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
Reasons There are many reasons to attend one of Mahmood’s concerts. Here is a list: – He finished second place at the Eurovision Song Contest, gave one hell of a performance, and his Soldi became the most-listened to Eurovision song on Spotify ever. – He is handsome (no really, check his Instagram). – As soon as you hear the rest of his repertoire, … »
To highlight the art of writing song lyrics, www.eurostory.nl hands out the Eurostory Best Lyrics Award – an award for the best song lyrics from this year’s Eurovision-songs. This year’s award is won by Italy: song writers Mahmood and Dardust, for the lyrics of their song Soldi. Who came second and third? Second was Portugal (Conan Osíris) for his song … »