![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are lots of surprises yet to be announced, so stay tuned to wiwibloggs to find out who else will be joining the roster. The London Eurovision Party takes place on Sunday 16 April at HERE at Outernet. The London show will be a chance for our stars to perform for a British crowd before they make the trip up north to Liverpool in May. The party will see a selection of artists from the class of 2023, and song contest alumni, descend on the British capital. London Eurovision Party is the UK’s biggest Eurovision warm-up show. This attempt proved much more successful, with the North Macedonian star not only qualifying but also winning the jury vote in the grand final.įollowing Belgrade and Tel Aviv, Tamara is now heading over to London to share her music with us in April. Tamara returned a decade later at the 2019 contest with the song “Proud”. Performing “Let Me Love You” alongside Vrčak and Adrian Gaxha, the trio just missed out on a spot in the grand final. Televoters were slightly less impressed and put her in the 12th position, giving North Macedonia a very respectable 7th place overall.Tamara Todevska first took to the Eurovision stage in 2008. The juries absolutely loved her, giving her the most points out of all countries. She improved throughout, hitting all the big notes towards the end. Tamara Todevska performed her empowering and emotional, yet quite traditional ballad ‘Proud’ with passion, although the nerves did influence her voice at the start of the performance somewhat. North Macedonia was easily the biggest suprise to me in the result show. Review on her final performance and result: I can’t wait to hear this again on Saturday! Tamara brought her country to the final for the first time since 2012 and she can definitely be proud of both that and her emotive performance tonight. The visuals on the screen behind her are powerful, but it is her outstanding voice and interpretation of the lyrics that leaves a true impression. Tamara Todevska belted out the traditional ballad ‘Proud’ with a progressive message for women’s rights, aimed at young girls. What we need from her is a vocally powerful and pitch perfect performance and then she could and should snatch that ticket to the grand final! North Macedonia really needs a place in the final at this point and the bookmakers seem to believe in Tamara’s chances, placing her 9th out of 18 in the second semi final at the time of writing. If she and her team could find ways to make this message even more clear in the stage act, this will definitely help them stand out. The message of the lyrics however, is a lot more progressive, as Todevska gives advice to young girls to follow their path and become who they want to be in a male dominated world. The chorus could be described as dramatic and bombastic and it seems tailor-made for Eurovision, although one could wonder if it does not sound too traditional to make an impression in 2019. ‘Proud’ is a big, traditional ballad that starts out with just piano and Tamara’s vocals, but builds to a climax with strings and some proper ad libs. Tamara Todevska performs a song co-composed by Darko Dimitrov, who worked on a handful of previous Macedonian Eurovision entries, including Elena Risteska’s ‘Ninanajna’ which finished 12th in 2006, still the country’s best result to date. Todevska is trying her luck with power ballad ‘Proud’ this time! Their track ‘Let Me Love You’ reached the 10th position in their semi final, which normally is enough to qualify, but back then juries picked one finalist other than the top 9 in televoting and opted for Sweden instead of the Macedonian entry. In 2019 they bring back Tamara Todevska who participated in Eurovision in 2008, together with Vrčak and Adrian. Their country, which was formerly known as the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia, but is now called North Macedonia, has reached the final of the contest only once in over ten years! The last time we saw them perform during the big final was in 2012, when Kaliopi reached the 13th place with ‘Crno I Belo’. ![]() The Macedonians desperately need some Eurovision success. The 1980s was the decade of big hair, big phones, pastel suits, Cabbage Patch Kids, Rubik’s cubes, Yuppies, Air Jordans, shoulder pads and Pac Man. North Macedonia brings back Tamara Todevska with power ballad ‘Proud’ Tamara Todevska is turning 39 in Tamara was born in the 1980s. ![]()
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