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Jelmer Soes

Jelmer Soes
Redacteur / Auteur

Favourite Song Contest songs:

Netherlands in Tel Aviv 2019
Duncan Laurence – Arcade
(Duncan Laurence/Joel Sjöö/Wouter Hardy)
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Netherlands in Copenhagen 2014
The Common Linnets – Calm after the storm
(Ilse DeLange/J.B. Meijers/Rob Crosby/Matthew Crosby/Jake Etheridge)
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France in Lisbon 2018
Madame Monsieur – Mercy
(Emilie Satt/Jean-Karl Lucas)
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Belgium in Vienna 2015
Loïc Nottet – Rhythm inside
(Loïc Nottet/Beverly Jo Scott)
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Finland in Copenhagen 2014
Softengine – Something better
(Topi Latukka/Henri Oskár)
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Written by Jelmer

Duncan Laurence: how it all began

Amsterdam, May 1, 2019, Het Zonnehuis

This is how it all began. That’s what we’ll say. Later, looking back. On Wednesday night, May 1, 2019 in Het Zonnehuis in the North of Amsterdam. Where, for the first time in his life, Duncan Laurence gave a concert. This is where it all began. Crossing the IJ on… »

  • Concert Report
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Blanche: uncut diamond from Brussels

Paradiso, Amsterdam, November 27th 2018

She came fourth at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. Afterwards City lights made its way to many European music charts and Blanche even won the European Border Breakers Award. Then it got silent, for more than a year and a half. Until late November 2018, when she kicked off her tour… »

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Ireland: A Tale of Two Boys

Two boys are leaving the pub. It’s cold outside, so one of them waits in the door opening to put on his scarf. They walk. It had been raining until a few minutes ago, the streets are glistening in the light of the lanterns, pubs and shop windows. It’s quite… »

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  • Lissabon 2018
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Our love in Semi-Final 2: Georgia

Something happened during Eurovision last year. Amidst all the fireworks, light shows, dancers and apotheoses, a little song from Portugal won. It gave us a message: bring back music. Georgia took that advice, and sent ethno-jazz formation Iriao with a plain task: go to Lisbon, and bring music. Salvador’s call… »

  • Lissabon 2018
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Cyprus: the queen of being underestimated

Every year it happens once or twice: everyone focuses on the highest ranked Eurovison entries in the bookmakers lists, almost blind-staring at just those favourites. Meanwhile, unnoticed and anonymous, one country slowly climbs up, step by step. First just a doubt, then just a song somewhere in the middle, then… »

  • Lissabon 2018
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Bulgaria: the resurrection of a woman

Tomorrow night, when the Bulgarian flag appears on the screen of many European citizens, five people will enter the stage. Four male, one female. Their song is dark and gloomy and pulls you into the pitch black of our universe. The song Bones will reach the finals on saturday and… »

  • Lissabon 2018
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Running for your life – to join Eurovision

The extraordinary story of Fazla from Sarajevo

What would you give to participate in the Eurovision Song contest? ‘Everything’, an artist would say, but what does that really mean, ‘everything’? Muhamed Fazlagic (Fazla) and his band must have had an idea, when they ran for their lives across an airplane strip near Sarajevo, that night in 1993…. »

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