EUROFEST 2012: ALYONA’S FIRS...

Alyona Lanskaya is the winner of the Eurofest 2012 and will represent Belarus in the second semifinal of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest edition. Immediately after the victory and her press conference he gave in video, her first comment in Russian. Alyona thanked everyone for the support and...

EUROFEST 2012: GUEST PERFORMANCES

The Eurofest 2012 was a fast show with lots of stars performing. The audience had a great time and so did we. Let’s see who did the best tonight. We begin with 12 points to Philip Kirkorov: he loves the stage and the stage loves him, he felt so alive while performing (live) and he is...

EUROFEST 2012: WINNER’S PRES...

Immediately after the show the winner went to the press area giving her first press conference as a winner. Alyona thanked everyone and congratulated her participants although she didn’t realize she won during the announcement because of excitement. She wanted to thank every fan an she...

BELARUS DECIDED 2012:
ALYONA TO BAKU

The 2012 edition of Eurofest is now over, five acts bid for Baku 2012 Eurovision Song Contest and we have a winner: Alyona Lanskaya wins the show and will represent the country in the Baku 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. Congratulations to oikotimes.com readers for predicting the winner through our live report poll during the show. It’s now 10/10 of national final 2012 winners. INFO ABOUT THE WINNER Alyona Lanskaya was born on September 7, 1985 in the city of Mogilev. She is the Honoured Artist of the Republic of Belarus; a laureate of music contests “Sarandev-2008” (Bulgaria), “European Cup-2009” (Russia); the winner of the...

LIVE FROM MINSK: BELARUS DECIDES 2...

Welcome to the Eurofest 2012 Final, the show through which Belarus will decide its representative for the Baku 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. The show will start at 20:00 CET and will be available by regional and satellite channels also on the BTRC website and through eurovision.tv web...

EUROFEST 2012: NOT MEETING THE PRE...

Under personal decision of the artists lots of guests didn’t attend the press area, not speaking to the press? Lack of time or attitude? who knows… Ruslana (Ukraine 2004), Sakis Rouvas (Greece 2004, 2009), Ell & Nikki (Azerbaijan 2011), Marija Serifovic (Serbia 2007) and...

EUROFEST 2012:
OIKOTIMES ON ...

During the break of the show the BTRC camera crew started asking the international media questions for the show and Belarus. The video will be shortly available on www.trv.by but here is a small sneak preview of what I told TVR Belarus about the show. The main frames were that the Belarusian...

EUROFEST 2012:
UZARI PRESS CONFERENCE

Eurofest 2012 finalist, Uzari came to the press area and gave his press conference. At first he said that his name Uzari, is very common in Eastern Europe and similar to Yuri. He also said that his vocal problems last night are now gone and he will be ready for tonight. He’s not afraid of his performance tonight as been a winner isn’t always the trophies but what your close persons and family think of you. He considers as a victory though the deal with a UK record label which is going to release his debut album soon. The song was difficult for him as it had to be in English, a language which Uzari doesn’t speak at all. He...

EUROFEST 2012:
LYS ASSIA

Lys Assia, the very first winner of the Eurovision Song Contest is now rehearsing followed by her press conference. She stopped to the press representatives asking for an apology for the delay explaining she lost her connection flight because of bad weather and stayed in Vienna for almost 20...

EUROFEST 2012: SAKIS ROUVAS

SAKIS ROUVAS REHEARSAL Right on time for Sakis Rouvas to have his rehearsal. Sakis is rehearsing with four female dancers from Belarus singing the 2009 Eurovision entry “This is our night” and the English version of “+ Se Thelo” known as “Keep on moving”...

EUROFEST 2012:
PERFORMANCE SECRETS

When Belarusian artists want to have a show they make impressive and low cost things on stage giving the impression of a huge show on stage. In this post and live from Minsk we gathered the five elements and surprises the participants will have tomorrow evening. First of all Alyona: For me she has the best television effect with the metallic moon hanging from the sealing and a dancer doing acrobatics. Simple effective and with the vocal performance of the singer, will definitely win the jury voting. Second is Gunesh, who has a rock band with her and especially the guitar and his long blond hair are waving up and down. The problem here is...

EUROFEST 2012: DRESS REHEARSAL 1

Welcome to the Eurofest 2012 National Final Dress Rehearsal A. Everything is ready for the show to start at 18:00 CET (already counting 12 minutes of delay). In the meantime you can read the first day reports and view amazing photo galleries here. For the past 2 and a half hours oikotimescom...