Show #237
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New music this week from 90s Eurovision alum Petra Frey, who brings us a little schlaeger to brighten up our February! The National Triple Play takes us to tiny Andorra to hear half of their entire back catalogue, and the fan favourite delivers another wonderful song chosen by one of you. Plus as always our usual check up on the weeks Eurovision news…
This Weeks Highlights
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Petra Frey
New Music
Petra Frey is an Austrian singer who has released twelve studio albums and five compilation albums. She represented Austria in the 1994 contest with 'Für den Frieden der Welt', placing 17th.
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Rykka
Fan Favourite
Christina Maria Rieder, better known by their stage name Rykka, is a Swiss-Canadian singer and songwriter from Vancouver, British Columbia. In 2016 they represented Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm with the song 'The Last of Our Kind'.
Andorra has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest six times, debuting in the 2004 contest and participating every year thereafter until the 2009 contest. To date, Andorra remains the only nation to have never competed in a final, with its best result being a 12th-place finish in the 2007 contest’s semi-final. Andorra withdrew from the contest following its 2009 appearance, with the national broadcaster Ràdio i Televisió d’Andorra (RTVA) citing financial difficulties as the reason for its withdrawal. The country has not entered the contest again since. Interest in the contest has, however, remained high in the country, while statements from the Andorran government and broadcaster indicated that a future return was possible, depending on financial backing.
RTVA used a mixture of methods to select its entrants in the years it competed, employing a national final for 2004, 2005 and 2009 and selecting internally between 2006 and 2008. A televote was principally used to determine the nation’s points, however, due to the country’s small population, on occasion a jury was required as the number of votes received from the Andorran public was deemed too low to be considered valid.
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Marta Roure i Besolí is an Andorran singer and actress who comes from a musical family. Her great-grandfather, Joan Roure i Riu, was a trumpeter, her grandfather Joan Roure i Jané a sardana was a composer, her aunt Meritxell Roure i Morist has been a piano teacher, and her father Jordi Roure i Torra a band director, trumpeter and trumpet teacher. Marta has a sister, Anna, who is a piano teacher.
In 2004, Roure was chosen to represent Andorra in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 with her song “Jugarem a estimar-nos”, following a programme on the Andorra Televisió. It was the first time Andorra competed at the Eurovision Song Contest, and the first time a song in Catalan language was performed at the competition.
Track List
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1 | It’s All About You | Juliana Pasha | 2010 Albania |
2 | Secret Combination | Kalomira | 2008 Greece |
3 | Sense Tu | Jenny | 2006 Andorra |
4 | La Mirada Interior | Marian Van De Wal | 2005 Andorra |
5 | Jugarem A Estimar-Nos | Marta Roure | 2004 Andorra |
6 | Wild Soul | Cristina Scarlat | 2014 Moldova |
7 | Long Live Love | Olivia Newton John | 1974 United Kingdom |
8 | Liebe bleibt ein großes Wunder | Petra Frey | 2024 Non Contest |
9 | Mojot Svet | Karolina Gorcheva | 2007 North Macedonia |
10 | Unicorn | Noa Kirel | 2023 Israel |
11 | Let Me Fly | Debbie Scerri | 1997 Malta |
12 | Hatrid Mun Sigra | Hatari | 2019 Iceland |
13 | The Last Of Our Kind | Rykka | 2016 Switzerland |
14 | Energy | Nusa Derenda | 2001 Slovenia |
15 | Et Uus Saaks Alguse | Birgit Oigemeel | 2013 Estonia |
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