#eurovision 1986

[eurovisionart]

🇧🇪 Sandra Kim - J'aime la vie

[vintageurovision]

L'amour De Ma Vie, Sherisse Laurence | Luxembourg, Eurovision Song Contest 1986

3rd place with 117 points

[yourdailyqueer]

Rykka

Gender: Non binary (they/them)

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: 13 March 1986

Ethnicity: White - Canadian / Swiss

Occupation: Singer, songwriter

Note: Represented Switzerland in Eurovision 2016

[eurovision-del]

Del’s Favourite Songs Poll: 2000s

Honestly this could have all been 2007

Songs under the cut:

[fabelhafteweltvonfelix]

Ketil Stokkan: Romeo - Grand Prix Eurovision 1986 in Bergen

[eurovision-facts]

Eurovision Fact #490:

Bergen is the northern-most city to have hosted the Eurovision Song Contest.

[Source]

Bergen 1986, Eurovision.tv.

[net-photos]

Das Logo des Eurovision Song Contest 1986 kombiniert Farben und geometrische Formen, symbolisiert Vielfalt und das verbindende Element der Musik. Den ganzen Artikel gibt es hier: https://nordischepost.de/unterhaltung/design/entwicklung-und-bedeutung-des-logos-des-eurovision-song-contest-1986/?feed_id=85041&_unique_id=66b4ea952a01f

[calabria-mediterranea]

Loredana Bertè & Mia Martini: 2 voices from Calabria, Italy

Italian sisters and singers Loredana Bertè and Mia Martini were born in Bagnara Calabra (Calabria, Italy), respectively in 1950 and 1947.

Mia Martini is considered, by many experts, one of the most important and expressive female voices of Italian music, characterised by her interpretative intensity and her soulful performance.

Her debut album, Oltre la collina is regarded as one of the best Italian albums made by a female artist. Hit songs like Piccolo uomo, Donna sola, Minuetto, made her one of the most popular artists of Italian music in the 1970s, both nationally and internationally. She is the only female artist to have won two Festivalbar consecutively, respectively in 1972 and in 1973.

In 1977, two important encounters occurred in Martini's life: the first with Charles Aznavour, with whom she began a musical collaboration, and the second with singer-songwriter Ivano Fossati, with whom she started an artistic and sentimental partnership.

In 1982, she sang E non finisce mica il cielo, written by Fossati, at Sanremo Music Festival, where she received the Critics Award, which was created specifically for her interpretation and which was named after her as "Mia Martini" Critics Awards from 1996, the year after her death.

In 1983, she was forced to leave the music industry and quit her career, as the music sector and colleagues considered her a person bringing bad luck and barred her from participating in any music and TV events, radio shows and concerts. This kept her away from the music scene for seven years. Only in 1989 was she able to reprise her career, when she returned to perform at Sanremo Music Festival, singing Almeno tu nell'universo, which brought her a new success.

She died on 12 May 1995 in Cardano al Campo at the age of 47.

After her death, the town Bagnara Calabra dedicated to the singer.

Loredana Bertè is a singer-songwriter and artist who has been in the music industry for over five decades. She has released twenty-one studio albums, five live albums, and three soundtracks throughout her career. In addition to her work as a solo artist, she has also collaborated with other renowned artists such as Gianna Nannini, Angelo Branduardi, and Claudio Baglioni.

In her long career, Bertè has experimented with different genres, from rock to reggae, from funk to pop. Bertè is known for the eccentric clothing she wears onstage for her performances.

One of her most popular song is E la luna bussò, an Italian reggae ballad which stayed on the Italian Singles Chart for 29 weeks.

In the 1980s Bertè achieved success in Italy with songs such as Maledetto Luna-Park, Una Sera d'Ottobre, and 'Ti Sento'. She also released two successful studio albums during this period: 'Loredana' (1985) and 'Loredana Berté' (1986). In 1988 she represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song 'Non siamo soli'.

Bertè is one of Italy's most beloved singers and has achieved great success throughout her career. She has sold over 12 million records worldwide and continues to be an inspiration to generations of fans across the globe.

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[eurovision-revisited]

Eurovision 2006 - Number 9 - Hari Mata Hari - "Lejla"

Perhaps the Platonic ideal of a Balkan ballad with so much pedigree it hurts.

Hari Mata Mari are old timers both in the Bosnian music scene but also at Eurovision. They entered songs in both the 1986 and 1987 Jugovizija contests to find Yugoslavia's Eurovision representatives. There have been many changes to the group since then though.

They were formed in 1985 around Hari Varešanović. He, together with the group Baobab won the Nove nade, nove snage festival and announced the formation of a new band, Hari Mata Hari. That original incarnation also included Edo Mulahalilović who was one of the participants in the fabled and first ever Bosnian national final, as well as the writer of Bosnia's 1994 Eurovision entry

The writers on Lejla are no less stellar. There's Željko Joksimović perhaps the King of the Balkan ballad and former Eurovision representative for Serbia & Montenegro. He's also one of the Eurovision stars the fans know just by their first name.

Finally there's the lyricists Fahrudin Pecikoza-Peca and Dejan Ivanović. The latter will go on to write two more of the most famous Balkan ballads in Eurovision history, Oro for Serbia in 2008 and also Adio for Montenegro in 2015. Fahurdin is Hari Mata Hari's regular song-writer but also wrote the lyrics for Bosnia's first ever, hugely emotional Eurovision entry in 1993 - Sva bol svijeta

On top of this, other Hari Mata Hari members have Eurovision connections. Also present in 1993 and making the dangerous journey out of Sarajevo in 1993 was Izo Kolečić, and the backing singers here, Ivana Čabraja and Ksenija Milošević will go on to have nine Eurovision appearances as backing singers in total. Ksenija is one of the backing singers for Eurovision winner and all-timer Molitva for Serbia in 2007

By saying that Lejla has pedigree, I'm severely undersell it. It's possibly one of the largest assemblages of Balkan and Eurovision talent ever put together on one stage.

It's a song about longing. Well it's a Balkan ballad, of course it is. Lejla is elusive, missing, leaving only trace. A trace that Hari is clinging to, following where ever it may lead, but Lejla remains an aching absence in his life.

It's a simple thing, but the drama of the instrumentation, emphasised by the simple starry staging, and the reactions of the band to Hari's words saying everything they need to. It may be simple, but it's one of my favourite uses of the 2006 stage, surrounded by the night, ghostly and haunting. It's a mood like no other.

The song was an internal selection by BHRT and they truly knew what they were doing here. It sailed through the semi-final in second place, gaining the most twelve point scores while it was doing so. It came third overall in the final behind two other acts that had televoting momentum of different kinds behind them. Lejla and Hari Mata Hari were definitely the classic Eurovision choice.

Eurovision 2006 was the climax of Hari Mata Hari's long and illustrious career in the music industry. There were tours, performances and other releases as well as more line-up changes. But this is their pinnacle - how could it not be? Their various members ploughed their own musical furrow although even now Hari Mata Hari come together to put on a reunion performance after nearly forty years in the business.

[eurovisionart]

🇳🇴 Ketil Stokkan - Romeo

[vintageurovision]

Cocktail Chic represents France at the 31st Eurovision Song Contest, held in the Grieg Hall in Bergen, Norway, on 3 May 1986. They were placed 17th with 'Européennes'. Photos: Rowe John [x]

[kellisanth]

Samantha Karen Fox was born on 15 April 1966 in Mile End, East London, UK. Her parents were Carole Fox and Patrick Fox and she's got a little sister named Vanessa Lai Fox.

She started out as a nude model for "Page 3" of British tabloids when she was still 16, and in 1983 Sam was said to have her breasts insured for $500,000.

In 1983, she recorded with her first band, called SFX, the songs "17 and Holding", "My Old Man", and "Aim To Win" but they never broke into the charts. Sam went back to being a top model, but returned to the music business in 1986 as a solo artist.

Dismissing the notion that she was all pin-up looks and no singing talent, "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)" went to number one in 15 countries in 1986, and she had seven other Top 10 singles, namely "Do Ya, Do Ya (Wanna Please Me)" (1986), "Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now" (1987), "Love House" (1988), "I Surrender (To The Spirit Of The Night)" (1987), "I Only Wanna Be With You" (1988), "Let Me Be Free" (1997) and "Santa Maria" (1998).

In 1995, Sam Fox created a band, called Sox, to enter the song "Go for the Heart" in the Eurovision song contest, but the UK public gave them only 65,436 votes, 4th place, not enough to represent the UK in the finals.

That year, she made a cameo appearance with Indian actor Govinda in the musical comedy Rock Dancer (1995) - and her blonde beauty in a brief stage white costume was in most lobby cards in all Indian regions.

As of 2002, Sam ranked #81 on VH1's 100 Sexiest Artists.

[justforbooks]

Ioanna "Nana" Mouskouri OQ (Greek: Ιωάννα "Νάνα" Μούσχουρη born 13 October 1934) is a Greek singer and politician. Over the span of her career, she has released over 200 albums in at least thirteen languages, including Greek, French, English, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Hebrew, Welsh, Mandarin Chinese and Corsican.

Mouskouri became well known throughout Europe for the song "The White Rose of Athens", recorded first in German as "Weiße Rosen aus Athen" as an adaptation of her Greek song "Σαν σφυρίξεις τρείς φορές" (San sfyríxeis tris forés, "When you whistle three times"). It became her first record to sell over one million copies.

Later in 1963, she represented Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "À force de prier". Her friendship with the composer Michel Legrand led to the recording by Mouskouri of the theme song of the Oscar-nominated film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. From 1968 to 1976, she hosted her own TV show produced by BBC, Presenting Nana Mouskouri. Her popularity as a multilingual television personality and distinctive image, owing to the then unusual signature black-rimmed glasses, turned Mouskouri into an international star.

"Je chante avec toi Liberté", recorded in 1981, is perhaps her biggest hit to date, performed in at least five languages – French, English as "Song for Liberty", German as "Lied der Freiheit", Spanish as "Libertad" and Portuguese as "Liberdade". "Only Love", a song recorded in 1985 as the theme song of TV series Mistral's Daughter, gained worldwide popularity along with its other versions in French (as "L'Amour en Héritage"), Italian (as "Come un'eredità"), Spanish (as "La dicha del amor"), and German (as "Aber die Liebe bleibt"). It became her only UK hit single when it reached number two in February 1986.

Mouskouri became a spokesperson for UNICEF in 1993 and was elected to the European Parliament as a Greek deputy from 1994 to 1999.

In 2006 she was a special guest on Eurovision Song Contest 2006's final, presented as the best selling artist of all time.

In 2015, she was awarded the Echo Music Prize for Outstanding achievements by the German music association Deutsche Phono-Akademie.

Mouskouri has been married twice: first at age 25, to Yorgos (George) Petsilas, a guitarist in her backing band (the trio "The Athenians") They had two children (Nicolas Petsilas in 1968 and Hélène (Lénou) Petsilas in 1970) but divorced when Mouskouri was 39. Not long after that, she started a relationship with her record producer André Chapelle, but they did not marry then because she "didn't want to bring another man into the family" and divorce was against her conservative upbringing. They eventually married on January 13, 2003, and live primarily in Switzerland.

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[weirdthoughtsandideas]

You know how they make "esc was a mess" videos on youtube every year? Imagine if they did that for like, older esc years.

"Eurovision 1985 was a mess", Denmark entered the contest with some random 10 year old running around stage, the host LOST HER SKIRT ON LIVE TV AND SOLVED THIS VERY CLEVERLY

"Eurovision 1986 was a mess", Belgium won with a 13 year old girl singing, Norway entered with the first person in drag being on stage (as a dancer, not a singer, but still), Sweden had this number where a bald man came in and played electric guitar...

[eurovision-facts]

Eurovision Fact #265:

During Türkiye’s 34 nonconsecutive years at the Eurovision Song Contest, the nation only managed to break into the top ten a total of ten times:

In 1986, Klips ve Onlar’s ‘Halley’ placed 9th.

In 1997, Sebnem Paker and Group Etnic placed 3rd with ‘Dinle.’

Soon after in 2000, Pinar Ayhan & S.O.S. Band just made the cut by placing 10th with their song ‘Yorgunum Anla.’

Sertab Erener made history for the nation in 2003 by winning the contest with her song ‘Everyway That I Can.’

The following year, the nation saw similar levels of success as representative Athena took 4th place with the song ‘For Real.’

In 2007, Kenan Dogulu also took 4th place with the song ‘Shake It Up Shekerim.’

Success continued for the next three years: In 2008, Mor ve Ötesi’s ‘Deli’ took 7th, Hadise took 4th in 2009 for ‘Düm Tek Tek,’ and maNga took the nation’s second best placing in 2010 by earning 2nd with their song ‘We Could Be The Same.’

Finally, during the nation’s last time at the contest in 2012, they placed 7th thanks to Can Bonomo’s ‘Love Me Back.’

[Source]

Türkiye, Eurovision.tv.     

[sidmjkgc]

I think the non-italians crowd doesn't actually understand Sanremo. Sanremo is not just a tv show, it's an experience.

On paper, Festival di Sanremo is a song contest where a bunch of singers compete for roughly a week with a song, and get judged by journalists, a professional jury and the popular vote by televoting. It is not a contest to choose who goes to the Eurovision. It's a complete different contest where the winner can choose to represent Italy in Eurovision.

Usually it's aired in early february, and the first day is on tuesday right after the 8pm news up until after midnight, while the final is on saturday. Some years you also get an aftershow, where they comment on the night that we just saw. The name of the participants are announced in december. The songs are all unpublished and super secret, you can only listen to them for the first time on the stage. If your song gets leaked, you get disqualified from the competition.

Of course, dresses and general vibes on stage are important too, not for the contest per se, but for the audience who watches and judges how they dress or act. This goes for the singers, the hosts and every guests. Then there's interviews and gossip and everything that surrounds an event like this. The stage itself with its scenography is important too, the main focus point is the staircase and how everyone walks down from it. It's always held in Teatro Ariston, a theatre in Sanremo (Liguria) and broadcast live by RAI, the public state tv and radio.

This is Sanremo on paper. In reality is a lot more than that.

Because it's a live show, broadcast worldwide, and it starts at 20:45 and ends at 1:30 (when it's not longer) everything can happen. And it will.

Every once in a while there's someone who jumps on the stage to shout stuff, to protest against the festival or the government. Depending on who's participating, sometimes politicians make statements in the parliament against the singers. There's always a piece of underwear showing somewhere, a skirt too high or a shirt cut too low. Maybe a host is not even wearing underwear and shows everything to the camera, like Belen Rodriguez's butterfly tattoo.

In 1961 Adriano Celentano sang while giving the back to the audience in protest. In 1967 Luigi Tenco, a singer who was competing, killed himself in an hotel room after the final. In the early 80's all the singers were lip singing to their songs, and Vasco Rossi decided to put his mic in a pocket and walk away before the song was finished as a protest. In 1986 Loredana Bertè sang while wearing a tight leather dress over a fake pregnant belly. In 1995 someone in the audience tried to jump down the balcony into the crowd and the host (Pippo Baudo) had to stop him. We later found out this was staged. In 2001 Placebo were an international guest, and destroyed their guitars on stage after the audience booed them. Many singers brought controversial songs, such as Povia who in 2009 brought "Luca era gay" ("Luca was gay") about this guy who suddenly becomes straight. Many singers also bought their places or the televote, like the trio Pupo, Luca Canonici and Emanuele Filiberto (from the Savoia family, you know, the used-to-be-kings-of-Italy) who allegedly bought many call centres in order to vote for their song in 2010. The did not win. This is also why now the maximum number of valid votes is five, and after that you can't vote anymore. In the same year, 2010, the entire orchestra destroyed their music sheets in a protest against the elimination of Malika Ayane's song from the top three. In 2019 a racist politician complained about Mahmood singing (and winning) because "he's not truly italian". The same year, Ultimo ended up in second place and had a huge meltdown during the press conference and later on his instagram. In 2020 two singers (Bugo and Morgan) who were participating together fought backstage and Morgan changed the lyrics of the song into something insulting the other one, who walked off the stage. In 2023, this year, Blanco was singing as a guest and couldn't hear his voice in the earpiece and decided to break the flower composition on the stage. They are currently discussing if he should get prosecuted and put in jail for this, I wish I was joking. Also in the same year Rosa Chemical, while competing, decided to kiss the host's husband (Fedez) in a staged performance at the end of his song, and everyone is talking about harassment and the pro life organization wants to report them for indecency. And now apparently the government wants Rai to fire Amadeus (the host for the past four years) because it's "too chaotic and controversial", even though every year the share is astronomical. We're talking like more than 62% of share at 2am. And because they made an official instagram account for the host on stage as a skit, there's a petition to investigate if this was all a gigantic spot for instagram.

There are countless of weird songs and weird performance and weird dresses, countless of singers walking barefoot on stage or falling down the stairs, even more countless of controversies and meme. The songs fly up to the charts and some stays there for months. The most italian famous song is "Nel blu dipinto di blu" by Domenico Modugno who won Sanremo in 1958. And then there are the haters. There are also contro-festival (against festival) happening, where the alternative scene has concerts and other song contests. Literally countless of drama.

Sanremo is more than just a song contest, more than just a week. Festival di Sanremo is a collective experience that lasts for months, becomes dormant during summer (when you are still listening to the songs or artist that came out of it anyway) and makes a comeback in december and then february. It never truly ends.