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| Yolanda Watson aka Reinette |
Today, The Grandma has been talking with The Watsons by Skype. She is still in Ithaca with The Stones but she continues working very hard with The Watsons and their English classes. After doing an exam, they have studied Present Simple and Adverbs of Frequency.
Finally, The Watsons have started to prepare their big project: how to help Yolanda Watson to be a popular person and win the Eurovision Song Contest that is going to be celebrated next May in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Yolanda wants to be the new France Gall and win the Contest representing her country, France.
They have done a brainstorming with lots of ideas and they are going to create different profiles in the social networks. Every member of the family is going to help Yolanda to achieve her dream of becoming a great star.
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The Eurovision Song Contest, in French Concours Eurovision de la chanson, is an annual international song competition, arranged since 1956 by the Eurovision broadcasting organisation, with participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner. At least 50 countries are eligible to compete as of 2019; since 2015, Australia has been allowed as a contestant.
Based on the Sanremo Music Festival held in Italy since 1951, Eurovision has been broadcasting every year since its inauguration in 1956, making it the longest-running annual international television contest and one of the world's longest-running television programmes. It is also one of the most watched non-sporting events, with audience figures of between 100 million and 600 million internationally. It has been broadcast in several countries that do not compete, such as the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and China. Since 2000, it has been broadcast online via the Eurovision website.
Ireland holds the record for most victories, with seven wins, including four times in five years in 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1996. Under the current voting system, in place since 2016, the highest-scoring winner is Salvador Sobral of Portugal who won the 2017 contest in Kiev, Ukraine, with 758 points; under the previous system, the highest-scoring winner was Alexander Rybak of Norway with 387 points in 2009.
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The most recent winner is Duncan Laurence from the Netherlands who won the 2019 event with the song Arcade. Winning the Eurovision Song Contest provides artists with a local career boost and sometimes long-lasting international success. Some of them include ABBA (winners for Sweden), Bucks Fizz & Lulu (winners for the United Kingdom), Celine Dion (winner for Switzerland), Johnny Logan (who won the contest twice for Ireland), Dana International (for Israel) and Lena (who won for Germany).
As a war-torn Europe was rebuilding itself in the 1950s, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) -based in Switzerland- set up an ad hoc committee to search for ways of bringing together the countries of the EBU around a light entertainment programme. At a committee meeting held in Monaco in January 1955 with Marcel Bezençon of the Swiss television as chairman, the committee conceived the idea, initially proposed by Sergio Pugliese of the Italian television RAI, of an international song contest where countries would participate in one television programme to be transmitted simultaneously across all countries of the union.
The competition was based upon the existing Sanremo Music Festival held in Italy and was seen as a technological experiment in live television. In those days it was a very ambitious project to join many countries together in a wide-area international network. Satellite television did not exist and the Eurovision Network comprised a terrestrial microwave network.
More information: Eurovision
The concept, then known as Eurovision Grand Prix, was approved by the EBU General Assembly in a meeting held in Rome on 19 October 1955, and it was decided that the first contest would take place in spring 1956 in Lugano, Switzerland. The name Eurovision was first used in relation to the EBU's network by British journalist George Campey in the London Evening Standard in 1951.
The first contest was held in the town of Lugano, Switzerland, on 24 May 1956. Seven countries participated -each submitting two songs, for a total of 14. This was the only contest in which more than one song per country was performed: since 1957 all contests have allowed one entry per country. The 1956 contest was won by the host nation, Switzerland.
The contest was first known as the Eurovision Grand Prix in English. This Grand Prix name was adopted by Germany, Denmark, Norway and the Francophone countries, with the French designation being Le Grand-Prix Eurovision de la Chanson Européenne.
The Grand Prix was dropped in 1973 and replaced with Concours (contest) in French and in 2001 with the English name in German, but not in Danish or Norwegian. The Eurovision network is used to carry many news and sports programmes internationally, among other specialised events organised by the EBU. However, in the minds of the public, the name Eurovision is most closely associated with the Song Contest.
More information: British Council
To the best of my knowledge there's nothing
quite like the Eurovision song contest for offering up
a must-watch mix of good old state-funded
entertainment and high camp.
Tyler Brûlé
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