From ABBA to Conchita. Anyone remember the winners of Eurovision
For 63-year history of the European song contest “Eurovision” gave the audience a lot of unforgettable moments and performances. The most memorable rooms are the winners of the contest in the material Aephi.
ABBA. 1974
The Swedish Quartet became the first winner of “Eurovision”, whose fame spilled beyond Europe. The fact that the competition ABBA came from the actual music for their song “Waterloo” later became an international hit, and is still considered one of the best songs in their repertoire. The group lasted only ten years, but its revival fans are still waiting. In 2000, the band was offered a billion dollars for what they could be as one ABBA, and now has a chance to finally see the legendary group: the project is preparing a world tour with holographic images of the musicians. But with new material — Agnetha, Bjorn, benny and Anni-Frid have recorded two new songs.
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Celine Dion. 1980
Canadian singer began performing very early on, received some notoriety in Europe and Asia, but “the Eurovision song contest 1988” in which she represented Switzerland with the French song “Ne partez pas sans moi” made a 20-year-old performer a real star. And when James Cameron chose the theme for his “Titanic” Dion ballad “My Heart Will Go On”, her fame has only increased. The Oscar, Golden globe and a Grammy, millions of records, and easy recognition all over the world cemented the status of Celine Dion is so strong that it could not shake the periodic breaks in my career.
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Toto Cutugno. 1990
Italian singer, regularly dominated the festival in Sanremo, came to “Eurovision” at the age of 47 years as a full-fledged star of the European stage easily won the hearts of viewers. The song “Insieme 1992”, however, was not the same hit, such as “L’italiano”, but was included in the eponymous album Cutugno, who followed the traces of the victory on “Eurovision”.
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Dana International. 1998
The decision to send the contest singer of shemale, apparently, was given to the Israeli organizers of the competition is not easy, but it is possible that country a third time to win on “Eurovision”. With regard to This, after performing the song “Diva” and a legitimate first place she his portion of the glory was full, and the echoes of that glory allow it to act, release albums and singles and run his own show.
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Ruslan. 2004
Musicians from countries of the former USSR, won the “Eurovision” and Ruslana (Estonia 2001, Latvia in 2002), but Ukrainian singer became the first won by the representative of the CIS. Contest Ruslana was the semi-final (when he was single) with the song “Wild Dances” and won the finals, the opponents were strong, but she managed. Later, the singer became famous for her activism: she participated in the first Maidan in 2004 and the euromaidan of 2014, was a member of Parliament.
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Lordi. 2006
In principle, the “Eurovision” musicians rockers appear periodically, but, as a rule, to anything good it does not. The only exception here is the group from Finland, which successfully hit a nerve with the audience. The members of the group wearing masks of monsters, not the hard rock in music history, but not sugary pop, which, let’s be honest, annoying at Eurovision the most. And as a result — unexpected but deserved victory with the song “Hard Rock Hallelujah”. Fortunately, it was not a signal for other countries, so that in the rock festival “the Eurovision” did not become.
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Dima Bilan. 2008
To win his representative Russia were long and hard. The first experiments on competition in which we came in the mid-90s, was a failure, a failure turned even travel Alla Pugacheva and Philip Kirkorov. Closest to the victory was Alsu (second in 2000) and the Duo t.A.T.u (third place in 2003, but the gap with the winner was only 3 points). Bilan tried twice. In 2006, he became the second, but not surrendered, and in 2008 I went again to win the contest with the song “Believe”. But at the same time set the fashion for the appearance on the scene of a violinist and a figure skater.
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Conchita Wurst. 2014
The singer/the singer from Austria has become a kind of Dana international of our time, in some aspects even surpassed it, but in principle, she repeated the same story. Bearded Conchita, of course, shocked the audience, but her performance of the song “Rise Like a Phoenix” was so good that the beard caused by the shock, but appreciation rooms left. In Russia, where he had just begun to tighten the screws, the attitude of the representative of Austria was not so benevolent (even required not to broadcast the show), and she has long become a symbol of things forbidden, and at the same time the hero of a variety of memes. The reality was much more prosaic. Hiding behind the mask Thomas Neuwirth continues to tour and sing, but he recently acknowledged his diagnosis (he has HIV). But at the same time said that Conchita has exhausted itself, so he radically changed his image. But few know of Neuwirth and Conchita — perhaps not the whole world.
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Jamal. 2016
Ukrainian singer, which was very lucky with the political situation. Her song “1944” before the start of the contest was accused of excessive politicization (in the “Eurovision” is usually not allowed), but the organizers chose to ignore direct instructions to the Crimea, which in the two years before that seceded from Ukraine and joined Russia. In the end, at the “Eurovision 2016” there was a strange situation: the points from the jury won Australian singer DAMI Im, scores from the audience — Russian Sergey Lazarev, and the sum of the points victory went to Jamal. How this victory helped the singer to achieve international success, hard to say (album “1944” was released in Europe and the USA), but brought it to Kiev “Eurovision-2017”, apparently, will long remain an unattainable number of scandals.
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