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Albania Picks Reality Show Starlet for Eurovision

Tirana | 22 December 2008 |
 
Kejsi Tola
Kejsi Tola
A 16-year-old former reality show contestant won Albania's song festival on Sunday, securing a ticket for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow.

Kejsi Tola's "Më Merr Në Ëndërr" ("You take me with you in a dream") received 126 points from the jury judging the twenty songs in the festival's final round. Tola, a perky, long-haired brunette, last year won the Ethet talent show, a reality show modeled on the popular “American Idol” franchise.

The winning song was written by the same team of musicians that penned Albania's first-ever Eurovision entry in 2004, when Anjeza Shahini, also a winner of the Ethet talent show, clinched Albania’s best Eurovision ranking to date, coming in 7th place.




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Comments:
Esperanto
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
The use of English, in the Eurovision Song Contest increases year by year. May I say, as a native English speaker that this unfair. The time has come to break this habit of "language imperialism", in the Eurovision Song Contest, and use a song, sung in Esperanto instead!



This is a serious suggestion, as you can see from the Esperanto music which is already available at http://www.vinilkosmo.com/?prs=listen or at http://video.google.(...)-8837438938991452670



There's even cheesy Esperanto music available! See http://www.ipernity.com/home/76977
Brian Barker

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