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Interesting Facts about Eurovision Song Contest
 
One musical entry of the Eurovision Song Contest set off a Revolution!  In the 1974 Contest, the Portuguese song, “E Depois do Adeus” by Paulo de Carvalho was used as the signal to start the Carntion Revolution in Portugal.

The youngest winner of the Eurovision Song contest, was in 1986 - Sandra Kin from Belgium at the tender age of 13 years old!  It set off a trend of underaged contestants that continued until 1989 when a furor resulted over France's entry of an 11 year old, and Israel's 12 year old contestants.
 
Johnny Logan won the Eurovision Song Contest 3 times; in 1980 with Shay Healy song "What's Another Year?" - 1987 with his own composition "Hold Me Now" -  and in 1992 with "Why Me" sung by Linda Martin.

The most famous song performed at the Eurovision Song Contest song is Domenico Mudugno’s Nel Blu Di Pinto Di Blu, (Volare). The song has been performed countless number of times by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Cliff Richard, David Bowie and others.

English has not always been the predominant language of song entries of the Eurovision Song Contest.
It was only during the 70s that English began to dominate the Contest so the rules were changed in 1976 that allowed entries to sing in one of the official languages of the participating country. But in 1999 this was scrapped to allow songs to be sung in any language. Oddly, in 2003, Belgian entry of "Sanomi" was an entirely made up language!










Every day until May 8 I will be posting a music video of each one of the semi-finalists of the Eurovision Song Contest. On May 9, I will post the last three (my top favorites). Enjoy the videos!