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Eurovision Legends
Eurovision Legends is the podcast where Emil Löfström invites songwriters, artists and other important people from the world of the Eurovision Song Contest. How did the songs originate, what happened behind the scenes, who ought to have won the contest and what did the song demos sound like? This and much more...
Episodes
Eurovision LegendsAmi Aspelund
Legend: Ami AspelundSong: Fantasiaa (Finland 1983)The Finnish family Aspelund apparently contains more musical talent than some entire countries. Ami Aspelund…
Eurovision LegendsAnjeza Shahini
Legend: Anjeza ShahiniSong: The Image of You (Albania 2004)During the cold war, Albania was a closed society not totally different from North Korea today. But…
Eurovision LegendsSürpriz
Legend: SürprizSong: Reise nach Jerusalem (Israel 1999)In 1999 the German national final was won by Corinna May. Soon it was revealed that the song was already…
Eurovision LegendsHot Eyes
Legend: Hot EyesSongs: Det' lige det, Sku' du spørg' fra no'en, Ka' du se, hva' jeg sa? (Denmark 1984, 85, 88)Kirsten and Søren represented Denmark three times…
Eurovision LegendsDeen
Legend: DeenSong: In the disco (Bosnia and Herzegovina 2004)Bosnian television invited the artist Deen to sing all the songs in their preselection in 2004, but…
Eurovision LegendsPing Pong
Legend: Ping PongSong: Sameach (Israel 2000)Four youngsters with an open minded and peaceful message went balagan. Hear Roy Arad from the group Ping Pong tell…
Eurovision LegendsEsther Hart
Legend: Esther Hart Song: One More Night (Netherlands 2003)The dutch singer Esther Hart ended up in two preselections at the same time, one without even…
Eurovision LegendsOne More Time
Legend: One More TimeSong: Den vilda (Sweden 1996)The successful group One More Time, with several hit-songs under their belt, went to Oslo as frontrunners…
Eurovision LegendsLindsay Dracass
Legend: Lindsay DracassSong: No Dream Impossible ( United Kingdom 2001)In 2001 United Kingdom sent a young girl with braces, that couldn't handle the high note…
Eurovision LegendsCatCat
Legend: CatCatSong: Bye Bye Baby (Finland 1994)In 1994 two finnish sisters were predicted to have a good shot at winning, but ended up third last with their…
Eurovision LegendsPaul Oscar
It was 1997, and the Eurovision Song Contest tried out televoting for the first time, albeit on a small scale with just five countries. This made the largest…
Eurovision LegendsAlenka Gotar
Alenka Gotar is one of the most famous opera singers in Slovenia, and when the Croatian songwriter and guest on this podcast Andrej Babić approached her with a…
Eurovision LegendsMonica Aspelund
Finland had never done particularly well in the Eurovision, and many attributed this to the Finnish language, which was considered harsh and foreign. However…
Eurovision LegendsEdyta Gorniak
There are Eurovision debutes, impressive Eurovision debutes and then there is Poland in 1994. Sure, Switzerland won the very first Eurovision in 1956 and in…
Eurovision LegendsAndrej Babić
You may not have heard of the man before, but you are certainly well aware of the songs that he has written. Andrej Babić has competed in the Eurovision with…
Eurovision LegendsBelle & the Devotions
Emil gets to speak to Kit Rolfe, lead singer of the group Belle & the Devotions, who represented the United Kingdom in 1984 with the song "Love Games". Perhaps…
Eurovision LegendsFazla
From a war-torn Sarajevo a group of people fled to Millstreet, but some were left behind in the newly formed country of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Hear Muhamed…
Eurovision LegendsCharlotte Perrelli
Petra Frey requested, and Emil delivers. This episode features the queen, the diva, the winner, the legend, the hero, the superstar extraordinaire Charlotte…
Eurovision LegendsPetra Frey
Emil gains a new best friend when speaking to Petra Frey, the girl who was only 16 years old when she represented Austria back in 1994 with "Für den Frieden…
Eurovision LegendsSahlene
The Swedish singer and former child actor Anna Sahlene has graced the Eurovision stage at five occasions, for five different countries. Four times as a backing…
Eurovision LegendsAlex Panayi
Backup singer, solo artist, duet artist, vocal director, Alexandros Panayi has done it all when it comes to Eurovision, a show that he has followed and dreamed…
Eurovision LegendsPut
The year 1993 was very special, not only regarding the Eurovision but for the world in general and the Balkan region of Europe in particular. Yugoslavia was…
Eurovision LegendsIlanit
She was already a big star in several countries and was approached by Germany to compete for them, but felt that she'd rather compete for her own country…
Eurovision LegendsNuša Derenda
The contest in Copenhagen in 2001 is not looked back upon as one of the highlights of Eurovision history among fans of the contest. An oversized arena, a weird…
Eurovision LegendsBaccara
The Spanish duo Baccara were one of the biggest bands in the world in the late 1970's, and with hits like "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie" they set sales records that…
Eurovision LegendsKeiino
They started out as a odd combination of three very different singers, at first intended as a one-off for the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix 2019, but the…
Eurovision LegendsRalph Siegel
He has competed with more than 20 songs in the Eurovision Song Contest for five different countries over five decades, scoring one victory and multiple top 3…
Eurovision LegendsAmina
One of Emil's earliest memories was when an exotic French beauty very consciously dropped her scarf during her performance in 1991, and of the chaos that…
Eurovision LegendsHera Björk
One of Iceland's best voices have visited the Eurovision stage several times, both as a backup singer for other artists and as the leading lady with "Je ne…
Eurovision LegendsIzhar Cohen
It was the song that almost didn't make it to Eurovision but went on to bring Israel their first ever victory and to have a huge impact. Hear Izhar Cohen tell…
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Eurovision Legends is the podcast where Emil Löfström invites songwriters, artists and other important people from the world of the Eurovision Song Contest…