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ESCTODAY.COM: Sven Lõhmus wins Composer of the year award
The 2009 esctoday.com Award for Best duo/group vocal performance goes to... ...Sven Lõhmus of Estonia This is the fifth esctoday.com award for Estonia both this year and overall. Previous awards have been won for Best duo/group performance, Most creative effort, Best arrangement and production and Best dressed act. The award for Composer of the year has previously gone to Zeljko Joksimovic (Bosnia & Herzegovina) in 2006, Magdi Rúzsa (Hungary) in 2007 and Andrej Babic (Portugal) in 2008. Sven Lõhmus won in this category very narrowly ahead of the famous songwriting team from the United Kingdom. 2009 Eurovision Song Contest winner Alexander Rybak follows in third place.
ESCTODAY.COM: Urban Symphony win Best dressed act award
The 2009 esctoday.com Award for Best dressed act goes to... ...Urban Symphony of Estonia This is already the fourth esctoday.com award for Estonia this year following victories in the categories Best duo/group performance, Most creative effort and Best arrangement and production. Previously, this award has gone to Kate Ryan (Belgium) in 2006, Sopho (Georgia) in 2007 and Ani Lorak (Ukraine) in 2008. It is therefore the first time that this award does not go to a female soloist but rather to an all-female band. Urban Symphony win this award ahead of Jade Ewen with Patricia Kaas being very closely behind. Regina, the only male act nominated, finished fourth.
ESCTODAY.COM: Sven Lõhmus wins Best arrangement and production award
The 2009 esctoday.com Award for Best duo/group vocal performance goes to...
Sven Lõhmus wrote the arrangement for and produced the Estonian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. Performed by Urban Symphony, Rändajad finished third in the second semi final and sixth in the final. This is the third esctoday.com award for Estonian both this year and overall. Sven Lõhmus has worked with many Baltic music acts including Vanilla Ninja, who later represented Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005. He also wrote the song that represented Estonia in the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest; Let's get loud finished 20th in the semi final. He has his own record label in Estonia and hit songs he wrote and produced include Club Kung Fu by Vanilla Ninja and Moonwalk by Laura, runner-up entry in the 2005 Estonian national final. Sven Lõhmus won in this category ahead of French producer Frédéric Helbert. However, all nominees did rather well with only roughly 10% between the first and fifth placed nominees.
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