The Contestants
Every day we present one contestant of the OGAEvision Song Contest 2018, so come back until you know them all !
Germany | Sweden | United Kingdom | |
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Christian Deußen | Carro & Niko Facebook | Website | #CarroAndNiko Meet the Contestants (click on the picture for a small impression !) | Sam Rabey Facebook | Website | #SamRabey Meet the Contestant (click on the picture for a small impression !) | |
Christian Deußen was born in the Rhineland close to Düsseldorf and lives in Munich now for 16 years. Beside his profession as a goldsmith, he has been performing musically at home and abroad for 25 years. | Carro (29 years old) and Niko (30 years old) met in Berlin at the Eurovision Weekend last year when Carro represented Sweden (second place) and Niko represented Finland (third place). Both of them have musical backgrounds singing in bands and Carro attended a 3 year long education when she was majoring in singing and dancing. They can’t wait and are really excited to go to Berlin and meet all the fabulous people again and put on a show for you all! XOXO | Hello and welcome my name is Sam Rabey, I'm 28 from Cornwall and I'm representing OGAE UK in this year's OGAEvision Song contest. I have always sang from a young age which lead me to studying music at college. The decade after I didn't do anything until I joined OGAE UK in 2015. I have followed Eurovision religiously since 2003 and went to Stockholm 2016 and loved every minute. I am also another winner of the UK's Eurostars in 2016 as the Queen Verka Serduchka. I have also done Tooji and Hovi Star. Outside of Eurovision I'm a keen archer, into politics and looking after my beagle Toby. I hope to meet you all in Berlin, I cannot wait to give you a great show and hope to have the greatest time :) | |
| representing the German fan clubs
with the song "Flieger" | representing OGAE Sweden  with the song "Stay The Night" originally sung by Alcazar (Melodifestivalen 2009 Sweden) | representing OGAE UK  with the song "Beautiful Mess" originally sung by Kristian Kostov (Eurovision Song Contest 2017, Bulgaria, 2nd place) | |
| Finland | Bulgaria | Malta | |
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Jacques Ville-Naef Facebook | Website | #JacquesVilleNaef Meet the Contestant (click on the picture for a small impression !) | Malomir Ingilizov Facebook | Website | #MalomirIngilizov Meet the Contestant (click on the picture for a small impression !) | Grecia Bezzina Facebook | Website | #GreciaBezzina Meet the Contestant (click on the picture for a small impression !) | |
Jacques Ville-Naef is ESC fan from Finland. He loves singing, and can be found often performing his favourite music acts in karaoke bars and cruises around the Baltic Sea. Jacques aka Ville loves to arrange parties and get-togethers, and besides Eurovision he is a big fan of Lego bricks, TV themes and commercials jingles. His first memory (or least he thinks so) is Sonja Lumme with Eläköön elämä from 1985. He was 5 and half years old, after that he remembers watching every year and also is a huge fan of Melodifestivalen since 2002. His favourite Eurovision entry is UK 1983, Never Giving Up, nd the best ESC related song ever for him is Something In Your Eyes by Jenny Silver from Melodifestivalen 2011. | My name is Malomir Ingilizov. I’m representing OGAE Bulgaria. I’m a singer, professional sport dancer and a piano player. I graduated the National School for Music and Stage Art in Burgas. My music career began when I was 5 years old. I took part in many competitions for singers in Bulgaria. I watched Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in 2010, when Lena’s Satellite won for Germany. I was really impressed by the great audience, the stage and all of the performers’ acts. | Grecia Bezzina was born on the 27th September of 1992 and is from St Venera, Malta. From an early age she showed initiative and participated in a number of school activities but it was only when she was eight years old that she decided to take up singing seriously and began attending lessons under the direction of Doreen Galea. From there on, Grecia started taking part in various musicals and whilst also participated in various singing festivals in which she always achieved fulfilling results. In December 2016, Grecia had the opportunity to direct the school choir for a fundraising concert held by Malta’s own ‘golden-voiced’ tenor Joseph Calleja, which took place at San Andrea School. Grecia graduated as a teacher in 2015 from the University of Malta and she is now a teacher at San Andrea School, Mgarr. Grecia is spirited and always aims at achieving whatever she believes in; her determination is surely one of her biggest assets and always strives in excelling in whatever she does. | |
| representing OGAE Finland  with the song "My Friend" originally sung by Jacques Houdek (Eurovision Song Contest 2017, Croatia, 13th place) | representing OGAE Bulgaria  with the song "Rise Like A Phoenix" originally sung by Conchita Wurst (Eurovision Song Contest 2014, Austria, winner) | representing OGAE Malta  with the song"Everything" originally sung by Anna Vissi(Eurovision Song Contest 2006, Greece, 9th place) | |
| San Marino | Ukraine | Israel | |
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| Basti | Constantin Crystallum Facebook | Website | #ConstantinCrystallum Meet the Contestant (click on the picture for a small impression !) | AÝA Facebook | Website | #AÝA Meet the Contestant (click on the picture for a small impression !) | |
Sebastian Schmidt, known as Basti, is a singer from Germany. Born and raised in a small town, Basti decided at a young age that he wanted to see the world and spread his music. His biggest dream is to perform at the big stage of the Eurovision Song Contest and with being a finalist at San Marino’s pre-selection 2018 he got a little closer to achieve his dream. | Constantin Crystallum was born in Nikolaev (Ukraine) in 1997. He graduated from music school in piano class, accordion and vocals. At university he studied pop vocal. He is a laureate and diplomat of many Ukrainian vocal competitions, such as "Vivat Marin 2016" (Odessa), "PERFORMANCE JAZZ 2016" (Nikolaev), "Nikolaev has talents 2014", "Students of Nikolaev Fest 2015", "PRODvizhenie 2016". Also invited to the MCC 2018. | I'm AÝA, 25, pop singer, based in Berlin. Since I was 6 years old I knew I wanted to be a singer, holding hairbrush and singing in front of the mirror, while my sisters laughing at me. We grew up together, three sisters in one small bedroom, full of huge dreams. The first step in fulfilling my dreams was moving from the tiniest city in Israel (Arad) to the biggest, Tel Aviv! I was 12 when I packed my stuff and told my mother that I'm moving out. I was really lucky because she never stopped me from doing what I thought was right for me. With 20 I organized my own band and started performing my own material all over Israel. A year after I was part of "the next star of Israel“ where I took the 4th place, and even sang an original song named "Besheket Leehov" at the semi-final. After a year I got amazing offer to move to Berlin and start developing an international career. My debut single „Confused Chest“ was released two weeks ago, it’s the first song I wrote in English and it seems like my journey has just started... | |
representing OGAE Rest of the World  with the song "Stay" (San Marinese preselection "1in360" 2018) | representing OGAE Ukraine  with the song "Fairytale" originally sung by Alexander Rybak (Eurovision Song Contest 2009, Norway, winner) | representing OGAE Israel  with the song "Hasheket she'nishar" originally sung by Shiri Maimon (Eurovision Song Contest 2005, Israel, 5th place) |
Idea and rules
The third edition of the OGAEvision Song Contest, a contest among fans from different countries, has become an essential part of the Eurovision Weekend.
Again the fan clubs have the right to nominate a candidate representing their fan club in the OGAEvision Song Contest of the Eurovision Weekend, they are free in their choice and can nominate any act they identify with. So the competition is between the fan clubs as well as between their representatives. For the right to take part in the contest, all member organisations of OGAE international can apply to the OGAEvision team, the number of participants is limited to twelve, so it`s "first come, first serve". So fan clubs are asked to register as soon as possible, if they want to take part, and then choose one act to represent them, that’s completely up to the fan club ! Any Eurovision entry or preselection entry is allowed, but no song can be sung twice, songs with a wide variety of languages, decades and style are always welcome, as we celebrate diversity !
NEWS (January 2018):
Only the first twelve fan clubs to register will be in the competition…so far there are nine countries confirmed:
Idea and rules
The third edition of the OGAEvision Song Contest, a contest among fans from different countries, has become an essential part of the Eurovision Weekend.
Again the fan clubs have the right to nominate a candidate representing their fan club in the OGAEvision Song Contest of the Eurovision Weekend, they are free in their choice and can nominate any act they identify with. So the competition is between the fan clubs as well as between their representatives. For the right to take part in the contest, all member organisations of OGAE international can apply to the OGAEvision team, the number of participants is limited to twelve, so it`s "first come, first serve". So fan clubs are asked to register as soon as possible, if they want to take part, and then choose one act to represent them, that’s completely up to the fan club ! Any Eurovision entry or preselection entry is allowed, but no song can be sung twice, songs with a wide variety of languages, decades and style are always welcome, as we celebrate diversity !
Idea: Twelve representatives of fan clubs compete in the OGAEvision Song Contest 2018.
Entry: Every member fan club of OGAE International can nominate a candidate for the OGAEvision Song Contest, the Leadership Team of each fan club decides about the procedure of the nomination.
Juries: During the contest representatives of each competing fan club build the fan club jury, the audience also awards points for their TOP 3.
Voting: The participating fan clubs award points from 1 to 12 and - like in Eurovision - you cannot vote for your own fan club. The voting procedure for the fan club juries is like in former Eurovision times (all votes announced by spokespersons of the participating fan clubs), then the accumulated votes of the audience will be announced, so that the public vote will reveal the winner in the end.
Nominations: Every member fan club of OGAE International can take part, but there are only twelve acts in the contest, so a quick registration for the participation in general is recommended.
The nomination of the act itself has to be given to the organising team until the 22nd of April 2018, so that promotion for the participants of your fan club is already possible during the ESC in Kiev.
Support: The fan clubs nominating acts are asked to support their entry like a delegation and give their acts the best possible conditions to be successful (any idea welcome).