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Valentina Monetta

Valentina Monetta (born 1 March 1975, City of San Marino) is a Sammarinese singer known for her participation in the Eurovision Song Contest Baku 2012 with "The Social Network Song (oh oh?uh?oh oh)". In 2008 Monetta sent in the song "Se non ci sei tu" for the San Marino national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, but she was not selected by San Marino RTV. On 14 March 2012, it was announced by San Marino RTV, that she would represent San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan with the entry "Facebook uh oh oh".

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Sabina Babayeva

Sabina Babayeva (Azerbaijani: S?bin? Babayeva, born December 2, 1979, Baku, Azerbaijan) is an Azerbaijani singer. She represents Azerbaijan in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 26 May 2012 with her entry, "When the Music Dies". A graduate of the Asaf Zeynally College of Music with a degree in vocal arts, she has participated in a number of song competitions both in her country and abroad.

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Compact Disco

Compact Disco is an elecronic band from Budapest, Hungary. The band was formed in 2008 and consists of Behnam Lotfi, Gábor Pál, Attila Sándor and Csaba Walkó. The band released their first album “Stereoid” in 2009, followed by “II”. The group have also released their most known song “I’m in Love” worldwide over the last two years, and won an MTV European Music Award for “Best Hungarian Artist” in 2011.

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Chips

"Chips" refers to four artists: 1)Swedish pop group with Elisabeth Andreassen, Kikki Danielsson and Lasse Holm, as well as 2)a short-lived New York doo-wop band consisting of teenage friends Charles Johnson (lead vocal), Nathaniel Epps (baritone), Paul Fulton (bass), Sammy Strain and Shedwick Lincoln (tenors). The group's first recording is their most enduring; "Rubber Biscuit" started life as Johnson's answer to the marching rhythms of the Warwick School For Delinquent Teenagers while he was an intern there and 3) a noise-rock/post-punk band from Bretagne...

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Bucks Fizz

On the 4th April 1981, history was to be made as four relatively unknown singers Mike Nolan, Cheryl Baker, Bobby G and Jay Aston, collectively known as Bucks Fizz, represented the UK at that years Eurovision Song Contest.
Bucks Fizz performed the timeless classic tune "Making Your Mind Up", together with the now famous skirt ripping dance routine. This was one of the most up tempo songs of the evening and with only two rounds of voting to go, it was a thre way tie between Germany the UK and Switzerland.

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Omar Naber

Omar Naber Naber (born Omar Kareem on 7 July 1981, in Ljubljana, Slovenia) is a Slovenian singer and songwriter. His mother is a Slovenian music teacher, his father is a Jordanian dentist. Omar Naber studied to become a dental technician, but after graduating he decided to devote his life to music. He won "Bitka talentov", the Slovenian version of the Battle of the talents, and participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with "Stop", a song he composed himself.

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