After being postponed from 22nd of May, the final night of Top Fest 8 was held yesterday in Pallati I Kongreseve. Among the 17 finalists we find Anjeza Shahini, who together with won the prize for "Best interpret" Dren Abazi with the song Ti dhe unë. You can watch the performance below.
The winner of the competition this year edition, was the big favourite Elvana Gjata, who took part in Top Fest for the first time. Elvana took part in Festivali i Këngës in 2003, where her entry was followed by a song called "Me ty", which is the title of her Top Fest song! The song is dedicated to the Albanian artist Emmy, who died earlier this year. You can watch the winning performance here, together with the other performances (among them some other earlier FiK participants).
Together with Zig Zag Orchestra, Anjeza Shahini presented the entry Ti dhe unë in the forth week in this years edition of Top Fest. You can take a look at the song below:
NRG Band also presented an entry called Rina Rina earlier in Top Fest 8. And the withdrew their entry Mina-Mina before the last edition of FiK...
We will keep you updated on the development of Top Fest at AV. And don't forget to tune in on Sunday!
In times of no news, Albavision uses that situation to bring some articles about the past. In the first episode of "Flashback", we want to take a closer look at Anjeza Shahihi and the song "Ne pasqyre", which would have represented Albania in the ESC 2010 if Juliana had denied to travel to Oslo for Albania, because Anjeza came second in the FiK 2009.
It was with Anjeza, when Albania debuted in the ESC 2004, managing to land a place 7 on the final ranking with the song "The Image of You". To this day no other participant set a better score for us. The news of Anjeza Shahini being back to the Festivali i kenges 2009 was therefore big news in November '09. High hopes of a second representation by Anjeza at the ESC could be felt of many ESC fans, making her the favourite to win the 48th FiK.
Anjeza at FiK '09
In November (09) the newspaper "Shekulli" published an Interview with Anjeza in which she talked about the song she would compete with and her attitude to another ESC representation. She made clear it would be the traditional Festival she returns to not the ESC in first place, nonetheless saying that she would not reject an offer for a ticket to Oslo. Additionally she told the magazine that Sokol Marsi, the composer of "Ne pasqyre" came to Anjeza and asked her if she would interprete that song at the Festivali i kenges as he had thought her voice fitted perfectly for the song.
The day of Albanian National final 2009 had come and it was Anjeza Shahini opening the whole festival as act #1 of night 1, receiving an outstanding welcome by the audience.
See Anjezas performance at the FiK 2009 below
These are the english lyrics translated by Albavision :
In the mirror
You appear in my mirror,
always a different face.
I want to touch it, it does not speak
One piece of crystal without life.
Maybe it doesn't like me and will fool me.
How I'd like to say, that it's still me.
Refrain:
No, I don't believe you,
I'm still the same i was yesterday, only with make up,
don't fool me.
No, better forget it.
You're an unreal mask,
you don't let me breathe, you're lifeless.
Behind the mirror I search you.
I fear that you may break.
I fear to touch you,
so we both cannot break.
No, I still don't know
why are you still looking into my eyes?
What it does and doesn't show me at the same time.
Belive me, it's still me.
Refrain
Refrain 2:
I don't know why i love you.
I don't know why i hate you.
You are another me,
my real me would not fool me.
I do not belive the mirror anymore
I'm still the one I was yesterday.
This make-up only only fools the eyes
and the soul doesn't recongnize itself anymore.
Refrain
Refrain 2
When the voting procedure on the final night began, the first juries awarded their highscore of 20 points to Juliana Pasha and "Nuk mundem pa ty" a song which was a actually mostly unnoticed song in the line-up and all those sets of 20 points for Juliana made the whole voting phase look a bit inter-coordinated and monotone. The winner was clear after the first few sets of votes, with a distance to place two that couldn't be overtaken anyhow. Nevertheless, the only set of 20 points to Anjeza Shahini of one of the last jury member catapulted Anjeza onto place 2 and made the crowd go exessively wild, which had been never seen before in the National final (possibly only Kejsi's win in 2008 had a likewise euphoric crowd) and makes that moment a historic moment in the long history of FiK.
This was the first Flashback. Hope you like these kind of articles....
After being postponed from 22nd of May, the final night of Top Fest 8 was held yesterday in Pallati I Kongreseve. Among the 17 finalists we find Anjeza Shahini, who together with won the prize for "Best interpret" Dren Abazi with the song Ti dhe unë. You can watch the performance below.
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