Two days before the 2008 Melodifestivalen final, esctoday.com caught up with some of the finalists hoping to win the Swedish ticket to Belgrade in May, for the 53rd Eurovision Song Contest. Today, Barry Viniker caught up with Rongedal, Charlotte Perrelli and Sanna Nielsen at the individual rehearsals at the Globen Arena.
The esctoday.com are in Stockholm meeting the participants for Saturdays Grand Finale, where the successor(s) to The Ark will be decided.
The first interview we have is Rongedal, who will preform 3rd on Saturday night with thir song Just A Minute.The band performed at popular Schalger bar 'Golden Hits' last night and video highlights will be online later.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3PDboHLNIo
Former Eurovision Song Contest winner, Charlotte Perrelli, was next to get on camera. Charlotte will perform first on Saturday with her song Hero. Find out what's changed since her last participation, whether she prefers this song or Take me to your heaven and much more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS1YWmj_HW4
Sanna Nielsen, who will perform 7th on Saturday with her ballad Empty Room spoke about singing in English for the first time and about how the song came together:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veqIeIUAz74
Stay tuned to esctoday.com for more interviews with the Melodifestivalen finalists.
