Ukraine 2018 🇺🇦 Ukrainian tour, new album and support by Jean Paul Gaultier for Mélovin
UKRAINE 🇺🇦 After completing his Eurovision journey The X Factor winner MELOVIN proceeding with his music career and prior to Eurovision schedule.
“I was over Eurovision from day 1 right after the Grand Final. I simply didn’t have a chance to take even a day off. I’m putting together the show with my team for my Ukrainian tour, already working on my future album and also preparing to voice-over one of the upcoming animated blockbusters, which I’m really excited about,” — MELOVIN says.
For his tour, MELOVIN will travel to five biggest Ukrainian cities: Lviv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Odessa and completing the tour with nearly sold out gig in Kyiv. MELOVIN will also perform as special guest at first ever ZEDD’s set in Kyiv. Famous producer, songwriter and DJ, who’s working with A-list singers like Alessia Cara, Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez and Lady Gaga, picked MELOVIN to perform before his set in Kyiv as a special guest on July 19th. The LA-based producer is not the only one who was overwhelmed by Ukrainian singer.
“I met Jean Paul Gaultier at Eurovision’s final backstage. I was so impressed to hear that a true fashion legend likes my vocal performance and staging, especially the appearance of the piano at the beginning. What else do you need if you’ve been supported by such amazing talents like Jean Paul Gaultier or Verka Serduchka through this Eurovision journey? Not to mention my devoted fans all over Europe, who gave me so much support, and I will never forget it.”
The Ukrainian singer had opened the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest Grad Final with his entry song ‘Under the Ladder’ and received a tremendous support from viewers all over Europe. And this is the only the beginning of another amazing journey – stay tuned for MELOVIN.
🇱🇺 Lara Fabian gives a second night / sold out concert in Athens
GREECE 🇬🇷 A year ago the one day tour of Lara Fabian disappointed her Greek fans as the concert cancelled the very last minute (before Lara gets on stage) as a rain made the open air concert at OAKA impossible to take place. A year after the concert not only took place in an inside arena but also gave the opportunity for the Greeks to enjoy her as Lara performed twice (Saturday 19, Sunday 20). Both concerts were sold out in an arena of estimated 12,000 auditors.
Lara Sophie Katy Crokaert, better known as Lara Fabian, is a Canadian-Belgian singer. She has sold over 20 million records worldwide and is one of the best-selling Belgian artists of all time. She was born in Etterbeek, Brussels to a Belgian father and a Sicilian mother. Since 1996 she holds a Canadian citizenship alongside the original Belgian.
As of 2015 she lived in Walloon Brabant province in Belgium just outside Brussels. She has since moved back to Montreal.
In 1988, the RTL TV channel in Luxembourg invited Fabian to represent the country at the 33rd Eurovision Song Contest, held that year in Dublin, Ireland.
The song was a composition by Jacques Cardona and Alain Garcia entitled Croire (Belief) which reached a respectable fourth place (while Celine Dion won the contest representing Switzerland).
The single became a hit in Europe, selling nearly 500,000 copies.
Barbara Dex Award 2018 🇲🇰 Eye Cue are the winners
FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA 🇲🇰 The annual web award of Barbara Dex for the worst dressed participant in the Eurovision Song Contest concluded. The winners are Eye Cue from FYR Macedonia. The pink jacket of Marija which she dropped during her performance seems to have been the key factor for the fans to vote for this entry.
The top five of the web voting ended up with FYR Macedonia as the winner followed by Australia, Belgium, Montenegro and Israel.
It is the second time FYR Macedonia wins this award. The first time was in 2005 with Martin Vucic.
Eurovision 2018 🇵🇹 our PED video: the Lisbon Bloopers
PORTUGAL 🇵🇹 One week after the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest and we try to keep the spirits up! Our Post Eurovision Depression is about to finally get healed with our annual bloopers video. 15 days in Lisbon, dozen of hours of filming, working, interviewing but still fun was the key element to enjoy the event and it’s coverage.
🇪🇺 Scientific proof that Eurovision makes you happy!
EUROPE 🇪🇺 For raw data, the researchers, led by Filippos Filippidis, of Imperial’s School of Public Health, turned to the Eurobarometer, a series of public-opinion surveys that has been carried out in all the countries of Europe since 1973.
Twice a year, the surveys include the question, “On the whole, are you very satisfied, fairly satisfied, not very satisfied or not at all satisfied with the life you lead?”
Filippidis and his colleagues analyzed responses from more than a hundred and sixty thousand people, from thirty-three European countries, between 2009 and 2015—specifically in the spring, just after the Eurovision final.
The study controlled for a range of factors, including the respondents’ age, gender, employment and marital status, and whether they’d had difficulty paying their bills in the previous twelve months.
