Elena celebrates birthday on tour

by Richard West-Soley 115 views

Elena Risteska has a double celebration on her hands this evening. Not only is she performing her Eurovision song for FYR Macedonia on TV in Serbia and Montenegro, but she also celebrates her 20th birthday while on her promotional tour.

Elena appears on both the national broadcaster RTS and satellite channel TV BK in this evening's leg of the tour. Because of the tour date clashing with her birthday, she is to return home to Skopje tomorrow, where she will celebrate her new decade at a belated party with family and friends.

Elena's entry for Athens Ninanajna is enjoying its ninth consecutive week at the top of the charts in FYR Macedonia, a great birthday present for the young singer whose song is attracting a fair share of support from betting punters. She will perform the song at the qualifier round on 18th May in Athens.

Richard West-Soley

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Richard's ESC history began way back in 1992, when he discovered the contest could fuel his passion for music and languages. Since then, it's been there at every corner for him in some way or another. He joined the esctoday.com team back in 2006, and quickly developed a love for writing about the contest. In his other life, he heads the development team at the learning resources company Linguascope, and writes about all aspects of language learning on the site Polyglossic.com.