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.
- Urban Symphony (Estonia) - 26.4%
- Jade Ewen (United Kingdom) - 20.7%
- Patricia Kaas (France) - 20.1%
- Regina (Bosnia & Herzegovina) - 18.1%
- Malena Ernman (Sweden) - 14.7%
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.
ESCTODAY.COM: Estonian team wins Most creative effort award
The 2009 esctoday.com Award for Most creative effort goes to... ..Rändajad of Estonia, written by Sven Lõhmus and performed by Urban Symphony Rändajad was the Estonian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. Performed by Urban Symphony, it finished third in the second semi final and sixth in the final. This is the second esctoday.com award for Estonia both this year and overall having achieved their first award yesterday in the Best duo/group performance category. This award was given out for the first time. The Estonian entry was written by Sven Lõhmus. Rändajad was probably the first Eurovision Song Contest to mix Electronic music with a classical strings arrangment. Sandra Nurmsalu is one of the few lead singers to have also played the violin on stage, the only others being Egon Egemann (Switzerland 1990) and Alexander Rybak (Norway 2009). This was a very tight decision and the Estonian entry won with only 0.2% ahead of the Ukrainian entry Be my Valentine (Anti-crisis girl). The voting between the third and fourth place was equally close but saw the Portuguese entry finishing ahead of the winning entry from Norway. Armenia closes the category.
Only good news for Urban Symphony this year. Happy holidays!
esctoday.com: Urban Symphony win Best duo/group performance award
The votes for the fourth annual esctoday.com awards have been cast over the last three and a half weeks and now it is time to reveal the results. The 2009 esctoday.com Award for Best duo/group performance goes to...
This is the very first esctoday.com award for Estonia and therefore also the first victory in this category. Previously, this award has gone to Lordi (Finland) in 2006, D'Nash (Spain) in 2007 and Euroband (Iceland) in 2008. Urban Symphony were the clear winners of this category ahead of AySel & Arash from Azerbaijan. Portugal's Flor-de-Lis follow in third place.
This news comes just on Christmas and every Urban Symphony fan is now happier! Merry Christmas to everybody! Urban Symphony at Eestima Uhkus"Eestima uhkus has been held every year since 2004. This event honours people who are helping other people and their society."
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