The Heart Of Europe Concert was a concert held on May 18, 2005, in
Kyiv's
Maidan Nezalezhnosti as part of
Eurovision Song Contest 2005 opening. It was translated live on at least two national TV channels
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Inter –
sang the following songs:
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Wild Dances
"Wild Dances" is a single by Ukrainian singer-songwriter Ruslana. The song, representing , won the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 held in Istanbul with a score of 280 points. A Ukrainian-language version called "Dyki tantsi" () was released in Russ ...
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Like a Hurricane"
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Arcan"
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The Tango We Used To Dance"
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Wild Passion"
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Wild Dances part II"
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Dance with the Wolves
"Dance with the Wolves" is a song from Ukrainian singer Ruslana’s fifth studio album ''Wild Dances'', and was released on 11 January 2005.
Two music videos were made for the song. During the shootings, Ruslana had to be in a cage with wild w ...
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Accordion Intro"
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The Same Star
"The Same Star" () is a single by Ruslana, featured on her 2004 studio album ''Wild Dances''. The arrangement and recording were done by EGO WORKS /HIT FACTORY, Miami, United States.
Ruslana devoted ''The Same Star'' to her husband, the love of ...
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Heart on Fire"
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Ja Tebe Ljublu"
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Play for me Musician"
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Wind Song"
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Kolomyjka
The kolomyika ( uk, кoлoмийкa, pl, kołomyjka; also spelled kolomeyka or kolomeike) is a Hutsuls, Hutsul (Ukraine, Ukrainian) music genre that combines a fast-paced folk dance and comedic rhymed verses. It includes a type of performance da ...
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Drum 'n' Dance
''Wild Energy'' is Ruslana's second international English album, released in Canada on 2 September and in Europe on 10 October 2008. Recorded at the legendary Hit Factory Criteria Studios in Miami and produced by Ego Works, the album maintains Ru ...
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After her performance Ruslana finished the show by lighting a symbolic Heart of Europe. The same heart was lighted in all big cities of
Ukraine –
Odesa,
Lviv,
Donetsk,
Dnipropetrovsk
Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...
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Kharkiv by girls called Ruslana. After this ceremony Ruslana performed the anthem of
Eurovision
The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing pr ...
one more time. The fireworks were being shot during this performance.
Other performers :
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Elena Paparizou – "
My Number One
"My Number One" is a song recorded by Greek-Swedish singer Helena Paparizou, written by Manos Psaltakis, Christos Dantis, Natalia Germanou and produced by Christos Dantis. It was the at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, held in Kyiv, awarding ...
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Shiri Maimon – "
Hasheket Shenish'ar
Israel was represented in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 by Shiri Maimon and the song "HaSheket SheNish'ar". The song was written by Pini Aaronbayev and Eyal Shachar and composed by Pini Aaronbayev.
Before Eurovision
Kdam Eurovision 2005
T ...
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Martin Vučić
Martin Vučić ( mk, Мартин Вучиќ, sr-Cyrl, Мартин Вучић) is a Macedonian pop musician.
Biography
He finished elementary school in Skopje and expressed his interests in music at an early age. He started playing drums at ...
– "Make My Day"
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GreenJolly – "Razom nas bahato"
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Gracia – "Run and Hide"
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Boris Novković feat.
Lado Members – "Vukovi Umiru Sami"
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Valters & Kaža Valters is both a surname and a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Kristaps Valters (born 1981), Latvian basketball player
*Miķelis Valters (1874–1968), Latvian politician, diplomat and writer
* Sandis Valters (born 197 ...
– "The War Is Not Over"
*Laura & The Lovers – "Little By Little"
References
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{{Ruslana
Benefit concerts