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Finland In The Eurovision Song Contest 2002
Finland participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 with the song " Addicted to You" written by Maki Kolehmainen, Janina Frostell and Tracy Lipp. The song was performed by Laura. The Finnish broadcaster Yleisradio (Yle) returned to the Eurovision Song Contest after a one-year absence following their relegation from 2001 as one of the bottom six countries in the 2000 contest. Yle organised the national final ''Euroviisut 2002'' in order to select the Finnish entry for the 2002 contest in Tallinn, Estonia. Twelve entries were selected to compete in the national final on 26 January 2002 where votes from six regional juries first selected the top six to advance to a second round. In the second round, votes from the public selected "Addicted to You" performed by Laura as the winner with 70,580 votes. Finland competed in the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 25 May 2002. Performing during the show in position 13, Finland placed twentieth out of the 24 participating coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Voutilainen
Sanna Laura Voutilainen (born 17 May 1975 in Jyväskylä) is a Finnish pop singer. Career Voutilainen's debut single was called "Muuttanut oot maailmain" but her breakthrough came with the 1993 single "Kerran" which reached the Top Ten of the Finnish charts in January 1994. Also in 1994 the singer's debut album ''Laura Voutilainen'' was released selling in excess of 120,000 units; Voutilainen was consequently honored as Finland's top female vocalist with the Emma Award for 1994, an honor she again earned for the year 1996. Voutilainen has released a total of six albums and since 1999 she has hosted a TV show of her own. Voutilainen participated in the Finnish national preliminary round for Eurovision 2002 with the song " Addicted to You". With 46 points awarded by the jury and 36% of the public vote "Addicted to You" easily won the right to represent Finland at Eurovision 2002: despite heavy promotion - reportedly the most ever afforded a Finnish Eurovision entrant [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marko Reikop
Marko Reikop (born 19 June 1969 in Tallinn) is an Estonian TV host. He graduated from the Tallinn University on bibliography and is employed by radio and TV channels of the Estonian Public Broadcasting since 1991. He has presented the Estonian national finals for Eurovision Song Contest and made a live commentary for the event. From 2009 and on he presents the daily talk show '' Ringvaade'' together with Anu Välba (along with Grete Lõbu since autumn of 2013). In 2018 he was given Fifth Class of the Order of the White Star by the President of Estonia. Teenetemärkide kavalerid Reikop is openly gay. In September 2020, Reikop was the subject, along with ''Ringvaade'' cohost Grete Lõbu, of an anti-gay slur by |
Yle Fem
Yle Fem (''Yle Five'') was Yle's Finland-Swedish national television channel, providing television programmes in the Swedish language in Finland. It was a public-service channel principally intended for Finland's Swedish-speaking minority. Creating understanding over the language and culture border was also one of the channel's recognized objectives. History Yle Fem was launched in 1988 as a late-evening programming block called FST (Finlands Svenska Television, literally ''"Finland's Swedish Television"'') which was broadcast on Monday nights on Yle TV2 and on Tuesday nights on Yle TV1, after the conclusion of MTV3's Kymmenen Uutiset (10pm evening news) on either channel. It was relaunched as its own dedicated channel called YLE FST on 27 August 2001, and was called YLE FST5 from 2006 to 2012 but the name was changed because the viewers thought the name was only a combination of letters (Fem is Swedish for five.). Initially, Finlands Svenska Television's output was formerly inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Language
Finnish ( endonym: or ) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedish). In Sweden, both Finnish and Meänkieli (which has significant mutual intelligibility with Finnish) are official minority languages. The Kven language, which like Meänkieli is mutually intelligible with Finnish, is spoken in the Norwegian county Troms og Finnmark by a minority group of Finnish descent. Finnish is typologically agglutinative and uses almost exclusively suffixal affixation. Nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs are inflected depending on their role in the sentence. Sentences are normally formed with subject–verb–object word order, although the extensive use of inflection allows them to be ordered differently. Word order variations are often reserved for differences in information structure. Finnish orth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denmark In The Eurovision Song Contest 2002
Denmark participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 with the song "Tell Me Who You Are" written by Michael Ronson. The song was performed by Malene Mortensen. The Danish broadcaster DR organised the national final ''Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2002'' in order to select the Danish entry for the 2002 contest in Tallinn, Estonia. Ten songs competed in a televised show where "Vis mig hvem du er" performed by Malene Mortensen was the winner as decided upon through two rounds of jury voting and public voting. The song was later translated from Danish to English for the Eurovision Song Contest and was titled "Tell Me Who You Are". Denmark competed in the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 25 May 2002. Performing during the show in position 14, Denmark placed twenty-fourth (last) out of the 24 participating countries, scoring 7 points. Background Prior to the 2002 contest, Denmark had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest thirty-one times since its first entry in 1957 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden In The Eurovision Song Contest 2002
Sweden was represented by Afro-dite in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 with the song "Never Let It Go". Before Eurovision Melodifestivalen 2002 Sweden's pre-selection for Eurovision Song Contest 2002, Melodifestivalen 2002 was held on 1 March 2002. For the first time in the history of the competition, four heats were held around the country in various arenas around Sweden. A "second chance" round was also held. In total, 32 songs competed this year, compared to 10 the previous years. For the first time, songs could be sung in a language other than Swedish. Hosted by Kristin Kaspersen and Claes Åkeson, the final was won by Afro-dite after the disco group won both the televoting and jury voting. The song they performed was written by Marcos Ubeda and called "Never Let It Go". Heats and Winner's Choice round * The first heat took place on 19 January 2002. " Kom och ta mig" performed by Brandsta City Släckers and "Adrenaline" performed by Méndez qualified directly to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Logan (singer)
Seán Patrick Michael Sherrard (born 13 May 1954), better known by his stage name Johnny Logan, is an Irish singer and composer. He is known as being the only performer to have won the Eurovision Song Contest twice, in Eurovision Song Contest 1980, 1980 and Eurovision Song Contest 1987, 1987. He also composed the winning song in Eurovision Song Contest 1992, 1992. Logan first won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1980, with the song "What's Another Year" written by Shay Healy. In Eurovision Song Contest 1984, 1984, Logan composed the song "Terminal 3 (song), Terminal 3" which placed second at Eurovision, performed by Linda Martin. He won the contest for a second time in 1987 with "Hold Me Now (Johnny Logan song), Hold Me Now", which he also wrote himself. His third win came in 1992, as composer of Linda Martin's winning entry "Why Me? (Linda Martin song), Why Me?". Early life Johnny Logan was born Seán Patrick Michael Sherrard on 13 May 1954 in Frankston, Victoria, Frankston, nea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurovision Song Contest 1987
The Eurovision Song Contest 1987 was the 32nd edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Brussels, Belgium, following the country's victory at the with the song "J'aime la vie" by Sandra Kim. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster RTBF, Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française (RTBF), the contest was held at the Brussels Expo, Centenary Palace on 9 May 1987 (also Europe Day) and was hosted by French-Belgian singer Viktor Lazlo. Twenty-two countries took part in the contest with and returning to the competition after their absences the previous year. This set the record for the highest number of competing countries up until that point. The winner was with the song "Hold Me Now (Johnny Logan song), Hold Me Now" by Johnny Logan (singer), Johnny Logan. Johnny Logan had also won the contest, and he remains the only performer to have won the Eurovision Song Contest twice. Location The contest took place at the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurovision Song Contest 1980
The Eurovision Song Contest 1980 was the 25th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in The Hague, Netherlands, and was organised by host broadcaster Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) – which agreed to stage the event after , having won in both and , declined to host it for a second successive year – and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The contest was held at the Nederlands Congresgebouw on 19 April 1980 and was hosted by Dutch actress Marlous Fluitsma, although each song was introduced by a presenter from the participating nation (in some cases, this was the same person providing the commentary). Nineteen countries took part this year, with and the previous year's winner deciding not to participate, and returning. , notably, made its only appearance in the contest. The winner was with the song "What's Another Year", sung by Johnny Logan and written by Shay Healy. Location , the winner of the 1979 contest, declined to host it for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taina Kokkonen
Taina Kokkonen (born 15 May 1975 in Vantaa near Helsinki, Finland) is a former award-winning Finnish singer. She has performed on Italian TV, in Brussels, Argentina and Uruguay as part of the Tango 2000 educational tour. She first tried for the prestigious Tangomarkkinat competition in 1995, but did not reach the semi-finals. In 1996, she got through the Raisio semi-finals and was one of the 10 best. She rather frightened herself with her success: "I was in a great panic. I thought, do I really want this? . . . . I secretly hoped I wouldn't get any further. I have watched my performance on video and it shows how inexperienced I was." (Nyman, p. 175) She did not reach the Seinäjoki finals, and Saija Varjus became Tango Queen. Taina's third attempt was in 1998, when she reached the finals and became Tango Princess, losing the winning place to Kirsi Ranto. After a record four attempts, she finally became Tango Queen in 1999. In 2002, taking advantage of the new rule that so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susie Päivärinta
Susanne Elisabeth "Susie" Päivärinta (also ''Sussie'', born 10 May 1964) is a Swedish singer and artist of Finnish ancestry. She scored a number of hits in the 1980s and early 1990s with the duo Lili & Susie, with her sister Lili Päivärinta. Their most famous was their 1987 song "Oh Mama" which spent six weeks in the top five of the Swedish singles chart. They also competed at Melodifestivalen 1989 and in the Eurovision Song Contest with "Okey okey". In 1990, their song ''What's the Colour of Love'' also hit the top 5. The duo reunited in 2008 and competed at Melodifestivalen 2009 with the song ''Show Me Heaven'', which peaked at number 6 in the Swedish singles chart. Päivärinta wrote ''C'est la vie! It's Alright!'', performed by Lucia Perez, and ''Diamonds'', performed by Melissa, which were both featured at Eurovision Song Contest 2011. Päivärinta helped write ''Baby Doll'' by the bad Top Cats, which was selected for Melodifestivalen 2012 and reached 20 on the Swed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risto Asikainen
Risto Asikainen (born 20 August 1958, Nurmijärvi) is a Finnish record producer, songwriter and musician. He became known to the general public from the Finnish version of the reality television show "Popstars". In the show he appeared as a judge and also wrote and produced music for the Popstars bands. In Finland, Asikainen has worked behind numerous successful pop-artists and bands, such as Nylon Beat, S.E.S., Kaija Koo, Dingo, Arja Koriseva, Kari Tapio, Gimmel and Robin. Asikainen is signed as a writer to Elements Music Elements Music is an independent music publishing and producer management company based in Helsinki, Finland. Elements Music has had a multitude of number one albums and singles domestically as well as internationally and has been awarded the "Mus .... References 1958 births Living people Finnish songwriters {{Finland-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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