On May 3-4th Sabina, Azerbaijani representative at Eurovision Song Contest 2012, will make the next stop on her European promotional tour in Malta. It’s going to be the first time Sabina goes to Malta! She is exited to meet her fans and Maltese press in just few days. Azerbaijani singer will...
KURT CALLEJA HEADS TO TURKEY
posted by SUBMITTED
Kurt Calleja, Malta’s representative at the Eurovision Song Contest has just arrived in Istanbul, Turkey after a visit to Tbilisi, Georgia. Whilst in Istanbul, Kurt has a full schedule of events and promotional activities prepared which include a special interview today for the programme...
KURT CALLEJA IN GEORGIAN TV SHOW
posted by ANOTHER SOURCE
GPB.GE REPORTS The hosts of the program Our Morning of 1st channel of Georgian Public Broadcaster invited in the studio Kurt Calleja – contender of Malta at Eurovision 2012. Kurt Calleja arrived in Tbilisi on April 9, within the promotional tour. He was invited in Auditory – TV...
MALTESE ENTRY AVAILABLE ON ITUNES
posted by SUBMITTED
Kurt Calleja has just released the Eurovision entry This Is The Night on iTunes store for the Maltese market. There are three different versions released so far. These include the standard version, the Promostella Club Remix which lasts 5.03 minutes and the Instrumental/Karaoke...
NORMAN HAMILTON RESIGNS FROM PBS
posted by SUBMITTED
Veteran broadcaster Norman Hamilton said today that he had resigned from his role as consultant to PBS CEO Anton Attard on the Eurovision Song Contest. He said on One TV that his resignation was immediate and irrevocable. This was the second year that Mr Hamilton, who presents a program on One...
AMBER REPLACES YENIA VELLA
posted by ALENKA (SWITZERLAND)
Due to the need of better backing vocalist, PBS removed from the Baku team last week the singer Yenia Vella as local press reported. PBS replaced her with Amber as announced today, who will join Kurt Calleja, Rebecca Spiteri, Christian Calleja, Kevin Calleja and Warren Bonello on the stage of...
BACKING SINGER OUSTED FROM
BAKU TEAM
posted by SUBMITTED
Despite being made to travel to Azerbaijan and possibly miss her A-Level exams, backing singer Ylenia Vella was unceremoniously cut from Kurt Calleja’s band by the Public Broadcasting Authority last week. Kurt Calleja’s song This Is The Night is set to represent Malta at the annual Eurovision Song Contest, which will this year be taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan at the end of May. No statement was released from PBS regarding Vella’s removal, though the singer herself took to social networking website Facebook to announce that she will no longer be participating in the Europe-wide song festival. ‘It has now been confirmed: I’ve been...
MALTA & LATVIA PRESENT OFFICI...
posted by ALENKA (SWITZERLAND)
LATVIA Latvians are getting ready for the first semifinal of the Baku 2012 Eurovision Song Contest and Anmary presented today the official video for her “Beautiful Song” themed with a story of success. Radio SWH studio, medieval manor in Edole, Riga airport, studio “Sound...
TVM PRESENTS OFFICIAL VIDEO ON FRI...
posted by SUBMITTED
TVM announced another milestone in the preparations for Malta’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest in May. This time, the crew of TVM and the team behind Kurt Calleja were busy making the music video of the winning song of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest ‘This Is The Night’....
CHIARA SINGS ICELAND’S
2010 ENTRY
posted by OLIVIER (BELGIUM)
Three times Maltese Eurovision representative Chiara (1998, 2005, 2009) is still committed very much to Eurovision. Several invitations across Europe since her last entry at the 2009 Eurovision are a prove that the singer is still loved a lot within the audience. Last year Chiara met Hera Björk, the 2010 Iceland represantive in Germany and they became good friends. Recently Chiara recorded her version of ‘Je ne sais quoi’ and performed it as resident singer during Hadd Ghalik (Your Sundy), one of Maltese most popular programs broadcasted every Sunday between 11am and 2pm. The audience seems of going crazy and this will surely give a...
KURT CALLEJA NEXT STOPS: BULGARIA,...
posted by SUBMITTED
After the first promotional tour to Baku in Azerbaijan, the next promotional tours set for Kurt Calleja will include Bulgaria and Lithuania. Both countries will perform in the second semi-final on Thursday 24th May 2012. BULGARIA The visit to Bulgaria will include several TV promotions and...
EUROVISION WAR IN MALTA
OVER NOTHING!
posted by TEAM
One of the countries where Eurovision is almost a matter of life is surely the Island of Malta. The Maltese selection for Eurovision and Eurovision itself is for the Maltese audience without any doubt one of the highlights of the year and 2012 is not changing it at all. However things are being played very hard these days. PBS is the official and legal broadcaster responsible for organising the national selection and selecting the maltese representative for the Eurovision Songcontest. In recent years the other main tv-stations, One TV and NET-TV (the respective tv-channels of the labour party and nationalist party) covered the Eurovision as...