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Macedonia In The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016
North Macedonia participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016 which took place on 20 November 2016, in Valletta, Malta, under the provisional reference of "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia". The Macedonian broadcaster Macedonian Radio Television (MRT) was responsible for organising their entry for the contest. Martija Stanojković was internally selected to represent North Macedonia with the song "Love Will Lead Our Way". Background Prior to the 2016 Contest, North Macedonia had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest eleven times, under the provisional reference of "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", since its debut at the inaugural contest in . North Macedonia were absent twice from the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in and . They have never won the contest, with their best results being at the and , represented by the duo Rosica Kulakova and Dimitar Stojmenovski, and Bobi Andonov respectively, achieving fifth place. Before Junior Eurovision Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valletta
Valletta (, mt, il-Belt Valletta, ) is an Local councils of Malta, administrative unit and capital city, capital of Malta. Located on the Malta (island), main island, between Marsamxett Harbour to the west and the Grand Harbour to the east, its population within administrative limits in 2014 was 6,444. According to the data from 2020 by Eurostat, the Functional Urban Area and metropolitan region covered the whole island and has a population of 480,134. Valletta is the southernmost capital of Europe, and at just , it is the European Union's smallest capital city. Valletta's 16th-century buildings were constructed by the Hospitaller Malta, Knights Hospitaller. The city was named after Jean Parisot de Valette, who succeeded in defending the island from an Ottoman invasion during the Great Siege of Malta. The city is Baroque architecture, Baroque in character, with elements of Mannerist architecture#Mannerist architecture, Mannerist, Neoclassical architecture, Neo-Classical and Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulgaria In The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016
Bulgaria participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016. Their entrant was selected through the televised national selection "Decata na Bulgaria sa super", organised by the Bulgarian broadcaster Bulgarian National Television (BNT). Lidia Ganeva won the national selection and she got the right to represent Bulgaria in the contest. Ganeva performed the song "Magical Day (Valsheben den)" at the contest. In the final, Bulgaria performed in position 6 and placed 9th out of the 17 participating countries, scoring 161 points. Before Junior Eurovision ''Decata na Bulgaria sa super'' The singer who performed the Bulgarian entry for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016 was selected through the reality singing competition ("The children of Bulgaria are awesome"). Bulgarian broadcaster BNT opened submissions for singers aged between 9–14 to send their audio or video recordings to the BNT team. After the deadline on 10 May 2016, a professional jury of music experts selected t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 In The Republic Of Macedonia
The following lists events from the year 2016 in the Republic of Macedonia. Incumbents * President: Gjorge Ivanov * Prime Minister: Nikola Gruevski (until 18 January); Emil Dimitriev Events January *18 January – Emil Dimitriev took over as prime minister. April *7 April - Opposition leader Zoran Zaev pledges to boycott the parliamentary elections due to a lack of government reform. *10 April - Macedonian police tear gas refugees near the border with Greece. *13 April - Several people are injured in clashes to police and thousands of protesters in Skopje as some storm President Gjorge Ivanov's office. *15 April - Protests intensify after lawmakers agree to call for snap elections on June 5. Opposition leader Zaev vowed to boycott the election. *17 April - Protests continue after Ivanov suspends an investigation into alleged corruption of a number of politicians. *18 April - Macedonia enters its second week of protests after Ivanov pardons politicians involved in wiretapping ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jedward
John and Edward Grimes (born 16 October 1991), collectively known as Jedward (a portmanteau of their first names), are an Irish singing and television presenting duo. They are identical twins who first appeared as John & Edward in the sixth series of ''The X Factor'' in 2009, generating a phenomenon of ironic popularity described as "the Jedward paradox". They finished in sixth place and were managed by Louis Walsh, who was their mentor during ''The X Factor''. Jedward have released four studio albums: ''Planet Jedward'' (2010), ''Victory'' (2011), '' Young Love'' (2012), and ''Voice of a Rebel'' (2019). Their first two albums went double platinum in Ireland. They have released several singles, including "Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)", " Bad Behaviour", "Lipstick", with which they represented Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf, and "Waterline", with which they represented Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku. Jedward are also known for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christer Björkman
Christer Samuel Björkman (; born 25 August 1957) is a Swedish singer and television producer. He represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1992 with the song "I morgon är en annan dag". From 2002 to 2021, he served as a producer of Melodifestivalen, and remained an important figure in Melodifestivalen and the Eurovision Song Contest. He stepped down from this position after Melodifestivalen 2021, and is currently working at Voxovation, a Los Angeles-based company that focuses on expanding the Eurovision Song Contest brand into other markets. Biography Björkman was born in Borås as the son of gaming entrepreneur Ulla Björkman (b. 1939). He never met his father while he was alive. He began working as a hairdresser, and soon had his own hair salon in Borås. In 1985, Björkman started his entertainment career by recording a song called "Våga och vinn", which was produced by Bruno Glenmark. Björkman won Melodifestivalen 1992 with "I morgon är en annan dag", and rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockholm
Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people live in the Stockholm Municipality, municipality, with 1.6 million in the Stockholm urban area, urban area, and 2.4 million in the Metropolitan Stockholm, metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Mälaren, Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. It is also the county seat of Stockholm County. For several hundred years, Stockholm was the capital of Finland as well (), which then was a part of Sweden. The population of the municipality of Stockholm is expected to reach o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MRT 1
MRT 1 (МРТ 1) is a television station in North Macedonia owned and operated by Macedonian Radio-Television. Current line-up News shows *'' Dnevnik MRT'' - main news at 10:00, 17:00, 19:30, and 23:00 *''MRT Vesti'' - news, runs at 13:00, and 15:00 MRT Production * ''Macedonia through antiquity'' * ''Macedonia through history'' * ''Macedonia under Ottoman rule'' * ''20 years old Macedonian independence'' * ''A century exile'' * ''Makedonski narodni prikazni'' (Македонски народни приказни) * ''Skopje continues'' * ''Witnesses'' * ''IMRO'' * ''Ohrid Archbishopric'' Entertainment * ''Trotoar'' (Тротоар) * ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'' (Рен и Стимби шоу) * ''Stisni play'' (Стисни плеj) * ''Iselenički džuboks'' (Иселенички Џубокс) * ''SpongeBob SquarePants (Сунѓерот Боб Панталоновски)'' * ''sonic the hedgehog (Eжот соник) (season 1 and 2)'' * ''Prespav (Преспав)'' * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland In The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016
Poland participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016 which took place on 20 November 2016, in Valletta, Malta. The Polish broadcaster Telewizja Polska (TVP) was responsible for organising their entry for the contest. A national final of nine competing acts participated in a televised production where the winner was determined by a 50/50 combination of votes from jury members made up of music professionals and a public telephone vote. On 15 October 2016, Olivia Wieczorek was selected to represent Poland with the song "Nie zapomnij". Poland returned to the contest after being absent from the contest since their last appearance in . Background Prior to the 2016 Contest, Poland had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest twice in and , and withdrew from participation between and . They have never won the contest, only finishing in last place in 2003. Before Junior Eurovision The Polish broadcaster announced on 13 July 2016, that they would be making their retur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Bieber
Justin Drew Bieber ( ; born March 1, 1994) is a Canadian singer. Bieber is recognized for his genre-melding musicianship and has played an influential role in modern-day popular music. He was discovered by American record executive Scooter Braun and signed with RBMG Records in 2008, gaining recognition with the release of his debut seven-track EP '' My World'' (2009) and soon establishing himself as a teen idol. Bieber achieved commercial success with his teen pop-driven debut studio album, '' My World 2.0'' (2010), which debuted atop the US ''Billboard'' 200, making him the youngest solo male act to top the chart in 47 years. The album spawned the internationally successful single "Baby", which became one of the highest certified singles of all time in the US. His second studio album, ''Under the Mistletoe'' (2011), became the first Christmas album by a male artist to debut at number one in the US. Bieber experimented with dance-pop in his third studio album, '' Believ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malta
Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies south of Sicily (Italy), east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. The official languages are Maltese and English, and 66% of the current Maltese population is at least conversational in the Italian language. Malta has been inhabited since approximately 5900 BC. Its location in the centre of the Mediterranean has historically given it great strategic importance as a naval base, with a succession of powers having contested and ruled the islands, including the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, Romans, Greeks, Arabs, Normans, Aragonese, Knights of St. John, French, and British, amongst others. With a population of about 516,000 over an area of , Malta is the world's tenth-smallest country in area and fourth most densely populated sovereign cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinkove Zvezdice
''Pinkove Zvezdice'' is a Serbian singing contest on the RTV Pink Pink is a privately owned, national radio station and TV channel in Serbia. Pink is the leading commercial station in the Serbian television broadcast market. Pink's parent company is the Belgrade-based Pink International Company Pink Internat ... television channel. The first episode was broadcast in September 2014. References 2014 establishments in Serbia RTV Pink original programming Talent shows Singing talent shows {{Europe-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macedonian Language
Macedonian (; , , ) is an Eastern South Slavic language. It is part of the Indo-European language family, and is one of the Slavic languages, which are part of a larger Balto-Slavic branch. Spoken as a first language by around two million people, it serves as the official language of North Macedonia. Most speakers can be found in the country and its diaspora, with a smaller number of speakers throughout the transnational region of Macedonia. Macedonian is also a recognized minority language in parts of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, and Serbia and it is spoken by emigrant communities predominantly in Australia, Canada and the United States. Macedonian developed out of the western dialects of the East South Slavic dialect continuum, whose earliest recorded form is Old Church Slavonic. During much of its history, this dialect continuum was called "Bulgarian", although in the 19th century, its western dialects came to be known separately as "Macedonian". Stan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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