Sistem's international song contest

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Sistem is the band that represented Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 in Kiev, where they performed – along with Luminita Anghel – the song Let me try and ended up 3rd after winning the semi final, which makes them the most succesful Romanian entrants in the contest. But behind Sistem, there is a long history.

Sistem and Luminita finished 1st in the semi-final and 3rd in the final in 2005 in Kiev and after this success, the so-called 'drummer band' has made several remarkable experiences. In June 2006, they got up on Depeche Mode's stage in Bucharest as their support act and on New Year’s Eve they performed live in Berlin in front of 1 million people. Now, Sistemis one of the most successful bands in their country and recently they contracted with the'number 1'company in Romania.

At the moment, the group consists of five professional percussionists. They also started theirnational tour and beside this , every member of the group has also been involved in other activities. Toth Zoltan(Zoli) was born in 1976 in Timisoara, Romania. Right now, he is alsoworking in show business and he is the managing director of the Star Management company. He has recently started an international song contest called Battle of Songs where the winner will win the amount of 10.000 euro.

"I have started this contest together with my company – Star Management and I hope to discover new talented composers to freshen up the music market. I'm very happy to say that – although I was waiting for the first entries in August, songs have started to come in since the end of June. Good luck to all the contestants and may the best one win"declared Zoli.

Songs can be entered online at by 15th December, they may not be longer than 4 minutes and they have to be free of any publishing contract.

You can apply your songhere.