Topic: Eurovision Awards

[Remy]

Eurovision Awards

Hello my friends and welcome in this new thread: Eurovision Awards. The idea of this thread is to give your personal Eurovision Awards for a specific ESC year.

List of Eurovision Awards categories:

Best Song
Best Vocal Performance, Female
Best Vocal Performance, Male
Best Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group
Best Lyrics
Best Stage Performance
Best Dressed Singer

[Remy]

Let's start with ESC 1988

[Niko]

What a great idea, my dear Remy! I will certaily give my awards during the weekend!  Should we tell them here or keep up the excitement and send our votes to you by PM ?

[Remy]

Thank you, Niko  Great that you like this idea. 

You can give your awards here. This thread is not meant as a voting, but to take a look at each others choices.

[Niko]

Ok, then, I will start thinking about them tomorrow. 

[Martial]

i don't think best postcard should be an award, most of the times the singers don't get to chose anyway (remember the insulting cliché postcards in 79 or 84)
on the other hand "best backing singers" should be included
i also did the esc awards in the past, though i kinda forgot who were my winners in each category

[Martial]

i also think we should nominate three names per category and put in bold the one we vote for !

[Remy]

i also think we should nominate three names per category and put in bold the one we vote for !

It's a nice idea to turn this into a contest. The only problem is that there are too many choices, so the chance is little that we get a winner in each category.

[Martial]

true, true, but still.. if we all nominate our three faves.. then it's 1pt per nomination but 2 if it's our "winner" (the one we would chose, in bold as i said), then we can see who gets the most pts ?

[Remy]

That is a good idea. I think it's best if everyone send their choices to me and that I will publish the results here after a few weeks.

[Remy]

On the other hand: it might be boring to wait long for the results. Maybe it's better if everyone write down their choices in this thread.

[Martial]

Three nominations is maybe not enough, especially if we want our votes to overlap, tell me if you want five instead?
So i used the list system, and i put them in alphabetical order based on the name of the country !

1988
Best Song

• "Laissez briller le soleil" (Belgium)
• "Shangri-la" (The Netherlands)
• "Sufi" (Turkey)

Best Female Vocal Performance

• Lara Fabian (Luxembourg)
• Kirsten Siggaard (Norway)
• Céline Dion (Switzerland)

Best Male Vocal Performance

• Gérard Lenorman (France)
• Gerard Joling (Netherlands)
• Tommy Körberg (Sweden)

Best Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group

• Boulevard (Finland)
• Beathoven (Iceland)
• MFÖ (Turkey)

Best Lyrics

• Claude Lemesle (France)
• Alain Garcia (Luxembourg)
• Anita Skorgan (Norway)

Best Stage Performance

• Yardena Arazi (Israel)
• Hot Eyes (Denmark)
• Céline Dion (Switzerland)

Best Dressed Singer

• Yardena Arazi (Israel)
• Luca Barbarossa (Italy)
• Dora (Portugal)

[Niko]

The bold ones are my number ones, I think.

1988
Best Song

• "Ben Adam"(Israel)
• "Croire" (Luxembourg)
• "Stad i ljus" (Sweden)

Best Female Vocal Performance

• Yardena Arazi (Israel)
• Lara Fabian (Luxembourg)
• Céline Dion (Switzerland)

Best Male Vocal Performance

• Gérard Lenorman (France)
• Luca Barbarossa (Italy)
• Tommy Körberg (Sweden)

Best Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group

• Boulevard (Finland)
• Kirsten Siggaard (Denmark)
• Jump The Gun (Ireland)

Best Lyrics

• Pepe Willberg (Finland)
• Claude Lemesle (France)
• Py Bäckman (Sweden)

Best Stage Performance

• Yardena Arazi (Israel)
• Hot Eyes (Denmark)
• Lara Fabian (Luxembourg)

Best Dressed Singer

• Peter Eades (Ireland)
• Luca Barbarossa (Italy)
• Dora (Portugal)

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[Remy]

Thank you, Morgan & Niko, for giving your list! 

I think that three choices will be enough. I'm thinking about my own list now. 

p.s.: You don't have "Best Postcard".

[Martial]

i already stated clearly i was against best postcards award since each entries do not get to chose their postcards (a lot of critiques on cliché about countries were made in 79 or 84 for instance)

on the other hand we could vote for best preview videos ? (i have them all in my computer lol insane i know) but they're all in youtube too i think

[Remy]

Okay, we don't have Best Postcard then. I will find other Awards for next editions.

For 1988, this are the Awards:

Best Song
Best Vocal Performance, Female
Best Vocal Performance, Male
Best Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group
Best Lyrics
Best Stage Performance
Best Dressed Singer

[Remy]

1988
Best Song

• Netherlands: "Shangri-La" performed by Gerard Joling
• Switzerland: "Ne partez pas sans moi" performed by Céline Dion
• Yugoslavia: "Mangup" performed by Srebrna Krila

Best Vocal Performance, Female

• Luxembourg: Lara Fabian
• Norway: Karoline Krüger
• Switzerland: Céline Dion

Best Vocal Performance, Male

• Italy: Luca Barbarossa
• Netherlands: Gerard Joling
• Sweden: Tommy Körberg

Best Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group

• Denmark: Hot Eyes
• Israel: Yardena Arazi
• Yugoslavia: Srebrna Krila

Best Lyrics

• Norway: "For vår jord"
• Switzerland: "Ne partez pas sans moi"
• Yugoslavia: "Mangup"

Best Stage Performance

• Israel: Yardena Arazi
• Switzerland: Céline Dion
• Yugoslavia: Srebrna Krila

Best Dressed Singer

• France: Gérard Lenorman
• Israel: Yardena Arazi
• Portugal: Dora