Italians are making the most of their isolation by singing together and playing music for their neighbours from their balconies during the lockdown. Italy's death toll has crossed 1,400, the highest in the world outside China.

A one-of-a-kind event was held in Azerbaijan as part of the kick off celebration of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. People who attended reported that a large number of young people gathered at Baku sea front to fly sky lanterns into the sky. Beautiful!

Belgium enters song in Gobbledegook. Eurovision liberalized restrictions on permitted languages, prompting Belgium's Urban Trad to enter a song called Sanomi, which had lyrics from a made-up language.

In his recent remarks to congress, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke of his countrymen and women, and of his land, in loving terms. I immediately remembered the poetry of Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934) set by David Nowakowsky (1848-1921), of the Brodsky Synagogue in Odessa, which evokes ...

On Saturday the 21st of April, 23 participating countries for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest gathered in Amsterdam for a press event and a concert. They all performed their song in front of a record breaking crowd in one of Amsterdam's famous venues: De Melkweg

​Mahmood & BLANCO won the 72nd Festival di Sanremo with their song 'Brividi' and with it the opportunity to represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest on home soil in Turin. This will be Mahmood’s second Eurovision appearance having already represented Italy with his song 'Soldi' in 2019, finis

Anja finished second in Melodi Grand Prix last year but came back to make her childhood dream come true by representing Denmark in Eurovision Song Contest. She is 21 years old and was born and raised in Australia, but both her parents are Danish and most of her relatives lives in Denmark. In 2014 sh...

Dance is one of those art forms where a person has to be in alignment with his soul. One such dancer our world is blessed to have is Ukrainian born Slavik Pustovoytov (aka Vik White). Slavik got recognition as he took part in the 15th season of the well-known dance competition program So You Think Y...

The latest Heritage Minute is also the first LGBT one. It recounts the story of gay activist Jim Egan and his battle for equality. Xtra is a Canadian channel for LGBT culture and news. For more lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender news: https://www.dailyxtra.com/

Israel selected it's representative for the locally-hosted Eurovision Song Contest 2019. Four finalists were left in "The Next Star for Eurovision" ("HaKochav Haba") in Israel. And after several weeks of auditions and shows, tonight the final took place. Kobi Marimi won the talent show The Next Star...