OGAE Greece vote for DreamTeam 00's

by Stella Floras 119 views

OGAE Greece celebrate another decade of Eurovision music with a contest to select the club's Eurovision Song Contest Dream Team of the 00's. The club members voted for their favourite entries from each country and the final stage of the competion will take place this Saturday in Kalambaka.

The OGAE Greece DreamTeam 00's contest began in November when the club members were called to vote for their favourite Eurovision entry from every country which took part in the past decade. The 46 winners were split in two semi finals and from them 26 qualified to the final which will tale place on 30 January, during the three day excursion organised for members and friends to Kalambaka.

This is the fifth decade contest organised by the Greek club. The winners for the previous ones were: 50's and 60's Congratulations (UK 1968), 70's L'oiseau et l'enfant (France 1977), 80's Hold me now (Ireland 1987) and 90's το Rapsodia (Italy 1992).

The finalists are:

01. Sweden 2008 – Charlotte Perelli – Hero
02. Romania 2006 – Mihai Traistariu – Tornero
03. Cyprus 2004 – Lisa Andreas – Stronger every minute
04. Bosnia & Herzegovina 2006 – Hari Mata Hari – Leija
05. Turkey 2003 – Sertab Erener – Everyway that I can
06. Spain 2003 – Beth – Dime
07. Serbia 2004 – Željko JoksimoviÄ� – Lane moje
08. Slovenia 2001 – Nuša Derenda – Energy
09. Belarus 2007 – Dmitry Koldun – Work your magic
10. Greece 2005 – Helena Paparizou – My Number One
11. Israel 2008 – Boaz Mauda – The fire in your eyes
12. Ukraine 2008 – Ani Lorak – Shady lady
13. Azerbaijan 2009 – AySel & Arash – Always
14. Estonia 2009 – Urban Symphony – Rändajad
15. Montenegro 2005 – No Name – Zauvijek moja
16. Bulgaria 2007 – Elitsa Todorova & Stoyan Yankulov – Voda
17. Latvia 2000 – BrainStorm – My star
18. Russia 2006 – Dima Bilan – Never let you go
19. Iceland 2009 – Yohanna – Is It True?
20. France 2009 – Patricia Kaas – Et s`il fallait le faire
21. Hungary 2005 – NOX – Forogj Világ
22. Switzerland 2005 – Vanilla Ninja – Cool Vibes
23. Portugal 2008 – Vania Fernandes – Senhora do mar
24. Moldova 2007 – Natalia Barbu – Fight
25. Norway 2008 – Maria Haukaas Storeng – Hold on, be strong
26. Armenia 2008 – Sirusho – Qele Qele

The songs which didn't quite make it from each semi are

First semi final
14 United Kingdom 2009 – Jade Ewen – My Time 160
15 Denmark 2009 – Niels Brinck – Believe Again 146
16 Lithuania 2009 – Sasha Son – Love 138
17 Belgium 2004 – Xandee – 1 Life 135
18 Poland 2003 – Ich Troje – Keine Grenzen – Zadnych granic 99
19 Netherlands 2007 – Edsilia Rombley – On top of the world 82
20 Ireland 2006 – Brian Kennedy – Every song is a cry for love 75
21 Georgia 2007 – Sopho – My Story 63
22 Austria 2000 – The rounder girls – All to you 59
23 Czech Republic 2008 – Tereza Kerndlová- Have some fun 10

Second semi final
14 Malta 2005 – Chiara – Angel 136
15 Albania 2008 – Olta Boka – Zemrën E Lamë Peng 131
16 Finalnd 2002 – Laura – Addicted to you 105
17 Croatia 2000 – Goran Karan – Kada zaspu andeli 84
18 Andorra 2006 – Jennifer – Sense tu 70
19 Germany 2001 – Michelle – Wer Liebe lebt 66
20 San Marino 2008 – Mi Odio – Complice57
21 FYR Macedonia 2004 – Tose Proeski – Life 43
22 Monaco 2005 – Lise Darly – Tout de moi 24
23 Slovakia 2009 – Kamil MikulÄ�ík & Nela Pocisková – LeÅ¥ Tmou 20

Stella Floras

Thanks to Johnny Logan and Hold me now I fell in love with the Eurovision Song Contest, a love that's been going strong ever since with undiminished passion. My first memories date back to 1977 and the lyrics of Rock bottom, Dschinghis Khan and A ba ni bi are still engraved in my brain.

I joined esctoday.com in 2006 as a junior editor after being invited by Barry Viniker, I soon became Senior Editor and during the 2007 contest in Helsinki I was appointed Head of Communications. Today I hold the post of Head of Human Resources and I am proud to be working with the best editorial team in the world.