Fomins & Kleins

The Latvian rock band Fomins & Kleins was founded at the end of 2002. Its members Ivo Fomins and Tomass Kleins were already accomplished and wellknown rock musicians. Both are from the western Latvian city of Liepāja, which is famous for its rock music traditions.

Both have worked together previously, in Soviet times forming the underground group Saldās Sejas, which also featured well known Latvian musicians Zigfrīds Muktupāvels and Guntars Račs.

At the end of 2002, the band signed a contract with the largest local record company Mikrofona Ieraksti. At the start of 2003, the first song that they recorded together, Sniegs, brought the group success at radio stations, as well as winning 3rd place at the LNT Music Video Competition. The next single Solījums is often played on many Latvian radio stations, and the song's video is frequently shown on television and was nominated for the Best Music Video Award at the Latvian Music Awards. In July, the musicians participated in the international festival "Baltic Song Contest" in Sweden and achieved fourth place. The festival itself is shown on Swedish television as well as Polish television.

The group's debut album Muzikants was released in 2003, and the album's title track became a huge hit after the duo successfully performed at the Latvian national final for the Eurovision Song Contest and gained a convincing second place with the song Muzikants. That year it was the only song to be performed in Latvian and the public was on its feet during the performance.

In 2004 they again found themselves singing the only Latvian-language song in the Latvian Eurovision pre-selection. This time they won, and the song Dziesma Par Laimi was selected as Latvia's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 in Istanbul where they stranded in the semi-final. Nevertheless, they subsequently remained upbeat about the experience, and about Latvia's future in the contest.

Fomins & Kleins frequently give concerts and are still very successful.

Sofia Källgren/Robert Wells

Anna Sofia Helena Källgren, known as Sofia Källgren (born 17 August 1970, Högsbo, Sweden), is a Swedish singer.

In 1982 she debuted on the TV-program Gomorron Sverige on Sveriges Television. In 1986 she performed the song I Know Him So Well from Chess in a televised talent show Folkparkernas Talangjakt. In 1987 she was awarded the Ulla Billquist-scholarship.

Sofia entered the song Världen Är Vacker to try to participate in Melodifestivalen 1989. The song was not selected, but she was offered to perform the song Världen Är Vår with Visitors which came 7th, in Melodifestivalen 1990 Sofia entered again and performed Handen På Hjärtat solo backed up by three dancers wearing partial fursuits. Handen På Hjärtat finished 4th and in 2003 Sofia Källgren sang a duet with Robert Wells but their song My Love stranded in the semi-finals of Melodifestivalen.

Robert Wells (born April 7, 1962 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish pianist, composer and singer, best known for his highly successful musical extravaganza Rhapsody in Rock which has achieved great prominence in Scandinavia, a mixture of rock, classical and boogie-woogie. Robert participated in 1987 at Melodifestivalen with the song Sommarnatt which didn't reach the top 6. Robert Wells played piano during the Belarus entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 Butterflies performed by 3+2.

Andrew Carrington

Andrew Carrington (April 16 1977 in Australia) is an Australian singer.

Andrew Carrington is an Australian singer from Cairns and former leadsinger of the Australian Ten Tenors. Andrew lives in Berlin with his German wife. He studied saxophone and classical singing.

Andrew covered for his album a couple of Eurovision songs.

Grupa 777

Grupa 777 was a Croatian music group and very popular and successful in Yugoslavia in the 70s and 80s. They performed at many festivals and had lots of hits. They toured Yugoslavia, Russia and Germany.

Grupa 777 participated fout times in the Yugoslav pre-selection for the ESC:

• 1974 - Hey Curo Mala, 8th,
• 1984 - Zbogom, 9th
• 1987 - Spavaj, Samo Spavaj, 15th
• 1988 - Tiha Noc, 4th

Interval acts - 2007: Apocalyptica

Apocalyptica is a instrumental heavy metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 1993. The band is composed of classically trained cellists Eicca Toppinen, Paavo Lötjönen, and Perttu Kivilaakso and drummer Mikko Sirén.

Originally a Metallica tribute band, their music borrows elements from many genres including classical music, neo-classical metal, progressive metal, thrash metal, and symphonic metal.

They have sold over three million albums to date. In 2007 they performed during the interval act at the Eurovision Song Contest final.

Sedat Yüce

Sedat Yüce is a Turkish pop singer and musician who participated 5 times at the Turkish pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest which he won only once.

• In 1993 Sedat was a backing singer in the Turkish pre-selection for Sebnem Özsaran.
• In 1996 Sedat took part with the song Vazgeç which came 3rd.
• In 1999 he sang the song Birak Beni which didn't reach the top 3.
• In 2001 he won the Turkish national final with the song Sevgiliye Son which came 11th inStockholm.
• In 2005 he took part with the song Yeniden which didn't reach the top 2.

Behave

Behave is a Dutch band consisting of Michiel Cremers, Gerjan Schreuder, Junior Vogel and Jeroen de Haan.

In 2006 Behave participated in the Dutch national final with three songs. The song Heaven Knows was a small hit for Behave in the Netherlands and came 2nd in the Dutch pre-selection.