Songs and artists

Song (first) NETHERLANDS provided the first ever entry performed in the ESC. The singer Jetty Pearl performed De vogels van Holland. Song (100th, 200th etc.) SWITZERLAND 1963: T'en vas pas by Ester Ofarim, was the 100th song performed. NETHERLANDS 1969: De troubadour by Leny Kuhr, was number 200. MALTA 1975: Singing this song by Renato, number 300. FRANCE 1980: Hé, hé, m'sieurs dames by Profil, was the 400th. LUXEMBOURG 1986: L'amour de ma vie by Sherisse Laurence, was number 500. PORTUGAL 1990: Ha sempre alguem by Nucha, number 600. POLAND 1994: To nie ja! by Edyta Gorniak, marked the 700th entry. SPAIN 1999: No quiero escuchar by Lydia, was number 800. CYPRUS 2003: Feeling alive by Stelios Konstantas, was the 900th. In 1969 Leny Kuhr's entry resulted in a (shared) victory for the Netherlands. On the other hand, Lydia, 30 years and 600 songs later, ended up last with only 1 point. The 1000th song in a Eurovision final was Georgia's debut entry Visionary Dream by Sopho Khalvashi. If we do count in semifinalists from the years 2004 and later (when the semifinal was broadcast on TV and formed an integral part of the show) then the 1000th Eurovision entry was Every song is a cry for love by Brian Kennedy for Ireland in the 2006 semifinal. Song (longest) ITALY's 1957 entry Corde della mia chitarra by Nunzio Gallo is the longest competing song performed live in an ESC final, lasting over 5 minutes. Shortly after the rule was set that no entry could last longer than 3 minute 30, later to be reduced to 3 minutes. Song (shortest) UNITED KINGDOM's 1957 entry All by Patricia Bredin is the shortest competing song performed live in an ESC final, lasting only 1 minute 52. Song title (longest) GERMANY - The German entry of 1964 Man gewöhnt sich so schnell an das schöne (One gets used so soon to what's beautiful) sung by Nora Nova is the song with the longest title so far in ESC. Despite the many letters the title has, the number of points remained 0 for this song. The second longest title was C'est le dernier qui a parlé qui a raison (It's the last who has spoken who is right) from Amina for France in 1991. That one did far better, coming equal first in points, though officially second on countback. Just a few tokens shorter is Les mots d'amour n'ont pas de dimanche (Words of love don't have a Sunday), the French entry in 1987 by Christine Minier. The longest title of the current decade was Razom nas bahato - nas nye podolaty (Ukraine 2005). Song title (shortest) SPAIN/UNITED KINGDOM/ITALY/ISRAEL/BELARUS - The shortest song titles in ESC history had only two characters. The record goes to El (He) for Spanish Lucia in 1982, Scott Fitzgerald's Go in 1988 for the United Kingdom, Si! (Yes) by Gigliola Cinquetti in 1974 for Italy (although sometimes written with an exclamation mark, which makes it longer), Belarussian Ma in the 2006 semifinal and the last one is Hi (Alive) by Ofra Haza, the 1983 Israeli entry. This title though is only one transcription from the title originally written in Hebrew script, and is often written differently in Latin too (Hai, Chai, Khai). In Hebrew though, the word is written with two characters. Song title (Most common) Seven song titles have been used more than once in ESC history being: Vivre (Switzerland 1978, France 1983), Stop (Greece 1987, Slovenia 2005 - semi), Angel (Iceland 2001, Malta 2005), Lejla (Yugoslavia 1981, Bosnia & Herzegovina 2006), Without your love (Ireland 2001, Armenia 2006), Never let you go (Greece 2003, Russia 2006) and Congratulations (UK 1968, Iceland 2006 - semi). 2006 thus is a record year when it comes to re-using old ESC song titles Almost identical of course are also Maria Magdalena (Austria 1993) and Marija Magdalena (Croatia 1999), and Socrates (Greece 1979, officially spelled the English way) and Sókrates (Iceland 1988). Worth noting also that Switzerland's entries in 1962 and 1970 were called Le retour and just Retour. Similar titles   Apart from the Swiss title mentioned above: in 1991 two song titles started with the same three words: Could it be from Malta, and Could it be, that I'm in love from Ireland. The 2003 Bosnia & Herzegovina entry Ne brini by the way was partially sung in English, and its English title was ... Could it be. In 2001 something similar happened to ten years before: Norway had a song called On my own, while the Dutch song was called Out on my own. After Denmark had an entry that year called Never ever let you go in 2002 we had Never let it go (Sweden) and in 2003 Never let you go (Greece), a title re-used in 2006 by Russia. Very similar as titles, but with a much longer gap between them, are Ele e ela (Portugal 1966) and Ela ela (Cyprus 2005). Other similar couples: Hani (Turkey 1982) and Hano (Bosnia & Herzegovina 2001), Halay (Turkey 1984) and Halley (Turkey 1986), Nína (Iceland 1991) and Núna (Iceland 1995), Halo halo (Yugoslavia 1982) and Hallo, hallo (Denmark 1990); Modlitba (Slovakia 1998) and Molitva (Serbia 2007). In 1981 the 5th and 7th song from respectively Israel and Yugoslavia had very similar titles too: Ha'layla (meaning Tonight - also written sometimes as Layla) and Lejla (a girl's name). Meaningless title There have been many song titles in ESC history, that didn't have a meaning at all. To name a few: Na na na (Slovenia 2003), La, la, la (Spain 1968), Ding dinge dong (Netherlands 1975), Ring ringe ding (Netherlands 1967), Boom-bang-a-bang (UK 1969), Daili-daili-dou (Portugal 1978), Boom-boom (Denmark 1978), Rimi rimi ley (Turkey 2005), Diday diday day (Turkey 1985), Boum badaboum (Monaco 1967), Diggey-loo diggey-ley (Sweden 1984). Tom tom tom (Finland 1973), Diri diri (Greece 1994), Sjúbidú (Iceland 1996), Yamma yamma (Finland 1992), Djambo djambo (Switzerland 1976), Boogaloo (Sweden 1987), Pump pump (Finland 1976), and Sanomi (Belgium 2003), Amambanda (Netherlands 2006). Small record here for Finland. Thanks to Pedro from Portugal for his additions. Meaningless lyric Where all but one of these songs at least had some words in its lyric that made some sense (although mostly not that much) the Belgian entry Sanomi by Urban Trad from 2003 is unique, since its lyric has no meaning at all: the song is written in a fictive language. The Dutch group Treble will sung their 2006 entry Amambanda partially in a fictive language too. Double word titles Here's an attempt to name all the titles that consisted of two times the same word: Telefon, Telefon (Germany 1957), Voi voi (Norway 1960), April, April (Sweden 1961), Addio, addio (Italy 1962), Mamman, mamman (Monaco 1969), Bonjour, bonjour (Switzerland 1969), Jennie, Jennie (Sweden 1975), Pump pump (Finland 1976), Djambo djambo (Switzerland 1976), Video video (Denmark 1982), Halo, halo (Yugoslavia 1982), Lady lady (Spain 1984), Olé olé (Israel 1985), Piano, piano (Switzerland 1985), Amour, amour (Luxembourg 1987), Moitié, moitié (Switzerland 1987), Bana bana (Turkey 1989), Hallo, Hallo (Denmark 1990), Yamma yamma (Finland 1992). Switzerland seems to have had them more than any other country. Thanks to Zeljko from France for his addition of Hallo hallo and the correction of the country for Mamman, mamman! Geographical titles Here's an attempt to name all the titles that had the name of a geographical entity (apart from the more general 'world') or derivative of one in it: De vogels van Holland (Netherlands 1956), Messieurs les noyés dans la Seine (Belgium 1956), Der K und K Kalypso aus Wien (Austria 1959), Sommer i Palma (Norway 1961), Nur in der Wiener Luft (Austria 1962), Zwei kleine Italiäner (Germany 1962), En gång i Stockholm (Sweden 1963), Maria-L-Maltija (Malta 1972), Waterloo (Sweden 1974), Une petite française (Monaco 1977), Swiss Lady (Switzerland 1977), Lapponia (Finland 1977), Portugal no coração (Portugal 1977), Swiss lady (Switzerland 1977), Les jardins de Monaco (Monaco 1978), Colorado (Netherlands 1979), Heute in Jerusalem (Austria 1979), Amsterdam (Netherlands 1980), C'est peut-être pas l'Amérique (Luxembourg 1981), Européennes (France 1986), La chica que yo quiero (Made in Spain) (Spain 1988), Macedomienne (Belgium 1990), Brandenburger Tor (Norway 1990), Somewhere in Europe (Ireland 1990), Brazil (Yugoslavia 1991), Venedig im Regen (Austria 1991), Sole d'Europa (Italy 1993), Ellada, hora tou fotos d'Europa (Greece 1993), Mamma Corsica (France 1992), Frå Mols til Skagen (Denmark 1995), San Francisco (Norway 1997), Reise nach Jerusalem - Kudüs'e seyahat (Journey to Jerusalem) (Germany 1999), Lady Alpine Blue (Russia 2001), Europe's living a celebration (Spain 2002), Las Vegas (Sweden 2005). A few titles mentioned places not even on earth: Hello from Mars (Latvia 2003), Halley (Turkey 1986), not counting several songs about the sun and the moon. And then there was a title about a fictive location: Shangri-la (Netherlands 1988). Thanks to Timoteus and Sini, both from Finland, Giorgos from Greece, and Peter de Vries from the Netherlands for some additions. Titles with people's names Here's an attempt to name all the titles that had the name of a famous or unknown person in it: Giorgio (Switzerland 1958), Augustin (Sweden 1959), Mon ami Pierrot (Monaco 1959), Tom Pillibi (France 1960), Angelique (Denmark 1961), Katinka (Netherlands 1962), Marcel (Germany 1963), Le chant de Mallory (France 1964), Fernando en Filippo (Netherlands 1966), Anouschka (Germany 1967), Marianne (Italy 1968), Catherine (Luxembourg 1969), Judy, min vänn (Sweden 1969), Jennifer Jennings (Belgium 1969), Marie Blanche (France 1970), Gwendolyne (Spain 1970), Marlène (Monaco 1970), Je vais me marier, Marie (Switzerland 1973), Maria-L-Maltija (Malta 1972), Mata Hari (Norway 1977), Judy et compagnie (Belgium 1976), Jennie, Jennie (Sweden 1975), Frère Jacques (Luxembourg 1977), Beatles (Sweden 1977), Casanova (Norway 1977), Charlie Chaplin (Greece 1978), Mrs. Caroline Robinson (Austria 1978), Socrates (Greece 1979), Dschingis Khan (Germany 1979), Oliver (Norway 1979), Mary Ann (UK 1979), Johnny Blue (Germany 1981). Leila (Yugoslavia 1981), Monika (Cyprus 1981), Samson (Belgium 1981), Per Lucia (Italy 1983), Dzuli (Yugoslavia 1983), Anna Maria Elena (Cyprus 1984), Romeo (Norway 1986), Valentino (Spain 1986), Sókrates (Iceland 1988), Lisa, Mona Lisa (Austria 1988), Nína (Iceland 1991), Mrs. Thompson (Norway 1991), Maria Magdalena (Austria 1993), Eloïse (Sweden 1993), Guildo hat Euch lieb (Germany 1998), Marija Magdalena (Croatia 1999), Hano (Bosnia and Herzegovina 2001), My Galileo (Belarus 2004 semi), Lorrain (Bulgaria 2005 semi), Lejla (Bosnia & Herzegovina 2006) A record for Norway. The song title Cool vibes (Switzerland 2005) was the name of a tiger, according to the group Vanilla Ninja. Thanks to 'Aubret62' from the Netherlands and Timoteus from Finland for some additions. Songs that mention the contest itself A few entries in Eurovision history have mentioned the competition itself in its lyric. The first two songs that did so were entries in jubileum editions. The 25th contest in 1980 saw the Belgian group Telex sing Euro vision, an unique entry anyhow with its quite contemporary for that time, if not futuristic techno sound. In the 50th contest in 2005 Femminem played it more subtle for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and also with a more old-fashioned song, called Call me .. Although the name Eurovision is never mentioned, its lyric clearly refers to the contest and its anniversary (e.g. fifty candles on the forty cakes - referring to the forty countries that had planned to enter), and so did the official video to the song. One year later, in 2006 we had two entries that mentioned Eurovision. Both Lithuania and Iceland in their respective entries We are the winners and Congratulations declared themselves winners, both in the end didn't win. Lithuania came closest with a 6th place. Words (least) The song with the least unique words is the Finnish entry Aava sung by the group Edea in 1998. Its lyric is: Aava maa, avara, kauneus, suuruus, Isa. These words are repeated a few times throughout the song though. The least words used in total are the 24 words in the winning song from 1995: Norway's Nocturne by Secret Garden. Another song with very little text is Rendez-vous by Pas de Deux for Belgium in 1983. It's eleven words Rendez-vous, maar de maat is vol, en mijn kop is toe are repeated many times during the song. Instrumental part (longest) The Norwegian song Nocturne by Secret Garden has an instrumental 'intermezzo' of 2 minutes and 11 seconds. In fact it originally didn't even have any words at all, but as the ESC is a 'song' contest, Norway was forced to add some text to the composition. In 2004 nevertheless Slovenia almost entered the 'song' Klise by Rozemarinke, which didn't have a lyric at all either. This song wasn't eventually selected for the ESC though. The second longest musical intermezzo must have been the approximately 1 and a half minute lasting guitar solo at the start of Italy's Corde della mia chitarra in 1957. The longest intro in recent times probably is  the one of Bandido (Spain 1990). Artist (oldest) The oldest artist of which the exact age is known, ever to participate was Croatian Dado Topic (57) in the 2007 semifinal. Counting only final appearances the honour goes to Lale Andersen, who in 1961 represented Germany, five days before her 56th birthday. Even older, but not singing, was the 'grandma' on stage with the group Zdob shi Zdub for Moldova in 2005. She played the drums in the song Boonika bate doba (Grandma beats the drum). She was said to be 60 years old. The oldest winner was not Jørgen Olsen as previously stated, but Dave Benton. Dave was 50 years and nearly three months old, when he won together with Tanel Padar in 2001 for Estonia. Jørgen had his 50th birthday two days after the 2000 contest. Thanks to Benjamin from Switzerland for the info about Lale Andersen! Artist (youngest) The youngest lead singer in ESC was Nathalie Pâques, living in Belgium, though singing J'ai volé la vie for France in 1989, when she was only 11 years old. In the same year the 12-year-old Gili sang for Israel. In 1981 the Cypriot backing choir featured Alexia Vassiliou (representing Cyprus again as a solist in 1987 with Aspro mavro), who was only 11 back then. Monaco's participant in 1969, Jean Jacques was 12 year old as well. The youngest person on an ESC stage though was a 9-year-old Lea Bundgård who featured in the song Sku' du spørg frå no'en from Denmark in 1985, with the group Hot Eyes. In fact she is the daughter of the male half of Hot Eyes, Søren Bundgård. Really young, but probably older than 9, were the four kids accompanying Betty Missiego for Spain in 1979. This was the first and only time more than one child was on stage at the same time. This record isn't likely to be broken since in 1990 the minimum age for participating was set to 16. In 1995 France tried to enter a 12-year-old singer, but it wasn't allowed. In 2003 the first Junior Eurovision Song Contest was held. So far the youngest participant in that contest has been Nikolas (8) from Greece in 2003, who also was the first ever entrant in that contest. The youngest winning artist was Sandra Kim, for Belgium in 1986. In her song J'aime la vie she sang she was 15 but in fact she was only 13 years old. Thanks to Benjamin from Switzerland for correcting the country Jean Jacques sang for: Monaco, not Luxembourg! In addition thanks to Peter de Vries from the Netherlands for the name of the Cypriot backing, and to Kalle Vestergaard from Denmark for the name of Lea Bundgård Artist name (most common)   The most common first name for an ESC participant has been: Marie. There have been seven of them: Marie without more, Marie N, Marie Line, Marie Myriam, Marie Christine, Marie Christie and Marie Bergmann. Very popular among women apparently also is the name Anne. Seven artists had a name starting with Anne, always in connection with another name though: Anne Karine Ström, Anne-Marie David, Annemarie B, Anne-Catherine Herdorf, Anne-Marie Godart, Annelie Saaristo and Anne Christine Nyström. Other artist names derived from Anne have been Anneke Grönloh, Annie Palmen, Annie Cotton and Ann Christie... and then of course we had Anna Vissi, Anna Maria Jopek and Anna Mjöll Ólafsóttir. Other common names for women have been Anita (without more, Thallaug, Skorgan and Traversi), Linda (Lepomme, Wagenmakers, Williams and Martin), Sandra (Kim, Simò, Reemer and Oxenryd), Elena (Paparizou, Patroklou, Konstantinopoulou, Risteska), Nathalie (Pâques, Santamaria, Sorce) and Nina (without more, Åström and Morato). Interesing about the four Anitas is that three of them have come last in ESC. The most common male artist name has been Jacques: Hustin, Pils, Philippe, Raymond and Zegers. There also have been four proper Jeans (Gabilou, Jacques (!), Philippe and Vallée) plus two Jeans in a combined first name: Jean-Claude Pascal and Jean Paul Mauric. Other common male names are Sergio (from the Ladies, Dalma, from Estebaliz and Endrigo), Daniel (twice as first name only - see below, Covac and Dupré). The name Chris has been used by men and women both: we had male Chris Doran, Roberts and Baldo and female Chris Garden and Kempers. A few artist names have been used by two different artists: Géraldine (Switzerland 1967, Luxembourg 1975), Daniel (Yugoslavia 1983 and Iceland 1989) and Michelle (Netherlands and Germany 2001). Trivia: In 2001 there were two artists called Michelle in one contest. This wasn't the first time though for the Netherlands to be represented by a singer who shared a first name with a co-competitor: in 1988 Gerard Joling had to compete against Gérard Lenorman, and in 1999 Marlayne took part for the Netherlands while Marlain Angelidou sang for Cyprus. In 1996 this had almost happened too: Gina de Wit came second in the 1996 Dutch National Final. Had she won, she'd have had to compete against Gina G for the United Kingdom. Other curiosities about artist names: - Apart from the groups Love City Groove (UK 1995) and Dschingis Khan (Germany 1979), who sung entries with same titles as the group name, the Spanish singer Nina (1989) is the only ESC artist that had an entry named after her: the Icelandic entry Nína in 1991. In 1973 though, Patrick Juvet from Switzerland sang Je vais me marier, Marie (I'm going to marry, Marie), possibly adressed to his co-competitor for Monaco, who was called Marie. - The first participants not appearing under their (not necessarily real) first and last names were The Allisons in 1961 for the United Kingdom. Rachel, the 1964 Monaco entrant was the first singer to appear on stage under her first name only. Stage names were as old as the contest: Jetty Pearl was the first not to enter under her real name. The first group to enter under a group name was Family Four from Sweden in 1971, although the Netherlands were oficially represented by Patricia and the Hearts of Soul in 1970. In fact the Hearts of Soul consisted of all three sisters Maassen, including Patricia, but before 1971 groups weren't officially allowed to participate. For the same reason the Spanish group TNT in 1964 participated under the name Tim, Nelly and Tony. Thanks to Peter de Vries from de Netherlands for his correction concerning Anne-Catherine Herdorf Artist name (longest) The longest name for a group of artists is the official name under which Luxembourg was represented in 1985. They were represented by six different artists, who didn't use a group name, but just their own (stage) names: Chris & Malcolm Roberts, Margot, Ireen Sheer, Diane Salomon and Franck Olivier. In 1991 three artists appeared under their seperate names for Turkey: Izel Celiköz, Can Ugurluer and Reyhan Karaca, but coming second in this category is the longest name for a duo: Elisabeth Andreasson and Jan Werner Danielson in 1994 for Norway. Probably David Alexandre Winter (Luxembourg 1970) holds the title for longest name for a solo artist. Thanks to Pedro Sá from Portugal for the addition of David Alexandre Winter. Artist name (shortest) The shortest name for an artist or group participating in ESC was 2B, the portuguese duo, representing their country in (the semifinal of) 2005. There have been several artists or groups with names consisting of three letters: to name a few: Max (Germany 2004), ICY (Iceland 1986), Ted (Sweden 1979), MTM (Portugal 2001), XXL (Macedonia 2000) F.L.Y. (Latvia 2003) and Nox (Hungary 2005). The shortest names for a winner are Dana (Ireland 1970). and of course ABBA (Sweden 1974). Artists returning after winning the contest   Several winners have returned to the ESC for another try. All but of course Johnny Logan so far failed to win again, although some of them came quite close. Here's a list: Lys Assia (won in 1956 with Refrain, returned in 1957 with L'enfant que j'étais and in 1958 with Giorgio, coming 2nd in 1958), Corry Brokken (won in 1957 with Net als toen but came last in 1958 with Heel de wereld ), Isabelle Aubret (won in 1962 with Un premier amour, returned in 1968 and came 3rd with La source) Gigliola Cinquetti (won in 1964 with Non ho l'età, returned in 1974 with Si and came 2nd), Anne-Marie David (won for Luxembourg in 1973 with Tu te reconnaîtras, retried for France in 1979 and came 3rd with Je suis l'enfant soleil), Jean-Claude Pascal (won in 1961 with Nous, les amoureux, returned in 1981 with C'est peut-être pas l'Amérique ) Izhar Cohen (won in 1978 with A-ba ni-bi, and came 5th in 1985 with Olé olé), Two members of the group Milk and Honey (winning group in 1979 with Hallelujah, backing Yardena Arazi in 1988 with Ben adam) Hanne Krogh (won in 1985 as part of Bobbysocks with La det swinge, returned in the group Just 4 Fun singging Mrs. Thompson in 1991), Elisabeth Andreassen (the other half of Bobbysocks, returned in 1994 in duett with late Jan Werner Danielson singing Duett and 1996 coming 2nd solo with I evighet), Paul Harrington (won in 1994 together with Charlie McGettican singing Rock 'n roll kids, backed Dawn Martin in the song Is always over now? in 1998). Carola from Sweden won the contest in 1991 with Fångad av en stormvind (and took part earlier in 1983). In 2006 Carola came 5th with Invincible. Thanks to Aviad from Israel (correction concerning Izhar Cohen), to Alex from France (Isabelle Aubret), Mickey from Portugal (Gigliola Cinquetti) and Peter de Vries from the Netherlands (Milk & Honey) Break from ESC (artist) GREECE - In 2006 Anna Vissi represented Greece. She most recently was on a Eurovision stage in 1982 representing Cyprus, thus 24 years before. Before that she also represented Greece in 1980. This makes her not only the artist with the longest gap between two participations, but also with the longest time gap between the first and last appearance (26 years).  Marie Bergman from Sweden held the record up to then. She participated in the 1994 contest together with Roger Pontare. Twenty-two years before however she had already been participating as part of the group Family Four. - Singer Jean-Claude Pascal sang in the 1981 contest for Luxembourg, twenty years after his first participation in 1961, when he won the contest with Nous, les amoureux. Tommy Körberg, performer of the Swedish entry in 1969 returned, equally impressive, after 19 years in 1988. Rivals more than once   Many artists have participated more than once. Over the last decades in almost every year there was an artist that had previously entered. The year 1985 was fuller than ever of artists that had competed before or were going to compete later. These artists are with between bracklets the years of their other participation(s) and their countries: Hot Eyes (Denmark, 1984, 1988), MFÖ (Turkey, 1988), Wind (Germany, 1987), Izhar Cohen (Israel, 1978), Al Bano and Romina Power (Italy, 1976), Hanne Krogh (part of Bobbysocks, Norway, 1971, 1991), Elisabeth Andreassen (part of Bobbysocks, Norway, 1994, 1996, for Sweden in 1982), Mariella Farrè (Switzerland, 1983), Pino Gasparini (Switzerland, 1977, part of the Pepe Lienhard Band), Kikki Danielson (Sweden, 1982), Gary Lux (Austria, 1983, 1987) and Ireen Sheer (Luxembourg, 1974, for Germany in 1978) - not to mention many of the composers and textwriters! As one can see from the above MFÖ and Hot Eyes or Gary Lux and Wind competed against each other more than once. But there were several other artists who did so: Lys Assia and Corry Brokken were rivals even in three consecutive years: 1956, 1957 and 1958. Katri-Helena from Finland and late Tommy Seebach from Denmark probably had the longest gap between the two contests they participated in together: they both participated in both 1979 and 1993. Norwegian Elisabeth Andreassen and Swedish Kikki Danielson didn't have to wait that long to be in the same contest again: three years. But were they singing together in the group Chips in 1982 (for Sweden) .. in 1985 they competed against each other and were (friendly) rivals in the voting, Elisabeth coming 1st for Norway (together with Hanne Krogh in Bobbysocks), Kikki 3rd for Sweden. Worth noting also is that the Spanish, Greek and Cypriot lead singers from 1995, Anabel Conde, Elina Konstantinopoulou and Alexandros Panagi (who also participated in 1991 as a backing, and 2000 as half of the duo Voice) were all of them backing singers in 2005. Curiously all were backing for another country: Elina and Alexandros switched country and Anabel sang for Andorra in the semifinal. There have been more artists rivalling for a second time, therefore this lists only mentions the most special cases. If we take in account composers, authors, backing singers etc. too, this list will even be much much longer, if only due to Ralph Siegel (see Winning, participating, hosting)! Thanks to Zeljko from France, Peter de Vries from the Netherlands, Humble from Norway and Wassim from Denmark for their corrections.