Show #184

New music this week from the incredible Dutch singer and Common Linnets member Ilse DeLange. We head north to Iceland for three from the archives in the triple play, whilst your chosen fan favourite takes us in the opposite direction to the mediterranean. Plus all of this weeks top Eurovision News stories…

This Weeks Highlights

Ilse DeLange

New Music

Ilse Annoeska de Lange, better known as Ilse DeLange, is a Dutch country and pop rock singer-songwriter. As a member of The Common Linnets, she finished in second place at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014.

Destiny

Fan Favourite

Destiny Chukunyere is a Maltese singer who won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015. She won the second season of the Maltese version of The X Factor and was chosen to represent Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam with the song 'All of My Love'. That was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and instead she took part in 2021 with the song 'Je me casse'

Iceland has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 34 times since its debut in 1986, missing only two contests since then, in 1998 and 2002, when prevented from competing due to finishing outside qualification places the preceding years. The country’s best result is second place, which it achieved with Selma in 1999 and Yohanna in 2009. The Icelandic broadcaster for the contest is Ríkisútvarpið (RÚV), which also broadcasts Iceland’s national selection competition, Söngvakeppnin. Iceland has achieved a total of seven top ten placements, with the others being Stjórnin finishing fourth (1990), Heart 2 Heart seventh (1992), Birgitta eighth (2003), Hatari tenth (2019) and Daði og Gagnamagnið fourth (2021). Since the introduction of the semi-final round in 2004, Iceland has failed to qualify for the final seven times, including four years consecutively (2015–18). As of 2022, Iceland is the only Nordic country that is yet to win the contest.

Birgitta Haukdal Brynjarsdóttir, also known by her mononym Birgitta, is an Icelandic singer. She rose to domestic media prominence as the lead singer of pop band Írafár. Birgitta represented Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 with the song “Open Your Heart”, tying in eighth place with the Spanish contestant Beth with 81 points.

She competed in the Icelandic pre-qualifying for the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, with the song “Mynd Af Þér” or “Picture of you” and, in a duo with Magni Ásgeirsson, reached the finals of the Icelandic qualifying for Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with the song, “Núna veit ég” but did not win.

In 2013, she once again tried her luck in Söngvakeppni. This time, her entry was called Meðal Andanna.

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