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It was an amzing show at Oslo. Millions of people followed the Eurovision Song Contest on TV and about 18,000 were at the Telenor Arena in Oslo and all of them had a big party at Saturday night.

a happy Lena

At 0:11h (CET) the dream came true – Lena from germany got the highest number of points from televoters and juries from the 39 participating countries in Europe. At the end Lena (19) managed to gather 246 points for Germany this year, followed by maNga from Turkey with 170 points.

There were many of critics who said before, that Lena has a very bad spoken english and because of that it would be hard for her to win at an international contest. The results say something different. It seems like Europe love her even with her “very own english-style”. Lena was the only artist without any big show on stage, no specialeffects no choreography at all, just natural Lena herself and her winningsong “Satellite”.
Some people are saying it was just back to basics, cause in the early years of the Eurovision Song Contest it was the same, just the artist and the song is important, nothing else.

Pretty much out of nowhere Lena sang herself into the German hearts during the national German final for the Eurovision Song Contest. Even though Lena made her way to music without any piano lessons or vocal training. But she got her chance, grabbed it and developed rapidly – from 0 to 100 in some weeks. Stefan Raab – who made the national casting-show “Our star for Oslo” – said “I saw her inside our public casting-box and she was ‘different’, had a very own style of singing and moving, so we decided to give her a chance and we did it right as it seems.” Directly after the German national final, her single Satellite went to the top of all national charts and stayed there for weeks. Lena even created a new German download record, because never before had a song sold so well in such a short time – so far Satellite is sold more than 700 000 times.

Congratulations Lena!

For Germany it was the 2nd win in total and the whole country was celebrating a big party. It was an amazing surprise for Germany to win this year’s Eurovision Song Contest after 28 years again, because the other years weren’t very glorious for Germany at all.

Interview after the show

And at least the song Satellite again:

Tags: ESC, Eurovision Song Contest, Lena, Lena Meyer-Landruth, Oslo, Satellite

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