DID PROMO TOURS IN BELGIUM GET REWARDED WITH POINTS?
Belgovision.com, Belgium
May 14 2007
In the last month preceding the Eurovision Song Contest, seven of this
year’s participants visited Belgium to promote their Eurovision Song
Contest entry. Edsilia Rombley (the Netherlands), Evridiki (Cyprus),
Hayko (Armenia) and Kenan Dogulu (Turkey) are the ones who also
received points from Belgium in the end.
At the end of April, Belgovision.com and 12Points.tv organised a promo
tour for Cypriot representative Evridiki and Dutch representative
Edsilia Rombley in Belgium, which offered them publicity in different
ways. Both Eurovision ladies could count on the Belgian support in
the semifinal. Belgium gave 10 points to Edsilia and 5 points to
Evridiki. However, that was not sufficient to qualify for the final.
That Turkey and Armenia can count on the support of their immigrants
in Belgium already became clear last year. In April, Hayko visited the
Armenian community in Brussels in order to encourage them to support
him in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest. With success. Hayko
received 10 points from Belgium in the final. Only Kenan Dogulu did
better, receiving the 12 points in both the semifinal and the final.
Three more Eurovision Song Contest candidates visited Belgium in
April. However, it turned out to be a waste of time for Koldun from
Belarus, Olivia Lewis from Malta and Marija ~Jestić from Bosnia
& Herzegovina, who didn’t get any point from Belgium. Furthermore,
Irish folk band Dervish performed at the music festival Dranouter
Aan Zee but didn’t promote their song They Can’t Stop The Spring.
Ireland, which finished last in Helsinki, also got 0 points from
Belgium.
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