ISRAEL 🇮🇱
According to Israel Hayom Niki Goldstein, Moran Aharoni, Eden, and LUKAH will audition for The Next Star 2020. It is also confirmed that the show will be sued once again for selecting the artist for Eurovision 2020 but there is no clarification yet if there will be a second show f the song selection or it will be internally chosen.
NORWAY 🇳🇴
The final stage of the selection of the 25 songs that will compete in the five semifinals of MGP 2020 is Norwegian Public Television, as the national final producer Stig Karlsen tells us. The turnout was great this year too, as more than 800 songs were submitted!
GREECE 🇬🇷
Katerine Duska has been confirmed as a vocal coach in the ANT1 music talent show THE FINAL FOUR. She will be also joined by Stefania Rizou (2018 backing vocalist for Azerbaijan).
RUSSIA 🇷🇺
In the meantime Russian superstar, Philip Kirkorov lands in Greece and had a wonderful evening with Tamta and Saks Rouvas in Athens. They were joined by Dimitris Kontopoulos.
GREECE 🇬🇷
Kaiti Garbi, the singer who proudly represented Greece in the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest with the historic sexy dress (also ranked 9th) celebrated 30 years of career with a sold-out concert in Athens.
UKRAINE 🇺🇦
Last month, Ukrainian concert agency Show Impulse announced via Facebook that the MARUV tour in North America would be postponed indefinitely. The tour, which was to begin in New York on October 4, will instead take place in 2020.
SWEDEN 🇸🇪
One more Eurovision 2019 participant who visited Greece this year (after Mahmood in Mykonos and Delos), John Lundwig got some vacation time in the island of Santorini, after a social obligation in Athens (mount of Lycabettus)