18-years old Yohanna (Johanna Gudrun Jonsdottir) will represent Iceland at Eurovision 2009 with song "Is It True?" written by Oskar Pall Sveinsson, Christopher Neil and Tinatin Japaridze. Yohanna is singing since 8 years old. Her debut International album Butterflies and Elvis was released late 2008 and got good reviews.
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.
The Story
In late 1980 Nichola Martin and Andy Hill sought to create a new group to enter their song 'Making Your Mind up' in the Eurovision song contest. After successfully finding Mike Nolan, Cheryl Baker, Jay Aston and Bobby Gee they decided on the name Bucks Fizz (after Nichola's Favourite drink!). After winning A Song for Europe the newly formed band went on to win the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin and also created the now famous skirt ripping routine. Making Your Mind Up went straight to number one in the UK and around Europe making the band international stars overnight.
Andy Abraham is a solo singer who came second in the UK's second series of The X Factor in 2005. Debut album "The Impossible Dream" entered at UK #2, featuring many covers, and debut single "Hang Up" made #63 in the UK singles chart. His second album, 'Soul Man', made #19 in the UK in November 2006. He scored a #18 hit single in December 2006 with Michael Underwood and the song, 'December Brings Me Back To You'.
Ivi Adamou (Greek: ?βη Αδ?μου, born on November 24, 1993 in Paralimni, Famagusta and grew up in Ayia Napa, Famagusta, Cyprus) is a Greek Cypriot singer. She represents Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan with La La Love. The song was chosen on January 25, 2012 in a show where she also performed 2 other songs - You Don't Belong Here and Call the Police. Ivi is the second child of Adamos and Marianna Adamou. Her mother is Bulgarian. She has two sisters named Despina and Kleopatra. Ivi graduated from Paralimni Lyceum.
Goran Kay is a classically trained singer/songwriter who grew up in Switzerland and has spent the past 10 years in London.
He is fluent in six languages including English, Portuguese, French and Kurdish.
His impressive songwriting debut was with million selling song ‘Another Day’ performed by G4 on their album ‘G4 and Friends’, co-written by Hugo de Chaire.
Goran has recently written two new verses for the Brazilian hit ‘Oceano’. The original version was written and recorded by Brazilian superstar Djavan. Goran recently met Djavan who has given the green light for its’ release.
There are at least six artists named Plastic:
1. a german electro - ebm band similar to A23 in style there album black colours has been hailed by many as a masterpice
http://www.myspace.com/plasticmusicde 2.Plastic are Agnieszka Burcan (vocal, keyboards, programming) and Pawel Radziszewski (guitar, scratches, programming). Their debut album is full of various music vibes. It takes you on a journey from dance, house through electro, funk, and drum’n’bass to chillout.
Lidia is a versatile singer, endowed with a very warm and at the same time strong voice, with a very broad – four-octave vocal range. In the Eurovision Song Contest, Lidia Kopania will present a song called I Don’t Wanna Leave, which proves that there are no borders in music. The piece for the Polish singer was co-composed by a German composer born in Moscow, Alex Geringas. Lidia Kopania has released three albums so far: Beating The Morning Rush (2004), as well as Intuicja (2006) and Przed Switem (2008).
Filipa Sousa (born March 2, 1985 in Albufeira) is a Portuguese singer who represents Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, in Baku, Azerbaijan after winning the Festival da Canção with her entry, "Vida minha" (Life of Mine). Filipa debuted in 2003, as a member of the Portuguese group, Al-Mouraria. In the same year, she auditioned for the second edition of Operação Triunfo, reaching the 30 finalist but not qualifying for the last 15. It was in 2007, that she once again auditioned for Operação Triunfo reaching the final 15, and received recognition for the public.
Soliaris (real name Algimantas Minalga) is a Lithuanian pop artist born in 1985. He started his career in a vocal band called "Tabu". He became famous as a soloist when participating in a Lithuanian reality show "Dangus" (eng. Sky). After it he recorded his first solo album "Po dviguba saule" (eng. Under double sun) in May 2007. He participated in a Latvian reality show "Hello Jurmala". In 2010 Soliaris took part in the Lithuanian preselection of the Eurovision Song Contest with "So High".