This is Beirut, 18/05 09:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Eurovision Contest Music JJ Culture Austria
With his falsetto voice and angelic smile, JJ has given Austria its first Eurovision victory since bearded drag queen Conchita Wurst won eleven years ago. With Wasted Love—a track that soars with soprano highs between soft ballad refrains and climaxes in a techno finale—Austria took a risky but ultimately rewarding gamble. The song earned 436 ...
This is Beirut, 17/05 12:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Eurovision Europe Contest Sweden Culture Music
In a blaze of laser lights, artists from 26 countries were preparing to rip the roof off at Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest final, the world's biggest live music television event. An estimated 160 million people across Europe and beyond are expected to tune in for the TV extravaganza, where kitsch, drama, pyrotechnics and histrionics take ...
This is Beirut, 16/05 17:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Celine Dion Eurovision Prague Culture Music Art
As excitement builds for Saturday's Eurovision final, one question looms large: could superstar Celine Dion, now in fragile health, make a show-stopping appearance, 37 years after winning the competition? Dion became a global music icon, selling albums by the millions and staging groundbreaking sell-out concerts around the world. But she has ...
This is Beirut, 16/05 15:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Eurovision Switzerland Europe Music Culture Art
Switzerland is hosting Eurovision for the third time, with the extravaganza a world away from when it staged the inaugural competition in 1956—and also from 1989 when Celine Dion starred. The 2025 edition on May 17 in Basel will draw an expected TV audience of around 160 million, with viewers worldwide casting their votes. Here is a look back ...
This is Beirut, 09/05 17:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Eurovision Music Culture Concert Art Basel
Swiss schoolchildren are drawing inspiration from Eurovision and creating their own songs, to be performed before an audience of thousands in the build-up to this year's extravaganza in Basel. "It's exciting to see that we're all going to sing together" on stage on the sidelines of the Eurovision Song Contest, said Tessa Cajani, a pupil at a ...
This is Beirut, 08/05 10:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Banks Europe Eurovision Culture
With a population of 180,000, Switzerland's third-biggest city after Zurich and Geneva straddles the River Rhine and sits right on the northern border with both France and Germany. Basel's location played a major role in its growth and continental importance through the ages. From May 11 to 17, it will be a center-stage in Europe again as it ...
This is Beirut, 17/04 14:11 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Music Eurovision Award Television Switzerland Sweden
Eurovision is the world's biggest talent show, featuring 37 national entries, but one country seems to regularly dominate the conversation and the winners' podium: Sweden. With a month to go before the grand finale in Basel on May 17, anything could happen. But Sweden, which has already won the glitzy glamfest seven times - tied with ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-25 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Basel Eurovision Switzerland Music
Basel voters on Sunday overwhelmingly approved the city putting up nearly $40 million towards hosting next year's Eurovision Song Contest, meaning the continental TV extravaganza will go ahead with its customary full-on razzmatazz. Intermediate results showed 66.4 percent of voters in the Swiss city backed putting taxpayers' cash into staging ...
This is Beirut, 2024-10-28 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The canton of Basel-City, in northern Switzerland, will need to organize a referendum in November on hosting Eurovision 2025, as opponents submitted enough signatures on Saturday. Swiss singer Nemo, a non-binary activist, won Eurovision 2024, granting Switzerland the right to host the world’s largest song contest next May. In August, ...