Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience (2025-04-02): Meet the Eurostars - Sissal (Denmark) and Kyle Alessandro (Norway), Muzika Muzika 2025, Melodifestivalen 2025 Interviews

Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience is broadcast from Malta's Radio 105FM on Tuesday evenings from 2100 - 0059 hours CET. The show is broadcast live on Wednesday evenings from 1900 - 2300 hours CET on the Eurovision Radio International Mixcloud Channel as well as on the Facebook Page of Eurovision Radio International with an interactive chatroom.

 

 

AT A GLANCE - ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK

• Meet the Eurostars 2025:  Sissal (Denmark 2025) done at MelFstWknd 2025
• Meet the Eurostars 2025:  Kyle Alessandro (Norway 2025) done at MelFstWknd 2025
• Melodifestivalen 2025 Interviews:  Dolly Style, Annika Wickihalder and Ella.
• Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025:  Interview with Dre' Curmi 
• Muzika Muzika 2025 - We have a Winner - Jamie Cardona
• Eurovision Song Contest 2025: The Recaps of Semi Final 1 and 2 and the Grand Final Songs
• Eurovision Spotlight:  Eurovision 2025 in Regions:  The South with Eurovision Lordship Marcus Keppel-Palmer
• Eurovision News with Nick van Lith from www.escXtra.com
• Eurovision Birthday File with David Mann
• Eurovision Cover Spot with David Mann
• Eurovision Calendar with Javier Leal
• New Music Releases by Eurovision Artists
• Your music requests

The Eurovision Spotlight - The Eurovision 2025 Land in Regions:  All countries have now selected their entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 and with this marking the end of the National Final Season 2025 and the start of the Pre-Party Season where the artists promote their entries to the fans at e.g. Eurovision in Concert in Amsterdam, Madrid Pre-Party, London's Preview Event, MancHagen, The Nordic Eurovision PreParty and Eurovision Party SKG in Greece.

36 countries are taking part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 which will be taking place on 13 and 15 May 2024 for the two Semi Finals and the Grand Final on 17 May 2025. Radio International split the Eurovision Land 2025 into geographical regions North, East, South, West, Central, etc and each week the Radio International Eurovision experts are selecting one region playing the 2025 Eurovision entries. Marcus Keppel Palmer will be continuing the series looking at the Southern Countries' entries for this year.

 

MEET THE EUROSTARS 2025 - Interviews with Sissal (Denmark 2025) and Kyle Alessandro (Norway 2025):  During the Melodifestivalen 2025 Grand Final Week the OGAE of Sweden organised the fantastic MelFestWknd 2025 in Nalen of Stockholm where national and international media could meet the attending artists. On the guest lists among other were also Sissal who will represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "Hallucination". As well attending the MelFstWknD 2025 Media Meeting was Kyle Alessandro who represents Norway with the song "Lighter". He brought with him the songwriter of the song Adam Woods who himself competed in Melodifestivalen previously. Meet the EUROSTARS 2025 on the show this week enjoying the interview Radio International did with the artists.

 

Melodifestivalen 2025 Interviews:  From Melodifestivalen 2025 and the heats there are still a few interviews left Radio International would like to share with the listener and fans. This week listen to interviews with Annika Wickihalder (Heat 3),  Dolly Style (Heat 3) and Ella (Heat 4).

The details of the results of Melodifestivalen 2025 you can find over at our friends of wikipedia - click here.

 

 

Dre' Curmi (Malta Eurovision Song Contest 20205)

Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - Interview with Dre' Curmi: On Sat. 08 Feb 2025 Miriana Conte and her song "Kant" (now "Serving")  was selected by the jury and Maltese public to represent Malta at the Eurovision Song Contetest 2025 in Basel in May. Radio International conducted interviews with all the contestants at the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025 and more. Over the next weeks you will hear these interviews on Radio International's weekly dose. Alternatively, you will find the interviews on the Radio International YouTube Channel - or check out our complete coverage of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest - click here.
This week in the spotlight is a newcomer to the Malta Eurovision Song Contest:  Dre' Curmi who performed "Te Amo" in the contest in Semi Final 1. Listen to the interview on the show this week.

 

 

 

Muzika Muzika 2025:  Muzika Muzika is a music competition focussing on and celebrating the the Maltese Music. In 2021, Muzika Muzika returned after many years in hibernation with Glen Vella winning the first edition of the new ages, followed by Kurt Calleja, Gianluca Bezzina and Maxine Pace. The 2025 edition of Muzika Muzika took place on Thursday to Saturday 27, 28 and 29 Mar 2025 at MFCC in Ta Qali, Malta with Keith Demicolo, Moira Delia and Clare Agius being the hosts of the three shows.
16 Artists competed in Muzika Muzika 2025: Lisa Gauci, Hannah, Mara, Cliff Zammit Stevens, Daniel Cauchi, Marilyn Aqualina, Kapitlu Tlettax, Liston u Ema, Kersten Graham, Jasmin Abela, Gaia Gauchi, Pamela Bezzina, Jamie Cardona, Janvil ft Garison, Claudia Faniello, Ryan Hili and Brooke

 

Muzika Muzika 2025 Scoreboard

 

And the Winner of Muzika Muzika 2025 is ........ Jamie Cardona with the song "Stajna Konna Aħna"

 

 

Also JP will be joined by David Mann for the Eurovision Birthday File and Eurovision Coverspot.  Nick will be presenting the Eurovision News courtesy of escXtra.com. There will be a lot of the great new releases of Eurovision artists on the show as well as great Eurovision Classics. Javier will be updating us on the upcoming Eurovision events in the Eurovision Calendar and and and....

For full details of this week's Show Content and Play List - click here