OGAE Azerbaijan

Semi-Final 1 poll

After an intense week of rehearsals in Tel Aviv, tonight is the live recording and broadcast of Semi-Final 1, where the first 17 acts will perform for your votes, and we’ll get to see part of the Spanish, French and Israeli act as well. The acts for tonight’s Semi-Final 1 are listed below, tell us …

Orange Carpet

OGAE Azerbaijan was at the Eurovision 2019 Orange Carpet, where we managed to talk to more than half the contestants of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Check out the contestants’ thoughts on Chingiz’ entry, they own journey, and some messages for their fans:

Semi-Final 2 rehearsals

The first round of rehearsals on the Eurovision stage for Semi-Final 2 are now over, with all 18 acts having had their 30 minutes to run through their performances to see if vocals, dancing, special effect, camera blocking etc were all working as they should, and the results for the viewers watching were as envisioned. …

Semi-Final 1 rehearsals

The final preparations for Eurovision in Tel Aviv has started, and over the weekend the contestants of Semi-Final 1 had their first round of rehearsals on the Eurovision stage, with the rehearsal order usually follows the running order. Day 1 First on stage, Saturday morning, was Cyprus, who are taking full advantage of once again …

We didn’t know… until we interviewed Serhat

He is a Eurovision legend… after representing San Marino in 2016, the Turkish singer will once again represent San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest, this time in Tel Aviv. We managed snatch an interview with him and get to know him better, as he tells us of his music history, from zero to hero. …

OGAE Azerbaijan results revealed

This time, it is OGAE Azerbaijan’s turn to reveal its results. So, ‘Hello Europe, it is Azerbaijan calling’! While Austria, Croatia, Georgia, Germany, Israel, Moldova, Montenegro and Poland got 0 points from fans, Australia, Finland, and Ireland each got 2 points overall from the Azerbaijani fans. Armenia, North Macedonia, Serbia and UK got 3 points …

PreParty Riga Recap

Last weekend, the 6th annual Eurovision PreParty Riga took place, inviting fans and press for a chance to meet and see some of this year’s Eurovision artists perform live on stage in the Crystal Club in Riga. The line-up this year was: Carousel, Latvia’s Eurovision representative this year – Sab墨ne 沤uga, M膩rcis Vasi募evskis, Sta艈islavs Judins …

‘We do everything together’ – Exclusive interview with Zala & Ga拧per

We managed to snatch an interview with Zala and Ga拧per and are amazed by their answers. Yesterday Ga拧per turned 23, making the duo one of the youngest performers in the Eurovision Song Contest this year. They will represent Slovenia with their electro-pop song ‘Sebi’. Can you tell us who are Zala Kralj & Ga拧per 艩antl? …

From Iceland with love! Exclusive interview with Hatari

Icelanders were probably the first to call for a boycott of Eurovision after Netta’s victory ‘Toy’ and her political message: ‘Next year in Jerusalem’. 脕rni Steingr铆mur Sigur冒sson started a petition about this and managed to get 18,000 signatures during May last year. However, despite the popularity of the petition, Skarph茅冒inn Gu冒mundsson, program director at RUV, …

KEiiNO ‘shows us the light’ in an exclusive interview

This year, 10 acts were fighting for the rights to represent Norway at Eurovision and it is KEiiNO who will carry the name of Norway to Tel Aviv. The trio consist of Tom Hugo, Fred Buljo, who represents the Norwegian Sami people, as well as Alexandra Rotan, who previously has competed in Melodi Grand Prix, …