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unusual facts about national song



Edwin Nanau Sitori

Edwin Nanau Sitori, also known as Eddie Sitori (born in the mid-1930s in Onepusu, Malaita), is a Solomon Islands former amateur composer and singer, best known for composing the country's unofficial "national song", "Walkabout long Chinatown".


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Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

The novel was also the source of the song Vande Mataram (I worship my Motherland for she truly is my mother) which, set to music by Rabindranath Tagore, was taken up by many Indian nationalists, and is now the National Song of India.

Brendan O'Reilly

Between 1966 and 1968, O'Reilly had the honour of commentating for Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest, as well as presenting the National Song Contest (to select Ireland's Eurovision entry) from 1966 to 1970.

Ding-a-dong

On the night of the Dutch National Song Contest, the song had already been selected to be performed at the ESC, but there were two other singers competing for the honor of performing the song: Albert West and Debbie.

Kasia Wilk

In 2004, she received an award at the Polish National Song Festival in memory of Anna Jantar.

Leon Menkshi

His career in TV started in 1990, by being chosen to host the Albanian National Song Festival (which is now known as the national selection for Albania's entry into the Eurovision Song Contest, Festivali i Këngës) twice in a row in 1990 & 1991.

Vocaluptuous

As part of the Total Defence Day in 2011, a revised version of popular national song “Home” was recorded and filmed as a music video, and featured 39 local artistes including Kit Chan, Stefanie Sun, JJ Lin, Dick Lee and Vocaluptuous.