News from the Orient

The Turkish Band "MaNga", that finished second this year at the Eurovision Songcontest is going to be one of the guests at the Festivali i këngës next week. They said to be performing on the first evening, which means on the first semifinal on 23rd December. Earlier we already knew about Juliana Pasha being one of the guest appearances at FiK 2010. MaNga is therefore the second guest act to be announced.

Yesterday, it has been the 5th semifinal show in the Azeri National Final. From each semi final one candidate is voted into the final. The format first searches for voices and afterwards for the right song, just like winning country Germany did for this years ESC. The winner of yesterdays semi final heat, Aynishan Gulijeva, made it into the final with her interpretation of "Carry me into your dreams", Albania's competing song at the ESC 2009.

Whether her vocal skills and performance can reach Kejsi is discutable, but her English skills don't reach out by far. Make up your own opinion below. By the way, here you can see another participant in the Azeri NF singing Juliana Pasha's "It's all about you".

FiK stars nominated for 'Zhurma Show' Awards

On 20th October 2010 the 6th edition of the " Zhurma Show Awards" will be held in Prishtina. In this annual show, prizes are being awarded for the best music videos of Albanian stars. In the 20 categories many former participants of the Festivali i këngës are represented. One of the most nominated is Aurela Gaçe with the song "Origjinale" (Albavision Summerhit 2010). Also Blero, who sent in a song to FiK 2007 but later refused to take part for some reason, is highly nominated. Adrijan Gaxha, who represented Macedonia at the ESC in Belgradein 2008 is nominated once.
Below you see the categories and the nominees in which FiK particpants are represented:

Bold = FiK/ESC participant

(FiK '05) = Albanian NF in December '05 for Esc '06

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BEST ROCK

Alban Skenderaj (FiK '06, jury '07, host '09)- “Si më parë”
Argjentina - “Tip”
Troja - “Mbretnesha kohë”
The Grips Kthjellu - “Tonight is Your Night”
Vedat Ademi (FiK '08) - “Koha s’kthehet”

BEST POP FEMALE

Edona (FiK '05) - “Romanca”
Genta - “Shkune tune”
Kaltrina Selimi - Harrom”
Miriam Cani (FiK '05) - “Mos më ndal”
Mirsa Kërçeli - “Status quo”

BEST RnB MALE

Adrijan Gaxha (ESC '08 for Macedonia)- “E brenduar”
Aurora - “Dikur”
Blero (FiK '07) - “Nuk mundem pa ty”
Kastro Zizo - “Mullaga”
Stine - “Pse

BEST DANCE FEMALE

Aferdita Dreshaj – “Shumë Trafik”
Elvana Gjata (FiK '03) – “A Ke Ti Zemër” (AV Summerhit competition)
Vesa Luma (FiK '04/'07) – “Amanet”
Zaimina Vasjari – “Problem”
Zanfina Ismaili – “Vetëm Ti”

BEST DANCE MALE

Besart Halimi – “Ti nuk më ndjen”
Kastro Zizo & Blero feat Klevis – “Gjinkalla (remix)”
Mario Bischin ft Revolt Klan – “Id Love”
Mili ft. dj Zzap – “Ti Je Larg”
Nrg Band – “Atmosfera”

BEST POP-FOLK MALE

Alban Mehmeti – “Ti më Çmend”
Labi – “Mesazhi në Telefon”
Shpat Kasapi (FiK '04/'08) – “Mëkatare si Gjithmonë”

BEST FEMALE

Adelina Ismaili
Dafina Zeqiri
Elvana Gjata 

BEST MALE

Blero
Shpat Kasapi
Stine

BEST DUO - GROUP

2po2 ft. Tuna & Dafina Zeqiri – “Vibe”
Aurela Gaçe (FiK winner '99 & '01) feat Dr. Flori & Marsel – “Origjinale”
Dj. Jaz ft Hekuran Krasniqi & Legenda – “Çokollatë”
TDS ft. Nora – “Ka Je”
Tingulli Trent ft. Ermal Fejzullahu – “I Kom”

BEST SONG

Aurela Gaçe feat Dr. Flori & Marsel – “Origjinale” (AV Summerhit winner)
Labi – “Mesazhi në Telefon”
Mc Kresha – “Lej Flleshat”
Mimoza Shkodra – “Ndarja
Vesa Luma  – “Amanet”

BEST ALBUM

Blero – “Tara”
Edona Llalloshi – “Dilema”
Labi – “Padrejtësi në Dashuri”
Mc Kresha – “Patikat e Mija”
Sinan Vllasaliu – “Mendje e Madhe”

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BEST VIDEO

2po2 ft. Tuna & Dafina Zeqiri – “Vibe”
Adelina Berisha – “Party People”
Aurela Gaçe feat Dr. Flori & Marsel – “Origjinale”
Genta – “Shkune Tune”
The Grips Kthjellu – “Tonight Is Your Night”

 

 

We will report about the outcome.

Some random news

 

In these weeks there have been more news about Albanian National final stars, which would not have had enough content to fill a whole article alone, therefore they are summed up in this little sort of 'Newsflash'.

Helena Paparizou:

The Greek winner of the ESC 2005 is coming to the Qemal Stafa Stadium in Albania on Saturday. In Tirana she will hold a concert alongside other famous Musicians from Albania, Macedonia and Kosovo. The entrance costs a bit more than 3 €, which makes more than clear that sponsors pay this concert mostly. In this case mostly Greek companies in Albania.

Besa Kokëdhima:
Many news from the FiK contestant in for ESC '09. She is going to be part of the Helena Paparizou concert in Tirana on Saturday, singing 3 songs of her repertoire. One of the songs she will present though is going to be the most recently released "Nuk jam ajo" (I'm not her), a duet with Jehona Sopi (Video on the right).
We have managed to contact Besa Kokëdhima and ask her about a studio version of her '09 FiK song "Ajër", after two visitors asked us to do so. She replied that actually there does not exist a studio version of "Ajër" but that she finds it a good idea to produce one and will do so. A little achievement from our side (yay).

Aida Ndoci Dyrrah:

Aida, Albanian representative in 2007 and Ex-wife of Frederik Ndoci has also released a new solo song with video. The song is called "Ah, ah... Ti" and a has some certain orientalic touch. Enjoy the video on the left.

  

 

 

Olta Boka: 

And last but not least, as promised we finally found and upload a Studio Version of "Tak Tak ja bën tek porta" by Olta and his dad exclusevily for you here.

ENJOY! :D

Eurovision stars to take part in Kënga Magjike

The list of the 56 participants that will take part in Kënga Magjike 2010 was released today, and it contains many well known names for Eurovision fans. As previously reported on Albavision.tk, Juliana Pasha will take part in the competition again, and she will do that together with Luiz Ejlli. They also participated together in Festivali i Këngës in 2008, where they came second with the song "Një jetë". Juliana and Luiz represented Albania in ESC respectively in 2010 and 2006.

Another known Eurovision star who is taking part, is Olta Boka. The Albanian representative from 2008 also took part in the last edition of Kënga Magjike, where she finished ninth with the song "Jepu me zemër". We will also see Adrian Gaxha, who also took part in ESC in 2008, for FYR Macedonia.

Among the other former Festivali i Këngës participants, we find Pirro Çako, Linda Halimi, Era Rusi, Burn, Teuta Kurti, Greta Koçi, Vesa Luma and Voltan Prodani. You can take a look at the whole list HERE!

Kënga Magjike will be held at the dates 17th, 18th and 19th November

Besa wins prize in Ohrid festival.

Besa at Ohrid festival -Click for full view

In a previous article we informed about the participation of Besa Kokedhima in  the Ohrid festival in Macedonia. Now she wrote on her facebook fanpage about the outcome of the festival. She achieved winnning the prize "Best Performance" with the song "Versus" she competed with against 25 other particpants from the whole Balkan, one of them being Marko Kon, Serbian represantative 2009 in ESC, according to the Iliria News Agency.

Congrations to Besa. :)

Back from the summer break!

Hello, back in Germany, Albavision.tk enters a new phase, be prepared for more articles and features in the next weeks.

But for now, i shall show you a new Albanian cover version of "Dum Tek Tek", the Turkish Eurovision Songcontest song in 2009. The song was covered by famous Montenegrin-Albanian singer Nikolle Nikprelaj, who is known to sing traditional albanian folk music.
His style of singing might sound strangely to non-Albanians, but it's pretty popular on the home market.
Make your own idea of the Albanian version of "Dum tek tek"!



Exclusively on Albavision.tk for you: The lyrics and translation of the refrain

Albanian:
Së bashku t'a kalojmë sonte për gëzuar me përqafim
Une jam zemra jote e ti je shpirti im.
Së bashku të vallzojmë sonte me këtë rritëm dum tek tek
Më djeg kjo buza jote, sa herë që më puth e më prek.

English:

Together we'll spend this night for fun with embracement

I am your heart and you are my soul.

Together we'll dance tonight to this 'dum tek tek' rhythm

Your lips burn me, everytime you kiss and touch me.

Btw, that is Montenegrin Albanian :) which differs in some parts from original Albanian, f.e. that in Montenegro the Albanians use 'e' instead of 'dhe' for the word and.


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