- Celine Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion Angélil, OC, OQ, (born March 30 1968) is a Canadian pop vocalist and occasional songwriter. Born to a large, impoverished family in Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion became a young star in francophone Canada after her manager and would-be husband, René Angélil, mortgaged his home to finance her first record. - Dima Bilan
Dima Bilan (born Viktor Belan,, 24 December, 1981 in Karachay-Cherkessia) is a Karachay-Russian pop artist. Dima represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with "Never Let You Go", finishing second. - Vicky Rosti
Virve "Vicky" Rosti (born November 10 1958) is a Finnish singer of popular music. Her most famous songs include "Kun Chicago kuoli", "Tuolta saapuu Charlie Brown", "Menolippu", "Oon voimissain", "Sata salamaa" and "Jolene". Rosti represented her country in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 in Belgium. She sang "Sata salamaa", composed by Petri Laaksonen. The song finished 15th out of 22, scoring 28 points. - Sakis Rouvas
Anastasios 'Sakis' Rouvas (born January 5, 1972 in the island of Corfu) is a very popular Greek singer and athlete, as well as an actor, and a model, who has sold nearly 1.5 million records in Greece alone, and double that amount world-wide. He has been known by many throughout Europe since 2002, and became very loved in 2004, … - Charlotte Perrelli
Charlotte Perrelli (born October 7, 1974) is a Swedish singer who lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with her husband and two sons. She won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1999 with the song "Take Me To Your Heaven". Since then she has released six singles and four albums. - Kate Ryan
Kate Ryan, born Katrien Verbeeck on July 22, 1980, in Tessenderlo, Belgium to Dutch parents, is a Belgian pop music singer/songwriter. - Anna Vissi
Anna Vissi is a Cypriot-Greek singer, famous mainly in Greece, and her home country Cyprus, with success in the United States as well. - Justyna Steczkowska
Justyna Steczkowska is a Polish singer, song-writer and actress. She has also performed under the name Justyna. She comes from a very musical family. She played violin in a family band before becoming a singer. Justyna Steczkowska became famous when she won one of the most popular song contests in Poland "Szansa na sukces" with a song "Buenos Aires". Her wide volce scale is one of her most noticble traits as a singer. - Shiri Maimon
Shiri Maimon and was also the Israeli representative in the 2005 ESC. - Tina Karol
Tina Karol is a Ukrainian singer. Born as Tetiana Liberman (Тетяна Григорівна Ліберман) to Ukrainian parents in Orotukan, Magadan Oblast, Russian Far East, Karol moved to Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine at the age of six. She graduated from a music school and a Kiev Gliere Music College. Karol has participated in numerous youth, regional, international and Jewish singing contests as well as musicals and theatrical shows. - Polina Smolova
Polina Smolova is the Belarusian entry for the 2006 Eurovision contest with the song "Mum". She won the Grand Prix at the "Slavonic Bazaar 2005" and an award at the Contest for Young Performers. She was given the honorary title "Inhabitant of the city of Minsk" and, at the Belarusian music awards "Teleportation", she was voted "Person of the Year". She failed in Eurovision Semi Final, by placing at 22nd. - Julio Iglesias
Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva is Spain's best selling singer and the best-selling Spanish singer of all time. Julio Iglesias has sold over 250 million records in different languages and released 77 records. He thus far has performed approximately 5,000 concerts during his career and recorded albums in fourteen different languages. - Brian Kennedy
Brian Edward Patrick Kennedy (born 12 October 1966) is a Northern Ireland based IrishDied = | Origin = Belfast, Northern Ireland | Instrument = | Genre =Rock<br>Pop | Occupation = Singer-songwriter, Author | Years_active = | Label = | Associated_acts = Van Morrison | URL = Brian Kennedy official site | Notable_instruments = }} singer-songwriter and author, known for singing gentle ballads. He was born and grew up on the Falls Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland. - Domenico Modugno
Domenico Modugno (January 9 1928 - Lampedusa August 6 1994) was a twice Grammy Award-winning Italian singer, songwriter, and later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament - Verka Serduchka
Andriy Mykhailovych Danylko (born October 2, 1973 in Poltava, Ukraine), better known as his character Verka Serduchka, a flamboyant middle aged woman, is a Ukrainian comedian and pop and dance singer. - Alf Poier
Alf Poier is an Austrian artist and stand-up comedian. Born in Judenburg in Styria, he started doing cabaret in 1995 in Graz, and has won several prizes for his work, including the Salzburger Stier in 1998, the Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis, Prix Phanteon and RTL Comedy Award in 2000 and the Austrian Karl in 2002. In 2003, Poier participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 and secured 6th place with his entry "Weil Der Mensch Zählt" ("Because humans count"). - Chris Doran
Chris Doran from Waterford, Ireland was the winner of Ireland's You're A Star 2003-2004 talent search competition to find Ireland's Eurovision Song Contest entry. The competition held auditions throughout Ireland, and the winners went through to the final stages, with one act eventually decided on. The show was aired on RTÉ. - Fabrizio Faniello
Fabrizio Faniello (born April 27, 1981) is a Maltese pop singer. He represented Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2001 and 2006. He is seen by many as Malta's hope in its fledgling experimental electronica scene, contributing to many international compilations and collaborating with well known artists as diverse as Jim O'Rourke, Fennesz, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Richard D. James and Masami Akita. - Sandra Kim
Sandra Caldarone, better known as Sandra Kim, is a Belgian singer of Italian descent who won the Eurovision Song Contest held in Bergen, Norway, on 3 May 1986. She was born in Montegnée, near Liège, and started singing when she was seven. At the time of her Eurovision win, she was only 13 years old, despite claiming in the lyrics of her song "J'aime La Vie" ("I love life") to be 15. - Nanne Grönvall
Nanne Grönvall is a Swedish singer-songwriter. Her musical career started in the 1980s group "Sound of Music". The trio participated twice in the Swedish Eurovision Song Contest selections, Melodifestivalen, finishing fourth both times; in 1986 with "Eldorado" and in 1987 with "Alexandra". Over the following ten years she established herself as a songwriter in Melodifestivalen, … - Ira Losco
Ira Losco is a singer, born 31 July 1981 in Sliema, Malta. - Lotta Engberg
Lotta Engberg is a Swedish dansband and pop singer, born "Anna Charlotte Pedersen" on March 5 1963 in Överkalix, Sweden, grew-up in Laxå, Sweden, is a Swedish dansband and pop singer. She has also been a TV show host. The song Fyra Bugg & en Coca Cola, performed by Lotta Engberg, won Melodifestivalen 1987 and finished 12th at the Eurovision Song Contest 1987. Nowadays (2007), she lives outside Alingsås, Sweden with her husband Patrik, one of her daughters, … - Niamh Kavanagh
Niamh Kavanagh (born 1968) is an Irish singer. Singing "In Your Eyes" (words and music by Jimmy Walsh) she won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1993 for the host nation, Ireland. It was the best selling single in Ireland for 1993, and reached No. 24 in the United Kingdom. Previously she had performed as a lead and backing vocalist on the film soundtracks for "The Commitments". - Hari Mata Hari
Hari Mata Hari is a popular music band from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Hari Mata Hari is the stage name for the singer Hajrudin "Hari" Varešanović. The group originated from the city of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The group has performed over 1,000 concerts and sold 5,000,000 albums to date. Their songs are among the most famous and popular love ballads in the former Yugoslav era. - Barbara Dex
Barbara Dex is a Belgian singer who represented her country in the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Iemand Als Jij. Dex had qualified via the Belgian national heat, Eurosong 93, held at the Casino Knokke on March 6th. At the Eurovision in Millstreet, she won seventh spot, after Greece's entry Ellada, hora tou fotos and before Malta's song This time. Dex came 25th and last. While the song itself is not particularly memorable, … - Sofia Mestari
Sofia Mestari(born in 1980) is a french singer of moroccan origin, at the age of ten she moved to Paris with her family. In 2000 she performed in the Eurovision Song Contest for France with the song On aura le ciel, which placed 23rd out of 24 with 5 points. She released an album of the same name, with two singles, 'On aura le ciel' and 'Derrière les voiles', and 2003 saw the release of a new album 'En plein coeur de la nuit' and featured the single 'Ne pars pas'. - Angelica Agurbash
Angelica Agurbash (or Anzhelika Agurbash, Russian: Анжелика Агурбаш, Belarusian: Анжаліка Агурбаш), born May 17 1970, is a Belarusian pop-singer, who competed for Belarus at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005. Angelica Agurbash (born Yalinskaya) was born in Minsk, Belarus. In 1988, she won the first Miss Belarus title when she was a student of the Belarusian Academy of Arts. - Marie N
Marija Naumova (born June 23 1973) is an ethnic Russian singer living in Latvia. Under the stage name Marie N, she sings a broad range of music ranging from pop, through musical theatre jazz, and has recorded several albums, with songs in Latvian, French, English, Russian and Portuguese. In 2002 she brought Latvia victory from the Eurovision Song Contest with her song "I Wanna". - Doris Dragović
Doris Dragović is a Croatian pop singer. She has been known to support Torcida football fans. She became popular in the 1980s with well-known songs such as "Sedam mora, sedam gora" and "Selim ti ja". Her later hits include "Što je od mene ostalo" and "To". In 1999, her performance of the dramatic song "Marija Magdalena" beat 23 other entries to win Croatia's annual epic-length Dora contest, which entitled her to represent the country in the Eurovision Song Contest, … - Sarit Hadad
Sarit Hadad is a popular Israeli singer. Born in Hadera, Israel, her real name is Sara Hodedtov (Hebrew: שרה חודדטוב). She comes from a musical family and was recognized as a child prodigy. At the age of eight, she started performing on the piano at a local club without telling her parents. This went on for two years until they found out. Apart from classical piano, she taught herself to play other instruments, among them organ, guitar, … - Mickey Joe Harte
Mickey Joe Harte or now simply known as Mickey Harte is a professional singer-songwriter from Lifford, County Donegal, Ireland. He was chosen to represent Ireland in the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest with "We've Got The World" (written by Martin Brannigan and Keith Molly). He won this through telephone votes by viewers of the Radio Telifís Éireann reality show, "You're A Star", … - Lena Philipsson
Lena Philipsson, also known as Lena Ph, is a Swedish singer and media personality. Philipsson came to notice in the Swedish "New Faces" in 1982. Her career started with the single "Boy/You Open My Eyes" (1984) and with her participations at Melodifestivalen 1986, 1987 and 1988. In the early 1990’s her fame increased in Sweden, and she continued to release albums of varying styles until 1997. She returned in 2004 after a seven year hiatus. - Mariana Popova
Mariana Popova (born June 6, 1978) is a Bulgarian singer. She is best known for representing Bulgaria at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006. - Anabel Conde
Anabel Conde is an Spanish singer born in Fuengirola (Málaga) on June 16, 1975. She was choosen by TVE to represent Spain in Eurovision Song Contest 1995, realized on May 13 in Dublin, (Ireland). Anabel performed the song Vuelve conmigo, written by Jose María Purón, getting the second place after the Norwegian entry. It has been the best position of this country in Eurovision in 12 years. Anabel Conde received 119 points, the highest Spanish puntuation ever. - Hanna Pakarinen
Hanna Helena Pakarinen (born April 17, 1981 in Lappeenranta, Finland) is a Finnish pop singer who was the first winner of Finland's version of "Idols" in 2004. Hanna was born in Lappeenranta, Eastern Finland. She proudly speaks the dialect of the region. She currently lives in Helsinki, Finland. Before she won the first Finnish Idols in 2004, gaining over 60% of the votes, she worked as a forklift driver. - Patrick Fiori
Patrick Fiori is a French singer. Fiori was born to an Armenian father (Jacques Chouchayan) and a Corsican mother (Marie Antoinette Fiori) in Marseille, France. When he was only 12 years old, he was offered his first role in the musical "La légende des santonniers". At the age of 16, he recorded his first single, entitled "Stéphanie". In 1993, Patrick came fourth place in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Mama Corsica". - Stelios Konstantas
Stelios Konstantas is a well known singer in Cyprus. He has already participated in two national finals for the Eurovision Song Contest. He came second in 1997 with "I grammitis ntropi" and fourth in 1999 with "Methysmeno feggari". Konstantas has released one album and a single through V2 records who was responsible for commercially release "Feeling Alive", the entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2003. The song finished 20th. - Rosa López
Rosa López, also known as Rosa, or Rosa de España, is a Spanish singer and dancer. Her musical career began when she sang with a small orchestra at parties in the Granada area (Andalucía). She was chosen to participate in the singing academy of Spanish television, "Operación Triunfo", a series (similar to "American Idol"); she eventually won the first season of the competition in 2001. - Karmen Stavec
Karmen Stavec is a Slovene musician and pop singer. Karmen was born in West Berlin, at that time part of West Germany, to Slovene parents. After graduation she came to Domžale, Slovenia, where she joined the dance duo "4 Fun". She also began to study Germanic studies at the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Ljubljana. In 1998 she started her own solo career. She has participated four times in Slovene national selection, … - Alenka Gotar
Alenka Gotar is a Slovene soprano singer, born in Ljubljana in 1977. With the song “Cvet z juga” (“Flower of the South”), she represented Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, Finland. Achieving 7th place in the semi final, she became the first Slovene to qualify to the grand final, where she ended fifteenth with 66 points.
|
| |