Jelmer Soes Editor / Author
Favourite Eurovision songs:
Netherlands
in
Copenhagen 2014
Netherlands
The Common Linnets – Calm after the storm
(Ilse DeLange/J.B. Meijers/Rob Crosby/Matthew Crosby/Jake Etheridge)
Ukraine
in
Rotterdam 2021
Ukraine
Go_A – SHUM
(Taras Shevchenko/Kateryna Pavlenko/Ihor Didenchuk)
Latvia
in
Liverpool 2023
Latvia
Sudden Lights – Aijā
(Andrejs Reinis Zitmanis/Kārlis Matīss Zitmanis/Kārlis Vārtiņš/Mārtiņš Matīss Zemītis)
Germany
in
Millstreet 1993
Germany
Münchener Freiheit – Viel zu weit
(Stefan Zauner)
Italy
in
Rotterdam 2020 (Cancelled)
Italy
Diodato – Fai rumore
(Antonio Diodato/Edwin Roberts)
Written by Jelmer
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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. To cross the border, to fly to Ireland, to represent … »
