Eurovision Legends
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Eurovision Legends
Eurovision Legends is the biggest podcast about the Eurovision Song Contest. Emil Löfström invites songwriters, artists and other important people from the world of the Eurovision Song Contest for a warm and lighthearted conversation about their Eurovision adventures and careers. How did the songs o...
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Loreen
Having started her career in the Swedish version of pop idol 2004, it took Loreen 7 years before the big breakthrough came. What happened in between a...
Jamala
In 2016, a Ukrainian trained opera singer sang a song about the deportation of Crimeans in 1944, which could easily also be interpreted as a thinly ve...
Hans Van Hemert
Many countries in Eurovision seem to have their own "super-composer", and in the case of the Netherlands this person is Hans van Hemert. He wrote the...
Udo Jürgens
Udo Jürgens was already a big star when he first competed in Eurovision for his Austria in 1964. He didn't win, but got the biggest hit after the cont...
Eva Santamaria
An argument in Los Angeles led to the creation of the perhaps most modern song to have taken part in Eurovision until that time, but the road that led...
Merethe Trøan
The "plump chicken from Trondheim" tried to reach Eurovision already at 14 years old, but had to wait another seven years until she finally succeeded...
Baccara 2.0
Two years ago Emil spoke to Maria Mendiola and Cristina Sevilla from (one of the constellations of) Baccara. Since then they have gone viral, made a c...
Hersi Matmuja
When Albanian singer Hersi Matmuja finally won Festivali i Këngës on her fourth attempt the usual revamp of the song started. How much of a say did sh...
Robin Bengtsson
He was the guy who came on from backstage and gave working out in a suit a face, but the musical career of two meter Swedish hunk Robin Bengtsson star...
John Ballard part II
Established in the business with successes like Ace of Base in his catalogue, John Ballard started to get invited to participate, mainly as a lyricist...
John Ballard
He has finished top ten four times out of five attempts in Eurovision, but never for his home country nor for the country where he has lived for over...
Mrs Einstein
We continue the story of Eurovision 1997 that started in the episodes with Icelandic Paul Oscar and Katrina and the Waves with one of Katrina's vodka...
The Roop
Snubbed on a very good chance to win in the cancelled 2020 contest, The Roop fought their way to another victory and finally got to grace the Eurovisi...
Magdalena Tul
Following a streak of missed finals for Poland, hopes were higher when Magdalena Tul and the song "Jestem" became popular with the fans and was genera...
Frans
Having had a huge hit already at seven years old, Frans Jeppsson Wall surprised the Swedish audience when he, almost forgotten, suddenly appeared in M...
Alon Amir Part II
We continue to listen to the fascinating adventures of Alon Amir in the world of Eurovision, starting in a bed together with Anne-Marie David.
O...
Alon Amir
Most of us Eurovision fans dream of one day playing some minor part to contribute to or nestle your way into our beloved contest, be it by submitting...
Lise Haavik
People all over the world often have a hard time separating the Scandinavian countries, and honestly, who can blame them when we have people like Lise...
Sandra Reemer
Sandra Reemer was one of the dutch great and competed three times in Eurovision during the 1970's. Alas, she is no longer with us so instead we have i...
Petri Laaksonen part II
This is the second part of the interview with Petri Laaksonen, in which our hero finally learns that you don't always win every time you take part. Af...
Petri Laaksonen part I
The young student Petri Laaksonen was totally inexperienced as a songwriter, but after some encouragement from his teacher he decided to try to take p...
Jon Ola Sand
He used to be the coolest guy in every Eurovision, but don't you want to hear about when Jon Ola Sand got really angry during the broadcast?
Or...
ABBA part II
Most of us believe that ABBA became a huge success all over the world immediately after they won Eurovision 1974, and although their winning entry "Wa...
ABBA
In 1974, a Swedish group changed Eurovision and music forever, but the story of ABBA did not in any way start there.
All four members of ABBA, o...
Manuela Bravo
Manuela Bravo participated for Portugal in 1979, which by many fans is considered to be a really good year, but still she managed to give Portugal one...
Martina Majerle
With the same origins as the 1993 Croatian representative Put, Martina Majerle has gone on to grace the Eurovision stage with her presence more times...
Paschalis Arvanitidis Πασχάλης Αρβανιτίδης
Paschalis Arvanitidis became a huge star in Greece already with the group The Olympians in the 1960's and then went solo, and even had a brief career...
Egon Egemann
Way before Alexander Rybak fiddled his way to victory, an Austrian guy brandishing a white violin represented Switzerland with a song about his love f...
Orna Datz אורנה דץ
Eurovision 1991 went down in history due to the tied score between Sweden and France, so that the winner had to be decided by tiebreaker. What many te...
Jüri Pootsmann
What is the next natural step when you have won Pop Idol, gotten a song from legendary Stig Rästa and won both the jury and the televote in the Estoni...
Gunvor
We often hear about the success stories from Eurovision, but Gunvor Guggisberg, now Gunvor Meyer, shows us that despite being treated really roughly b...
Christer Björkman part II
How could a Swedish Eurovision representative with one of the worst results ever for the country get to be in charge for the entire show for two decad...
Christer Björkman
Christer Björkman is such a huge Eurovision fan that he lied his way into the audience of Eurovision 1991 in Rome, and made someone else pay. He had t...
Moran Mazor מורן מזור
Moran Mazor's participation in 2013 can be seen as just yet one of the failed attempts to reach the final that Israel was living through a four-year s...
Charmed
It's an extremely wild ride when the three party girls from Norway reunite for this episode. Though 21 years have passed, they are still as funny and...
Fabrizio Faniello
In the flirtiest interview ever on this show, Emil takes on Fabrizio Faniello, the guy who competed twice for Malta with varying results. We finally l...
Matia Bazar
Matia Bazar are known to the Eurovision audience for their appearance with "Raggio di luna" in 1979, but they have been a musical force to reckon with...
Hazal Selçuk
Hazal Selçuk was only 16 years old but born from an impressive family consisting of both musical royalty and regular royalty.
Most notable was o...
Sarai Tzuriel שרי צוריאל
Sarai Tzuriel was one of the best knows faces in Israel when she was asked to become the female part of the duo to perform "Yavoh yom" in the Israeli...
Marion Rung
Marion Rung started her career at only 15, and it is still going on 60 years later. For 33 of those years she actually held the record for the best Fi...