Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience (2020-10-07) Eldar Gasimov of Ell & Nikki Live Interview (Eurovision Winner 2011, Azerbaijan) and more

Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience is broadcast from Malta's Radio 105FM on Tuesday evenings from 2100 - 2359 hours CET. The show is also broadcast on Castlepoint FM in the United Kingdom live on Wednesday evenings from 2000 - 2300 hours CET as well as on the Facebook Page of Eurovision Radio International with an interactive chatroom.

 

Eldar Gasimov of Ell and Nikki - Eurovision Winner 2011, Azerbaijan with JP at the Eurovision Concert in Amsterdam , Dec 2019

Live Interview with Eurovision Winner Eldar Gasimov (Azerbaijan 2011):  In the Corona series of live interviews Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience is reaching out to a number of artists from the world of the Eurovision Song Contest but also from the national finals. Over the last weeks we had an incredible success with having a number a great artists sharing an hour with Radio International's Interview Team such as Katrina of Katrina and the Waves, Nicki French, Rainer from Wind, Jalisse, James Newman, Senhit, Vanessa Amarosi, Lesley Roy, just to mention a few.  

This week Radio International's Interview Team JP, Sadie Trent and John Dawton are being joined via SKYPE by Eurovision 2011 Winner and Co-Host of Eurovision 2012 from Azerbaijan - Eldar Gasimov who together with his singing partner Nigar Jamal or Nikki won the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with the song "Running Scared". In 2012, when Azerbaijan's capital Baku hosted Eurovision Eldar was the Co-Host of the Eurovision Song Contest.

The Interview Team of Radio International is very much looking forward to having Eldar on the show for a chat and listeners are encouraged to actively take part during the show to submit their questions via our Facebook Chatroom during the live broadcast on Wednesday evening from 1900 - 2300 hours CET or via our website's email address - click here.

Junior Eurovision 2020 will take place in Warsaw, Poland after the victory of young Viki Gabor  who won in 2019 in Poland with the song “Superhero”. The contest will be staged on 29 November 2020 with Germany debuting and not taking part in 2020 are Albania, Australia, Ireland, Italy, North Macedonia, Portugal and Wales.

13 countries have confirmed participation: Armenia, Belarus, France, Georgia, Germany, Kazakhstan, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Spain and Ukraine.

Performances. Due to the Corona Pandemic a new way had to be found to stage Junior Eurovision 2020. This will be the first time that the contest will be held remotely, with each artist performing from a television studio in their country of origin. To give smoothness and confidence to the competition, the 13 participating broadcasters committed themselves to giving equal conditions to each of the participants, using a similar scenario and the same technical resources. The opening protocol, interval acts and voting will be broadcast live from Warsaw.

Hosts. Ida Nowakowska-Herndon, Rafał Brzozowski and Małgorzata Tomaszewska will present the 18th edition of the Contest on 29 November 2020.

During the live show on Wednesday evening (2000 - 2300 hours CET) we enjoyed a very active chatroom resulting that many requests were also played on the show this week.

Then there is the Eurovision Birthday File, the Eurovision Cover Spot, the Eurovision Spotlight, the Eurovision Calendar Update and Eurovision News courtesy of escXtra.com. Plus the best selection of great Eurovision music and new releases by Eurovision artists.

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