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Tel Aviv
2019

Number of participants: 42

Venue: Expo Tel Aviv

Hosts: Bar Refaeli, Erez Tal, Assi Azar & Lucy Ayoub

OUR EUROSTORY EUROVISION SONG 2019: I DON’T SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE

We asked the awesome Koonian to write  a song for us! And… we dared him to fit ALL THIS YEAR’S EUROVISION SONG TITLES in the lyrics. Just like last year. So here it is – with this one we celebrate Eurovision 2019!

  • Eurostory Song
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Who wins the Eurostory Best Lyrics Award 2019? [poll!]

Onwards! Onwards! Every year the Eurovision Song Contest is professionalizing a bit more. And we try to give a little push as well, by  crowning the best lyrics – to the writers of which we hand (for the fourth year in a row) the Eurostory Best Lyrics Award. Last year’s… »

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  • Eurostory Best Lyrics Award
  • News
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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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Italy wins Eurostory Best Lyrics Award

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… »

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  • Eurostory Best Lyrics Award
  • Tel Aviv 2019
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France: Bilal Hassani’s Kingdom

The best lines of his debut album

He is nineteen years old (born on the day of the nines: 9-9-’99) and he is the French participant at Eurovision 2019. Bilal Hassani is his name, a boy of Moroccan-French descent, who got famous after taking part in The Voice Kids (where he sang Conchita Wurst’s winning Eurovision song… »

  • Album Review
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Lake Malawi: A universe of friends

Interview with the band from Czech Republic

Their names are Albert Černý, Jeroným Šubrt and Antonín Hrabal, and together they are the Czech band Lake Malawi. With their song Friend of a friend they participate in the Eurovision Song Contest of 2019. A little while ago, we got to talk to them about lyrics and about reading… »

  • Geen Categorie
  • Edward van de Vendel Edward van de Vendel

Bilal Hassani: Kingdom

The best lines of his debut album

He is nineteen years old (born on the day of the nines: 9-9-’99) and he is the French participant at Eurovision 2019. Bilal Hassani is his name, a boy of Moroccan-French descent, who got famous after taking part in The Voice Kids (where he sang Conchita Wurst’s winning Eurovision song… »

  • Album Review
  • Edward van de Vendel Edward van de Vendel

Abba: all the cover art but different

Maarten Vande Wiele published the graphic novel Abba looking for Frida in 2015. For the book presentation he made a small exhibition of the cover art for twenty of Abba’s singles, in his own interpretation. For all of those that were not present: Eurostory shows them below. Staring with Waterloo,… »

  • Comic
  • Maarten Vande Wiele Maarten Vande Wiele

Will you be a Eurovision history professor?

Sure – all the songs have been chosen, and sure, Duncan Laurence is prepping us Dutchies for a nice Eurovision edition (oh, we love all the other entries as well!), but THIS is the beginning of this year’s Eurostory season. And to mark our fourth year we present an illustration,… »

  • Comic
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Duncan Laurence’s ARCADE – a closer look

Duncan Laurence will be singing Arcade for The Netherlands in the grand arena of Eurovision 2019. What was it again that the Dutch representative Waylon said last year? ‘Participating in the Song Contest is the musical version of participating in the Olympic Games.’ One could argue that Waylon’s years of experience… »

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