Edward van de Vendel Editor / Author
Favourite Eurovision songs:
Morocco
in
The Hague 1980
Samira Bensaïd – Bitakat hob
(Abdel Ati Amenna/Malou Rouanne)
Netherlands
in
Malmö 2013
Anouk – Birds
(Tore Johansson/Martin Gjerstad/Anouk Teeuwe)
Italy
in
Malmö 1992
Mia Martini – Rapsodia
(Giuseppe Dati/Giancarlo Bigazzi)
Italy
in
Rotterdam 2020 (Cancelled)
Diodato – Fai rumore
(Antonio Diodato/Edwin Roberts)
Italy
in
Turin 2022
Mahmood & BLANCO – Brividi
(Mahmood/BLANCO/Michelangelo)
Written by Edward
Gjon’s Tears (stage name of Gjon Muharremaj, 1998) sings for Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 and is one of the favorites for the title. With Tout l’univers he wants to show everyone who is blown down by life how to get up again. We talked to him about the meaning of his song, about his starry eyes and … »
When Eurovision 2020 was cancelled, Jeangu Macrooy had to write a new song for this year’s Song Contest. It’s called Birth of a new age. What is the song about? What kind of song is it? That’s what we’ll be looking into in this article. Let’s start with two quotes: ‘Everything I write says something about where I am in life … »