April, 2004
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| 29.04.2004 |
- The first German winner of the Eurovision - female singer Nicole has declared that Max, most likely, will not become the winner of the Eurovision 2004. At the same time Nicole has recognized, that the singer has very good voice. Despite of this pessimistic statement, song Can’t Wait Until Tonight with which Max will acted at Contest, became popular enough . It is already sold more than 200 000 copies of song.
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| 28.04.2004 |
- Marta Roure has declared what to be the first representative of Andorra and to be the first on the Eurovision who will sing on Сatalan language is the big responsibility. To present Andorra so well as far as it is possible - main objective of the female singer. Besides it, Marta Roure, certainly, hopes to reach the final . By the way, the female singer also has declared, that she did not hear anybody from other participants of the Contest. Marta wants to keep it as a surprise.
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| 27.04.2004 |
- According to a website esctoday.com, decoration of stage of Abdi Ipekçi Sport Hall, where the 49-th Eurovision Song Contest 2004 will be carried out, is in full swing. The stage should be completely ready before 5-th May when delegations of countries - participants will arrive to Istanbul.
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| 26.04.2004 |
- The drummer of Estonian group Neiokösö, Peeter Jögisoo has promised to surprise spectators during performance on May, 12 at Istanbul. Jögisoo said, that performance of Estonia will become “ small shock therapy ” for spectators.
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| 24.04.2004 |
- Supervisor of EBU, Svante Stockselius has told about a voting procedure of this year. Most important moments - time of televoting will been increased from 5 till 10 minutes; results of voting will not declare during the Qualifier Round, but 10 countries, which have reached the final, will been named only ; all 36 countries will award points in alphabetic order during the Grand-Final.
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| 23.04.2004 |
- According to Slovene tabloid Lady, representatives of Slovenia, members of duet Platin - Simon and Diana - are going to get married. Ceremony should take place on May, 13 on the white boat just off coast of Istanbul. It will be the first wedding which has been carried out on the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 (if, certainly, the message of a tabloid was true).
- According to EBU, the press centre of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 will be placed outside of stadium Abdi Ipekçi, in tents. The lack of place inside the stadium became the reason of acceptance of such decision.
- The official website of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 - eurovision.tv - has been updated. There are the information about participants, texts of songs, news and many other things on it now.
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| 22.04.2004 |
- According to a website esctoday.com, macedonian delegation has some financial problems. Besides it, the macedonian representative - Tose Proeski - thinks to refuse from participation on the Eurovision Song Contest 2004. Read more...
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| 21.04.2004 |
- The representative of Greece, Sakis Rouvas has released a new version of song Shake It.
- The representative of Portugal, the female singer Sofia has released the final version of her song, Foi Magia.
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| 20.04.2004 |
- The representative of Bosnia, the singer Deen will go to Istanbul with promo tour. He will visit some television broadcasting stations and will meet with journalists on April, 21 in the Bosnian consulate at Istanbul. Besides that Deen has released CD with song In The Disco. Also there are a videoclip, biographies of the singer and the author songs, a history of performances of Bosnia-Herzegovina on the Eurovision on the CD.
- Representatives of Lithuania, Linas & Simona has opened their own website, linasandsimona.lt.
- On April, 17 the Norwegian fans of the Eurovision ( OGAE Norway ) had met in Oslo and decided to find out, who from participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 is pleasant more to them. Read more...
- One of participants of the Dutch selection competition, André Kuik, has decided to sell dresses (in which his back-vocalists acted) on charitable auction. The singer plans to transfer to the Belarus schools all collected money. Read more...
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| 17.04.2004 |
- Representatives of Estonia - group Neiokösö - have released CD with song Tii. The disk contains different versions of song plus a videoclip.
- Representatives of Malta - duet Julie & Ludwig - within the framework of the promo-tour have visited Portugal.
- At present time decorators finish external decorations of complex Abdi Ipekçi, where the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 will be carried out. Columns of a complex has painted in color of a turkish flag already. Also the street has been decorated on which the sport center is located . Soon decorators will decorate stage.
- Australian company SBS which has expressed desire to show the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 on its continent, has launched website devoted to the contest - http://www.sbs.com.au/eurovision/des.php3.
- Slovenian company RTVSLO has decided to cut down the expenses on participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004. RTVSLO will not finance a Slovenian support team which will go on the Eurovision. Also RTVSLO will not finance filming of a clip on song Stay Forever of duet Platin. The official Slovenian delegation also will be smaller. Now the duet searches for sponsors who will agree to finance filming of a clip.
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| 15.04.2004 |
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| 14.04.2004 |
- According to a website esctoday.com the representative of Greece - Sakis Rouvas - will visit Helsinki, Finland on April, 14, where he will give some interview and will act with a concert at one of night clubs of city.
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| 13.04.2004 |
- The person whom on May, 15 on the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 will declare results of German voting is named. It will Thomas Anders, the former participant of group Modern Talking.
- According to a website esctoday.com representatives of Latvia, Ivo Fomins & Tomass Kleins will visit some countries with the purpose to promote their song - Dziesma par Laimi. Musicians have decided to begin this tour at Lithuania. Also the Latvian broadcaster - LTV has suggested to duet to record their song on several languages - Estonian, Lithuanian, German, Ukrainian and English.
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| 08.04.2004 |
- According to a website esctoday.com only countries, which have agreed to broadcast qualifier round of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 will be able vote in it. Read more...
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| 05.04.2004 |
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| 04.04.2004 |
- Another two mp3-versions of songs from the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 - a song À Chaque Pas of Jonatan Cerrada, representative of France, and song Shake It of Sakis Rouvas, the representative of Greece available to download on a website eurovisionturkey.net now. The new version of song For Real of group Athena - representatives of Turkey - is also available. But I think that the old version was better...
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| 02.04.2004 |
- April Fools’ jokes are popular not only at Russia. David D’Or had been hoaxed during participation on radio programm. Read more...
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