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3 unusual facts about Eurovision Song Contest 2009


Funny Little World

Alexander Rybak performed an acoustic version of the song for the first time at a press conference at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia.

Lebanon in the Eurovision Song Contest

With the three-year ban, Télé Liban was not eligible enter the Eurovision Song Contest until the 2009 Contest.

Megasport Arena

This arena was rumored to be the venue for the 54th Eurovision Song Contest in 2009, but instead the competition was held at the Olympic Indoor Arena in Moscow.


Age of Conan: Unchained

The dance moves were made using motion capture on the dancer Hallgrim Hansegård, who is a backing dancer for the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009: "Fairytale" by Alexander Rybak.

Butterflies and Elvis

"Is It True?" is the first single taken from the album.The song was the Icelandic entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009,it achieved 174 points in the first semifinal and placed 1st.In the final the song received 218 points and placed 2nd making it the best Icelandic entry since Selma's "All Out Of Luck" in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999.

Cookies 'N' Beans

The group participated in Melodifestivalen 2009, the Swedish national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 held in Russia, with the song "What If", written by Amir Aly, Robin Abrahamsson and Maciel Numhauser.

Dublin Pride

Performers at the traditional post-parade show at the Civic Offices, hosted by Panti, included, among others, Black Daisy (Ireland's Eurovision Song Contest 2009 entrant), Michele Ann Kelly, Laura Steele, the Kylie Experience, and Katherine Lynch Senator David Norris was Grand Marshall.

Düm Tek Tek

Hadise started off her promo tour in Malta, appearing on 5 popular television shows including the National Final of Malta in which their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, What If We by Chiara, was chosen.

-- she's ethnically Turk, passports are irrelevant. see the link "Turks in Belgium" --> singer Hadise that was performed as the Turkish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia.

Georgian Public Broadcaster

Georgia's entry in the 2009 Eurovision song contest — "We Don't Wanna Put In" — was deemed to be a political statement against Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin, and the song was disqualified from the competition.

Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest

She returned to Eurovision once again in 2009 with "What If We", composed by Belgian songwriters Marc Paelinck and Gregory Bilsen, which placed only 22nd, with 31 points received.

Missä miehet ratsastaa

The song was succeeded as Finnish representative at the 2009 contest by Waldo's People with "Lose Control".

Nikolas Metaxas

Nikolas Metaxas participated as the songwriter and composer of the Cypriot entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia as his sister Christina Metaxa won the national final on 7 February 2009.

Sarah Cawood

She also co-commentated on the semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, 2009 and 2010 alongside Paddy O'Connell for viewers in the United Kingdom on BBC Three.

Tamta

Greek media outlets also demanded that ERT choose Tamta to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 following suspicions of favoritism from Eastern Bloc countries in 2008 where Kalomoira finished in 3rd place.

Tingaliin

"Tingaliin" was the last of the series of Tingeling songs performed at the intermissions of the Melodifestivalen 2009 in preparation to Eurovision Song Contest 2009 scheduled to be organized in Moscow.


see also

Amir Aly

Aly has produced three tracks on the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, Alexander Rybak's album (Fairytales) - "Funny Little World", "Roll With The Wind" and "If You Were Gone".

Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009

The jury panel included television and music producers: Yuriy Aksyuta, Kim Breitburg, Alexander Dulov, Igor Krutoy, Alexander Lunyov, Vladimir Matetsky, Ruben Oganesov, Larisa Sinelschikova, Maxim Fadeev, as well as the secretary of organising committee of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in the Government of the Russian Federation, Alexander Barannikov and head of the Humanitarian Cooperation Council of CIS countries, Dzhohan Pollyeva.