The German preliminary round of the 60th Euro Vision Song Contest (ESC) has ended on Thursday night in Hanover with a scandal: the winner of the audience vote, going Andreas explained at its option surprising his decision not to participate in the final on 23 May in Vienna. Instead, now is the runner-up, the 24-year-old from Hamburg Ann Sophie, start
“I’m not really in the Constitution, to accept it,” the 28-year-old said after his victory , The waiver cares is unprecedented in the history of German ESC. Takes care based its surprising for everyone present rejection so that he believed that he could not as good as the vanquished by him in the audience vote Ann Sophie. Further details did not make the 2013 in the talent show “The Voice” successful singer. In the program was only known that was going lined with high fever for the preliminary round.
Women sexist insults?
In the run-up to the finale, it had also been media reports that going to have offended sexist women at a concert. The decision of the singer sparked the public outrage and astonishment, there were many boos. In this commotion, the presenter Barbara Schoneberg said the singer Ann Sophie the German participant in the ECS-final in Vienna. “You go now to Vienna” Beautiful Berger said without further consultation with the German officer.
The young singer, who had only participation gained at a club concert in February in the preliminary reacted visibly unsettled on the surprising inflection. “Do you want that?” She asked doubtfully into the audience. But presenter Schöneberg was apparently unwilling to give rise to larger discussions – she said “yes, they want” and let Ann Sophie sing their song. You will now compete with “Black Smoke” the ESC final.
International experience brings with Hamburg. She was born in London and went with 20 to New York to study acting. She also started her music career singing in bars and took her first self-written songs.
guest appearance by Conchita Wurst
The bearded drag queen diva Conchita Wurst gave the show glamor. The Austrian ESC winner 2014 presented at the start of their winning song from last year, “Rise Like a Phoenix”, and before deciding her new song “You Are Unstoppable”.
The Euro Vision Song Contest to be held in This year marks the 60th time. Competition is the world’s most popular music competition every year about 120 million television viewers look to it. In this year’s anniversary edition also starts for the first time in Australia. Send your Australian pop singer Guy Sebastian to Vienna. He had won the 2003 the talent show “Idol Australia”. Australia was an exception, a start right because the local audience are considered particularly passionate ESC fans.
Eight solo artists and bands are set to vote the spectators who were able to vote by telephone and SMS. In the semifinals, Ann Sophie and Andrew won going against the Berlin-female band Laing and nominated for the Echo singer Alexa Feser. Mrs. Green Bird, Faun, Fahrenhaidt and Noize Generation were eliminated after their first song
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(APA / AFP / AP)
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