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Energy (Nuša Derenda Song)
Slovenia returned to the Eurovision Song Contest in 2001 with Nuša Derenda and the song "Energy". The song was selected as the Slovene entry after it won the Slovene national final, EMA 2001. Before Eurovision EMA 2001 ''EMA 2001'' was the 6th edition of the Slovenian national final format '' Evrovizijska Melodija (EMA)''. The competition was used by RTV Slovenija to select Slovenia's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2001. Format EMA 2001 consisted of a semi final on 23 February 2001 and a final on 24 February 2001. Twenty-two artists competed in EMA 2001. In the semi-final, 12 songs qualified to the final as six songs were selected by the Slovenian public and the other six songs were selected by the jury. In the final, the combination of points from a public vote, an expert jury and a jury composed of members from the Entertainment Program of RTV Slovenija determined the winner. Semi-final The semi-final of EMA 2001 took place on 23 February 2001 at the RTV Slovenij ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuša Derenda
Nuša Derenda (, born Anuška Žnideršič on March 30, 1969 in Brežice, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Slovenian singer who represented Slovenia at the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen, Denmark where she achieved 7th place. Biography At the age of two and a half, Derenda's parents became aware of her singing talent. She always loved to sing and perform in front of an audience. Music was an integral part of her childhood. She sang in choruses, performed as a soloist, attended music school, and learned to play the accordion. Shortly before finishing primary school, Nuša joined a band of young musicians. Although Derenda originally wanted to become a preschool teacher and work part-time in a nursery school for a year, she continued to sing with the band and traveled throughout Europe. In 1990, her band broke up and Nuša, along with her partner Frenk, established a new group. By that time they had already become professional and toured Yugoslavia, Germany, and Swit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovenia In The Eurovision Song Contest
Slovenia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 27 times since its debut in , having hosted a qualification round (Kvalifikacija za Millstreet) in Ljubljana for seven countries due to the influx of new nations wishing to join the Eurovision Song Contest. Having only missed the event twice in and due to the relegation rule after a poor average score in the 1990s, Slovenia's best result is seventh position achieved on two occasions; in with "Prisluhni mi" performed by Darja Švajger and in with Nuša Derenda and "Energy". Since the introduction of the semi-finals in , Slovenia has qualified for the final on seven occasions. As of , Slovenia has not made it to the top ten since their seventh place finish in 2001, only making it to the thirteenth position in and . History Early participation After the fall of Communism across Europe in the early 1990s and the Dissolution of Yugoslavia, newly independent Slovenia was one of seven countries that had emerged from the E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurovision Song Contest 1995
The Eurovision Song Contest 1995 was the 40th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 13 May 1995 at the Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster (RTÉ) and presented by Irish journalist and television presenter Mary Kennedy, the contest was held in Ireland following the country's victory at the with the song "Rock 'n' Roll Kids" by Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan. It was the third consecutive contest to be held in Ireland, and the second consecutive edition to be held in the Point Theatre in Dublin. Twenty-three countries participated in the contest; , , , the , , and were relegated as the lowest-scoring countries in the previous edition, and were replaced by , , , and , returning after being relegated following the . The winner was with the song "", composed by Rolf Løvland, written by Petter Skavlan and performed by Secret Garden. , , and Denmark rounded out the top five, with Spain achi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prisluhni Mi
Slovenia was represented by Darja Švajger with the song "Prisluhni mi" in the Eurovision Song Contest 1995. Before Eurovision Slovenski izbor za pesem Evrovizije 1995 Slovenski izbor za pesem Evrovizije 1995 took place on 18 February 1995 at the RTV Slovenija studios in Ljubljana, hosted by Saša Gerdej. A jury vote from twelve radio stations in Slovenia determined the winner. At Eurovision On the night of the contest, Darja Švajger performed 20th in the running order, following Denmark and preceding Israel. At the close of voting she received 84 points, placing 7th in a field of 23. This was, and still is as of 2022, Slovenia's joint-best placing at the contest, shared with 2001 Slovenian entry, "Energy", performed by Nuša Derenda. The Slovene jury awarded its 12 points to Croatia. Voting References {{Eurovision Song Contest 1995 1995 Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1995 Eurovision The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darja Švajger
Darja Švajger (born 16 June 1965 in Maribor, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia) is one of Slovenia's most popular singers, perhaps best known internationally for having represented her country in the Eurovision Song Contest on two occasions. Early life Music entered Darja's life when she was still a child. After finishing secondary school, she entered the College of Music and attended art classes in Graz, Austria, where she studied classical solo singing and jazz. In 1997, she graduated magna cum laude. Already during her studies she had started performing as a solo vocalist with various bands and symphony orchestras. Since 1992 she has been engaged in several projects of the Maribor National Drama Theatre, Slovene National Theatre in Maribor. In 1993, the international jury of the ''Melodies of the Sea and the Sun'' pop music festival, held in Koper, awarded her first prize in the Slovenian section of the international category. Her first album, ''In the Arms of the Night'', soon fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous member state of the European Union. Warsaw is the nation's capital and largest metropolis. Other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin. Poland has a temperate transitional climate and its territory traverses the Central European Plain, extending from Baltic Sea in the north to Sudeten and Carpathian Mountains in the south. The longest Polish river is the Vistula, and Poland's highest point is Mount Rysy, situated in the Tatra mountain range of the Carpathians. The country is bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. It also shares maritime boundaries with Denmark and Sweden. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. The total area of the United Kingdom is , with an estimated 2020 population of more than 67 million people. The United Kingdom has evolved from a series of annexations, unions and separations of constituent countries over several hundred years. The Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of England (which included Wales, annexed in 1542) and the Kingdom of Scotland in 170 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miša Molk
Miša Molk (born 6 September 1954) is a Slovenian journalist and television personality. Her professional career has always been tied to the television business and RTV Slovenija. Career Born in Vrhnika, Molk graduated from the Ljubljana Faculty of Social Sciences. She is well known in Slovenia as a television presenter, producer, editor and journalist. She is also connected to the Eurovision Song Contest and is a member of the ''Reference Group'' in the European Broadcasting Union. 1976–1989 *Writing for national newspapers and magazine ''RTV SLO'' *Youth Programme/weekly: presenter and author *Entertainment Programme: TV quiz about international history and culture *Eurovision Song Contest: commentator (1986, 1987 and 1989), Yugoslav spokesperson (1988) *Song festivals: presenter 1984–1989 Student Center of Ljubljana University *Manager of activities of students' interests, art courses, literary meetings, public tribunes about students' life and problems, organizin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EMA (TV Series)
Slovenia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 27 times since its debut in , having hosted a qualification round (Kvalifikacija za Millstreet) in Ljubljana for seven countries due to the influx of new nations wishing to join the Eurovision Song Contest. Having only missed the event twice in and due to the relegation rule after a poor average score in the 1990s, Slovenia's best result is seventh position achieved on two occasions; in with "Prisluhni mi" performed by Darja Švajger and in with Nuša Derenda and "Energy". Since the introduction of the semi-finals in , Slovenia has qualified for the final on seven occasions. As of , Slovenia has not made it to the top ten since their seventh place finish in 2001, only making it to the thirteenth position in and . History Early participation After the fall of Communism across Europe in the early 1990s and the Dissolution of Yugoslavia, newly independent Slovenia was one of seven countries that had emerged from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karmen Stavec
Karmen Stavec (born 21 December 1973) is a Slovene musician and pop singer. Early years Karmen was born in West Berlin, at that time part of West Germany, to Slovene parents. After graduation she came to Domžale, Slovenia, where she joined the dance duo "4 Fun". She also began to study Germanic studies at the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Ljubljana. In 1998 she started her own solo career. Music career She has participated four times in Slovene national selection, called "EMA" for the Eurovision song contest in 1998 (with Patrik Greblo), EMA 2001, EMA 2002 and EMA 2003. In 2002, at the EMA, she took second place behind the trio Sestre ("The Sisters"), although she received the highest number of points from televoting. Her song, "Še in še" won the National Finals Song Contest. In 2003 she won, and she represented Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 The Eurovision Song Contest 2003 was the 48th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1X Band
1x Band was a musical band active from 1991 to 1997. It represented Slovenia for the first time at the Eurovision Song Contest 1993 The Eurovision Song Contest 1993 was the 38th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Millstreet, Ireland, following the country's victory at the with the song " Why Me?" by Linda Martin. Organised by the European Broadcastin .... Their singer, Cole Moretti, sang the song Tih deževen dan, which finished in 22nd place, scoring 9 points. References Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Slovenia Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1993 {{Europe-band-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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