called Belarusian Law Institute and continued to gain experience as a solo performer. Natalia regularly took part in music shows on Belarusian radio and television and, in 2002/2003, she was finalist in the national Belarus TV festival ‘On the Crosses of Europe’. In 2002, Natalia moved to Moscow and joined the Moscow Institute of the Modern Art.

Natalia became well known in 2002 after her performance at the music festival "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk". The same year in Prague, 16 members of ‘Universetalent Prague 2002’ International Jury marked her performance as very high: Natalia Podolskaya won the ‘Best Song’ and ‘Best Singer’ categories.

## Solo career

### 2003-2005

In early 2003, Rayan Lobsher and Michael Jay wrote *Unstoppable* especially for Natalia and invited her to take part in the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest as the UK representative. However, Podolskaya was determined to sing only for her home country Belarus.

In 2004, Natalia Podolskaya got through the auditions and became a participant of Star Factory-5 in which she was taught by the best singing, dancing and acting teachers in Russia. It was here that Natalia met Victor Drobysh, the famous songwriter and producer. With his help she recorded her first album *Pozdno* ('Поздно', *Late*, 2004), which was released in December 2004 and was a success.

Turned down by Belarusians, Natallia decided to come to Eurovision as a representative of Russia. In February 2005, the Russian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest took place. TV viewers chose a winner by televoting. Natalia was chosen to represent Russia with her song *Nobody Hurt No One* at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 in Kiev, Ukraine.
John Lundvik

**John Hassim Lundvik** (born 27 January 1983) is a Swedish singer, songwriter, and former sprinter. He was part of the athletic team for IFK Växjö. Engaging later in a musical career, he competed in Melodifestivalen 2018 with the song "My Turn", finishing third in the final.

## Career

Lundvik first began his career as an athlete, and was a member of IFK Växjö. He later began pursuing a music career in 2010, composing the song "When You Tell the World You're Mine" for the wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling. Lundvik went on to compose music for musicians such as Anton Ewald, Isac Elliot, and Sanna Nielsen, in addition to composing music for the film *Easy Money*.

In 2016, Lundvik took part in *Allsång på Skansen*, performing a duet with Lill Lindfors. He took part in Melodifestivalen 2018 with the song "My Turn", in a bid to represent Sweden in Eurovision Song Contest 2018. He qualified from the first semi-final directly to the finals, and finished third overall.
Lilit Hovhannisyan

**Lilit Hovhannisyan** (Լիլիթ Հովհաննիսյան, born 7 December 1987 in Yerevan, Armenia), is an Armenian pop singer.

## Personal life

Lilit married Armenian songwriter and record producer Vahram Petrosyan on June 29, 2011.

## Discography

### Singles

* "Voch-Voch" (2011)
* "Nran" (2011)
* "Mayrik" (2011)
* "Im Srtin Asa" (2012)
* "Too-Too-Too" (2012)
* "Te Aghjik Lineir" (2012)
* "Es Em Horinel" (2012)
* "Qez Mi Or Togheci" (2013)
* "Requiem" (2013)
* "Gnchu" (2013)
* "Eli Lilit" (2013)
* "Elegia" (2013)
* "Qez Khabel Em" (2014)
* "Armenian Girl" (2014)
* "Indz Chspanes" (2014)
* "De El Mi" (2014)
* "Im tiknikn es" (2015)
* "Mexican" (2015) (Armenian, Spanish)
* "Im Ser,Atum Em Qez" (2015)
* "Im bajin sere" (2016)
* "HETDIMO" (2016)
* "Hin Chanaparhov" (2016)

## Awards and achievements

Here is chronologically the awards Lilit Hovhannisyan has received so far.

* 2008: *The Grand Prize* winner of Yntsa contest.
* 2008: *The Revelation of the Year* in the Armenian National Music Awards.
* 2009: The song "Nran" (by Lilit) came to be known as *The Most Downloaded Song*.
* 2009: *The Best Singer of the Year* in the Armenian National Music Awards.
* 2009: *The Best Soundtrack of the Year* (Spanvac Aghavni/Սպանված Աղավնի) in the Armenian National Music Awards.
* 2010: *The Most Desirable Armenians* prize.
* 2011: *The Best Duet of the Year* in the website of Hayfanat.
* 2011: *The Best Duet of the Year* (inchu em qez sirum) featuring Mihram Tsarukyan according to Dar 21 TV Music Awards.
* 2012: *The Best Video of the Year* (Te axchik lineir/Թե աղջիկ լինեիր) according to Dar 21 TV Music Awards.
* 2012: *The Best Female-singer of the Year* according to Dar 21 TV Music Awards.
* 2012: *The Most-discussed and popular female-singer of the Year* according to Argamblog.
* 2012: *The best video of April* (Too-Too-Too/Թու,Թու,Թու) according to Armenia Public TV "First Channel".
* 2012: *The best video of September* (Te axjik lineir/Թե աղջիկ լինեիր) according to Armenia Public TV "First Channel".
* 2012: *The best video of December* (Ես եմ հորինել /Es em horinel) according to Armenia Public TV "First Channel".
* 2013: *The 2013 Best Video* (Es em Horinel) in the Armenian Pulse Music Awards".
* 2013: *The 2013 Best Song* (Es em Horinel) in the Armenian Pulse Music Awards".
* 2013 – The Best Female Singer of the year according to Armenia Music Awards

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Iceland in the Europa Song Contest 3

Iceland took part in the third edition of the Europa Song Contest which was hosted by the country in Malmö. The country was represented by Thorsteinn Einarsson with the song "Aurora". The entry was be selected via the broadcaster of the country, RÚV. The song got the 24th place in the grand final with 41 points.

## Before ESC

It was announced that the entrant would be revealed, together with his song, on July 27.

### Internal Selection

On April 27 2017, the Icelandic entrant was selected. It was chosen that Thorsteinn Einarsson would represent Iceland with his single "Aurora".

## At ESC

At the allocation draw, Iceland was drawn to compete in the second semi-final. At the running order draw in the second semi final, Iceland was drawn to perform sixth, following Greece and proceding Belarus.

Both the semi-finals and the final were broadcast by RÚV. George was the final and semi-finals television commentators respectively. Greta Salóme was the spokesperson that announced the Icelandic voting in the final.

### **Voting**

#### **Points awarded to Iceland**

Points awarded to Iceland (Semi-final 2)
* Liechtenstein
* Spain
* Lithuania
* Ukraine
 5 points
 * Morocco
* Norway

Points awarded to Iceland (Final)
* Luxembourg
* Greece
* Italy
* Norway
* Israel
* Switzerland

**Points awarded by Iceland**

#### See also

* Iceland in the Europa Song Contest
* Europa Song Contest 3
Angelika Dusk

**Angelika Dusk** is a singer-songwriter who works on a regular basis with Red Triangle Productions (One Direction, Pixie Lott, Olly Murs, Little Mix) and Ross Cullum (Tori Amos, Rufus Wainright, Tears for Fears, Roxy Music, Enya).

## Career

She studied classical music at Brown University in the States before going on to the London Centre of Contemporary Music in London where she developed her ability to write up-tempo pop songs, soft emotive ballads and darker songs, all of which weave a world of symbolism that reflect her own experiences.

Though she first released her music only five months ago, Angelika has played at major festivals in Greece opening the lineup for Boy George and Simple Minds. She has been well received by Greek radio and press and has given unplugged gigs on most major Greek radio stations, interviews on MTV, Mad TV – Greece’s biggest music television channel – and most important magazines, internet sites and newspapers.

“Telling Stories”, Angelika Dusk’s first EP, follows on from the success of her debut single “Love On Your Own Terms”. The songs on the EP have been produced by talented UK production team Red Triangle.
Ivi Adamou

* Singer
* songwriter
* actress
* philanthropist

**Ivi Adamou** (Ήβη Αδάμου, born 24 November 1993) is a Cypriot singer. She was born and raised in Paralimni, Cyprus and currently resides in Alexandroupoli, Greece. Adamou rose to recognition in Greece and Cyprus following her participation in the second season of the Greek version of *The X Factor*, where she was under the mentorship of Giorgos Theofanous. Right after her elimination from the X Factor, Adamou secured a recording contract with Sony Music Greece. She gained further recognition from her participation in the Europa Song Contest 7, where she represented Cyprus with the song "Pame Ke Mi Rotas".

Her debut extended play *Kalokairi Stin Kardia* (2010) was released shortly after her contract with Sony. The same year, she collaborated with the Spiros Lambrou Choir and released the holiday extended play *Christougenna Me Tin Ivi Adamou* (2010) and was released as *Christmas with Ivi Adamou* abroad. Her debut studio album *San Ena Oniro* (2011) was released in July 2011 and included the hit singles "Krata Ta Matia Sou Klista", "Kano Mia Efhi" and "Voltes St Asteria". A new album, *Eho Ourano*, was scheduled to be released in summer of 2013 but its release was cancelled as Sony Music Greece had closed. Apart from singles for her own discography, Adamou has released songs for movies such as *Barbie in A Mermaid Tale* and *Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale*. In 2015, she starred in the original musical *Barbarella: the 80's Musical*.

Influenced by Beyoncé, Whitney Houston, Elena Paparizou, Adamou was often described as the "Pop Queen" or the "Teen Idol" in Greece and was since her participation in The X Factor called as the "Next Big Thing". Her first extended play was certified gold for selling over 60,000 copies in Greece while the second holiday extended play was certified platinum for selling over 15,000 copies in Portugal. Since 2010, Adamou had several nominations in both the MAD Video Music Awards and the Madame Figaro Awards. She was named the best Cypriot female performer in 2010 and 2012. She was also awarded as the best singer in Cyprus in 2012 which was the first time that the award was given. Adamou has also participated in several charities such as "Everything I Can", the campaign for the prevention of cervical cancer, and she was also appointed as the Young Ambassador for the rights of the children by the HFC-UNCRC Policy Center.

### Europa Song Contest

On early May 2018, Adamou was rumoured to represent Cyprus in the 7th edition of the Europa Song Contest. On 21 June 2018, CyBC officially announced that Adamou was internally selected to represent the country in the contest with the song "Pame Ke Mi Rotas".
Grete Paia

**Grete Paia** (born 27 August 1995) is an Estonian singer and songwriter. She is best known internationally for competing in *Eesti Laul 2013* and later in *Eesti Laul 2016*.

## Early life

Grete Paia was born on 27 August 1995 in Kuressaare, Estonia on the island of Saaremaa. She attended Kuressaare Gymnasium (Kuressaare Gümnaasium).

## Career

On 13 December 2012, Paia was announced as one of the twenty finalists for Eesti Laul 2013 with her Estonian language song "Päästke noored hinged" (Save the souls of the young). She competed in the first semi-final, held on 16 February 2013 and performed in the seventh position. It was revealed that she was not one of the jury's five qualifiers, placing sixth out of ten, but placed first in the public vote and was able to advance to the final, ending in third place.

In the final, held on 2 March 2013, Paia performed in the final position out of ten. She placed fifth with the jury and first with the public and was able to advance to the superfinal, being one of the top two. In the superfinal, she competed against Birgit Õigemeel and her song "Et uus saaks alguse". She lost in the public vote-only superfinal, and placed second behind the winner, Õigemeel.

On 5 November 2015, it was announced that Paia would return to *Eesti Laul* with a song called "Stories Untold". She finished 7th place in the final.
Jüri Pootsmann

**Jüri Pootsmann** (born 1 July 1994), is an Estonian singer. He represented Estonia in the Europa Song Contest 4 with the song "Silmades" and he took the TBD place in the grand final.

## Career

### 2015: *Eesti otsib superstaari*

On February 2015, Pootsmann took part in the sixth season of *Eesti otsib superstaari*, an Estonian reality-competition gameshow airing on TV3. He won the show on 31 May 2015 when his debut single "Torm" was released. It peaked at number seven in the Estonian Airplay Chart. On 15 November 2015 he released the single "Aga Siis", peaking at number one in the Estonian Airplay Chart. On 20 November 2015, he released his debut self-titled extended play.

### Europa Song Contest

During the Europa Song Contest, Estonia was drawn to compete TBD. Pootsmann placed TBD, Estonia`s TBD result to date at the contes.

## Personal life

Jüri Pootsmann, like most school children in Estonia, sang in a school choir but he was never a soloist. As a young child, the tone of Jüri`s voice was so high that he had to sing in a choir together with girls, not boys. Ironically, his current tone is that of a baritone.
He discovered his vocal capabilities only as an exchange student in Denmark where he spent a year. Thus he is fluent in Danish. In his spare time, he likes to walk alone in nature, especially in Estonian forests.

## Discography

### Albums

* Label: Universal Music Group
* Format: Digital download

### Extended plays

* Label: Universal Music Group
* Format: Digital download, CD

### Singles

#### As lead artist

 "Torm"
 "Play"
 "Täna"
 "Silmades"

#### As featured artist

 "I Remember U"(Cartoon featuring Jüri Pootsmann) | 2016
Melodifestivalen

**Melodifestivalen** ("The Melody Festival") is an annual music competition organised by the Swedish broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT). It determines the country's representative for the Europa Song Contest, and has been organized for every edition to date.

## Winners

Many Swedish Europa representatives have come from Melodifestivalen to date, except Måns Zelmerlöw in the 1st edition.

 #02 | Mariette | "A Million Years"
 #031 | Julia Kedhammar | "Everywhere"

1 The song has not been chosen through Fantasifestivalen 01.
Mgzavrebi

* Pop
* Folk
* Classical
* Gigi Dedalamazishvili
* Lasha Dokhnadze
* Misha Megrelishvili
* Dato Gogelia
* Bezho Amiranashvili
* Guga Kublashvili
* Dato Ugrekhelidze

**Mgzavrebi** (Georgian: მგზავრები) is a Georgian-Russian pop band, formed in 2006.

## Biography

### 2006-present

The band is well-known for their individual music style permeated with emotion, improvisation and is also filled with elements of folk as well as classical music. Mgzavrebi was established by Gigi Dedalamazishvili and its initial staff included only three musicians. During these years the band has increased up to 15 members by now. The band released its first album "Me Movigone" *("I made it up")* in 2008 and during this time became a prize-winner of many contests in Georgia as well as abroad. Mgzavrebi is well-known for their individual music style permeated with emotion, improvisation and is also filled with elements of folk as well as classical music also is the embodiment of modern rhythms and authentic one of the most musical countries in the world.

### 2018-Europa Song Contest

The Georgian broadcaster choose them internally to represent Georgia in the ninth edition of the Europa Song Contest. The Song that Mgzavrebi perform choosed by the Sakartvelo Gadatsqvets 9, Georgian national selection.

## See also

* Georgia in the Europa Song Contest
* Georgia in the Europa Song Contest 9

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KeshYOU

**KeshYou**, stylized as **KeshYOU** (cyrillic **КешYOU**) is a popular Kazakh girl group, formed in 2006. During it's period, the members have changed, the current 4 members are Balzhan Bidash, Nazym Abildina, Elizat Berikova, Sara Amangeldi. KeshYOU participated for Kazakhstan in the Europa Song Contest 2 and in the Europa Song Contest 6.

## See also

* Kazakhstan
* "Ruchti Aru"
* "Nege?"
* Europa Song Contest 2
* Europa Song Contest 6
Montenegro

**Montenegro** debuted in the fourth edition of Europa Song Contest.

## Contestants & Results

Table key
     *Winner*
     *Second place*
     *Third place*
     *Last place*
     *Automatically qualified to the final*
     *Did not qualify for the final*
     *Did not compete or was disqualified*
     *Did not qualify from the heats*
Greece in the Europa Song Contest 1

Greece took part in the first edition of the Europa Song Contest which was hosted by the country in Sofia. The country was represented by Tamta with the song "Unloved". The entry was be selected via the broadcaster of the country, ERT. The song got the 1st place in the second semi-final with 115 points and in the final the 2nd place with 123 points.

## Before ESC

On April 23, ERT announced that the country planned a national selection, for their next act, letting no clue about who could be the Greek participant.

## The Greek Decision 1

The songs and the paritcipants were announed from 28 until 29 April, while the National Final took place on the 29th of April as well. The Broadcaster didn't gave the results

## At ESC

At the allocation draw, Greece was drawn to perform in the sixth place of the second semi-final and in the final Greece was drawn to perform in the seventeenth place.

Both the semi-finals and the final were broadcast by ERT. Maria Kozakou was the final and semi-finals television commentators respectively. Giorgos Kapoutzidis was the spokesperson that announced the Greek voting in the final.

### **Voting**

#### **Points awarded to Greece**

Points awarded to Greece (Semi-final 2)
* Cyprus
* Faroe
* France
* Sweden
* Israel
* Russia
 5 points

Points awarded to Greece (Final)
* Cyprus
* Estonia
* Sweden
* UK
* Germany
* Moldova
* Serbia
 * Faroe
* Ireland
* Israel
* Monaco
* Netherlands

## See also

* Greece in the Europa Song Contest
* Europa Song Contest 1
Me Oplo Tin Foni Sou

* Kostantinos Pantzis
* OGE
* Demy

"**Me Oplo Tin Foni Sou**" (Greek: Με Όπλο την Φωνή σου; English: Gun is your Voice) is a song by Cypriot singer Charis Savva featuring a Greek singer Demy featuring a Greek singer OGE. It was chosen to represent Cyprus in the Europa Song Contest 1 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Margaret

**Małgorzata Jamroży** (born 30 June 1991), known by her stage name **Margaret**, is a Polish singer-songwriter with a degree in fashion design. She began her musical career in 2009 as the vocalist for the band oNieboLepiej. Later she was the vocalist for the Gosia Jamroży Project, appeared in a musical, recorded songs for TV commercials, and became a fashion blogger.
Margaret's 2013 debut single, "Thank You Very Much", was included on *All I Need* (her first EP). The song charted in the top fifty in Austria, Germany and Italy. Her debut studio album, *Add the Blonde*, was released in 2014. It peaked at number eight in Poland, and was certified platinum by the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry (ZPAV). The album contained three singles ("Wasted", "Start a Fire" and "Heartbeat") which reached number six, ten and eleven, respectively, in Poland. Its 2016 re-release produced "Cool Me Down", the singer's first Polish top-five single. The song, which charted in the top thirty in Romania and the top forty in Sweden, was certified double platinum in Poland and gold in Sweden. In 2015 Margaret recorded *Just the Two of Us*, a jazz album with Matt Dusk which was certified platinum by ZPAV. Her third studio album, *Monkey Business*, was released in 2017.

### Europa Song Contest

Poland announce on 14 June 2017 that Margaret will represent Poland in the Europa Song Contest 3 in Malmö, Sweden. The Polish Broadcaster announce that Margaret will perform the song "What You Do". In the grand final Poland get the 7th place with 114 points. In the fifth edition Polish Broadcaster announce that the country will represented by Margaret for the second time with the song "In My Cabana". In the grand final Poland get the 3rd place with 306 points.
Greta Salóme

* Singer
* songwriter
* violinist
* Vocals
* violin
* Hands Up Music
* Jónsi

**Greta Salóme Stefánsdóttir** (born 11 November 1986), known outside Iceland simply as **Greta Salóme,** is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, and violinist in the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra. She represented Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan, in a duet with singer Jónsi with the song "Never Forget". They qualified from the first semi-final into the Eurovision final and eventually finished in 20th place with 46 points. She represented Iceland again, this time as a soloist, in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song "Hear Them Calling", where she failed to qualify.

## Career

Greta released her first album, titled *In the Silence*, on 16 November 2012. The album contains her Eurovision song "Never Forget", in both the English and the Icelandic version ("Mundu Eftir Mér"). In August 2012 she released *Everything Around Me*. It was announced that Greta was among the list of participants in Iceland's selection for Eurovision 2016 with the song "Raddirnar". She qualified from the first semi-final to participate in the final of the selection process. Her song was changed to English for the final, under the title "Hear Them Calling"; she won the national final. She represented Iceland performing the song in the first semi-final of Eurovision on 10 May 2016, but failed to qualify to the final, placing fourteenth with 51 points. Recently, she had been finishing what will be her second studio album featuring her most recent singles. She also wrote a candidate in UK Selection process for 2018 Eurovision but it didn't win the show.

## Discography

### Studio albums

* Label: Hands Up Music
* Format: Digital download, CD
Iceland in the Europa Song Contest 2

Iceland took part in the second edition of the Europa Song Contest which was hosted by the country in Oldenburg. The country was represented by Birgir with the song "Last For Long". The entry was be selected via the broadcaster of the country, RÚV. The song failed to qualify because got the 14th place in the semi-final with 55 points.

## Before ESC

It was announced that the entrant would be revealed, together with his song, on April 20.

### Internal Selection

On April 20 2017, the Iceland entrant was selected. It was chosen that Birgir would represent Iceland with his single "Last For Song".

## At ESC

At the allocation draw, Iceland was drawn to compete in the first semi-final. At the running order draw in the first semi final, Iceland was drawn to perform sevententh, following Czech Republic.

Both the semi-finals and the final were broadcast by RÚV. George was the final and semi-finals television commentators respectively. Kristbjörg Kjeld was the spokesperson that announced the Icelandic voting in the final.

### **Voting**

#### **Points awarded to Iceland**

Points awarded to Iceland (Semi-final 1)
* Lithuania
 5 points
* Bulgaria
* Poland
* UK

#### See also

* Iceland in the Europa Song Contest
* Europa Song Contest 2