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For former participant of Swedish Idol, Anna Bergendahl, her Melodifestivalen/Eurovision journey in 2010 was a rollercoaster without comparison.She started out in the Melodifestivalen semi final as an almost unnoticed newcomer, surprised everybody by going straight to the final were she became the frontrunner to win, and she managed to live up to those expectations when she became the Swedish representative to Oslo.
As the representative of mighty power Sweden, she was the only one in her team who even considered it a possibility not to make it out of the semi final, and therefore it came as a huge shock for both the Swedish delegation and the entire Swedish audience when she only finished in 11th place, just five points short of a spot in the final. This was the first, and to date only, time when Sweden has failed to qualify for a Eurovision final.
How much blame did she feel from the spoiled Swedish audience, and how did this affect her career? Was this why she decided to study medicine instead of continuing with her music, and if so, what made her return to the contest nine years later to become an audience and fan favourite with her two consecutive entries "Ashes to Ashes" and "Kingdom Come"?
Legend: Anna Bergendahl
Song: This Is My Life (Sweden 2010)
Host: Emil Löfström
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In 1995, young singer Liora Simon was paired up with the song "Amen" by super producer Shlomo Zach, unknowing that the composer Moshe Datz had changed his mind and wanted to sing the song himself as Duo Datz when it got accepted to the Israeli preselection Kdam. Nevertheless, she competed and won, beating among others future winner Dana International, and got to represent Israel in Dublin, reaching a respectable 8th place. However, the success wasn't only positive as it pigeon-holed her into a genre that she didn't quite feel at home in, and the singer, who was born to Libyan parents, has had to fight to be able to make the kind of oriental music she wants. The Israeli market couldn't really handle the transformation and Liora left for Argentina, were she developed her own style, which unfortunately was eclipsed by a new artist with a very similar style, Shakira. Today Liora is a yoga teacher who lives in the present and hardly remembers important parts of her past, such as the fact that she recorded a French version of "Amen".
Legend: Liora
Song: Amen (Israel 1995)
Host: Emil Löfström
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Petra Frey requested, and Emil delivers. This episode features the queen, the diva, the winner, the legend, the hero, the superstar extraordinaire Charlotte Perrelli, who was the winner of the very last Eurovision of the previous century in Jerusalem in 1999 for Sweden with "Take Me to Your Heaven" under her then name of Charlotte Nilsson. In contrast to the high-flying title of her winning song and her undisputed royal status in the Eurovision world, she and Emil have a very nice, warm and down-to-earth conversation about her career in the Eurovision limelight. This is the story of love and compassion only La Perrelli can tell.
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Emil has a chat with Felix ''Daphne'' Blass, one of the three lovely air stewardesses who made up the drag act Sestre, that represented Slovenia in 2002. Despite being a rather controversial choice they became a number one hit in Slovenia, and drew a lot of attention in Tallinn. Their brave statement opened doors for other drag acts and the LGBT community in general. We get to listen to the story of how Sestre was formed, how they got and won with the song and their week at the Eurovision, where a single Felix took his air stewardess job seriously and offered full service.
Legend: Sestre
Song: Samo Ljubezen (Slovenia 2002)
Host: Emil Löfström
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Legend: Ping Pong
Song: Sameach (Israel 2000)
Four youngsters with an open minded and peaceful message went balagan. Hear Roy Arad from the group Ping Pong tell the story behind the first song in the new millennium, why they waved Syrian flags and delivered Eurovision's first boy-on-boy kiss on stage, and what happened after they went back home to Israel like defeated politicians.
Host: Emil Löfström
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Finland had never done particularly well in the Eurovision, and many attributed this to the Finnish language, which was considered harsh and foreign. However, in 1977, Monica Aspelund and the song "Lapponia" were predicted to do well, despite the fact that the rule forcing entries to be sung in a native tongue had just been reintroduced, with some controversial exceptions. Languages seem to be somewhat of a theme for the Finnish singer, and "Lapponia" was recorded in six different languages. In this episode she tells Emil and the listeners about how she almost made a coup and sang the song in Swedish at Eurovision, why she dislikes parts of her own Finnish lyrics to the song nowadays, and she graciously lets us listen to pieces of several songs from her upcoming album, to be released later in 2020, which marks 60 years since the start of her career!
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