Canberra musician’s Eurovision mission

When she was only one year old she was already singing the song ‘Seventh Wonder’ by Ira Losco. She was a little girl with a dream. A dream to one day represent our country in the Malta Eurovision Song Contest. She was only 17 years old when she took part for the first time and twenty-four years old when she ended up winning the contest. ADVERTISEMENT SCROLL TO CONTINUE This is the story of Miriana Conte, who will now represent our country in th…

Canberra musician’s Eurovision mission

A Canberra musician is taking on the world’s biggest song contest – Eurovision (the very same one that launched ABBA) – but he’s not representing Australia, Chris Endrey is playing for the tiny Republic of San Marino. The reason being, the cost of living forced Chris to migrate to Hungary and whilst in Europe, he attended a Eurovision song-writing camp in Norway and discovered that San Marino (a microstate in Italy with just 33,419 people) welco…

It's the 10 year anniversary of Australia being allowed to compete in Eurovision

On the morning of 11 February, 2015 a monumental proclamation was made - Australia would compete as a one-off (lol) wildcard at Eurovision that year. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), who organises Eurovision, and Australian broadcaster SBS made the historic announcement. In a video, Australian commentator Julia Zemiro addressed Eurovision fans across the world. "I've got some very exciting news to share with you," she said. "This year at t…