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Ruslana, Mans and Velvet
Poland: Eurostars in Sopot festival
The Sopot Festival started back in 1961 and has attracted many international stars throughout the years. Among the winners and particpants these past decades were many names Eurofans will recognise, such as Henri Dès in 1969, Alla Pugacheva in 1978, The Herreys in 1985, Kasia Kowalska in 1995, Vanilla Ninja, Andreas Johnson, Brainstorm and Monrose among others. Among the international stars that have performed at Sopot are resounding names such as Demis Roussos, Ricky Martin, Elton John, Gloria Gaynor, The Corrs, Goran Bragovic, Whitney Huston and Bryan Adams to name a few only.
This year, Sopot festival is organised by private channel TVN and Radio Zet on 24th August and the following artists will be particpating in the finals:
Danny - Tokyo
Oh Laura - Release me
Matt Pokora - Catch me if you can
Ruslana feat. T-Pain - Moon of dreams
Velvet - Chemistry
Mans Zelmerlöw - Brother oh Brother
They will be joined by one Polish artist who will be chosen through a local preselection which includes Eurovision artists like Blue Café (ESC 2004) or singers known from the Polish national selection 2004 like Marcin Rozynek or Anna Wyszkoni.
Special thanks to Jarosław Hęciek for his contribution to the article.
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'Tokyo' may be old but Danny's album has been released in February 2008 here so it's not that old. Unlike other European countries, we don't get much of Swedish music here.
In the '70 and early the '80, Spanish TVE used to broadcast this festival every year. I was very young (still I am !) but I remember that this festival was popular here because some Spanish singer were succesful at that time.
This sounds great but the songs are old...
boring festival
i don't like this festival 
ooo jarek posted the news 
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Songs like Tokyo, Chemistry and another are new in Poland
Ooooooh sounds great wow 
Jaro dude good job buddy eheheheeh 
danny rules and his son If only you with Therese was one of the best hits last year.....by the way tokyo is like 2 year old song...so is oh lauras release me....
4 Swedish acts, one Eurovision winner and one french song I did even not hear : "promising"...!
No, seriously, I cross my fingers for Oh Laura!
One former ESC star they mention in the article is Marion Rung for Finland (ESC in 1962 and 1973), who won the Sopot festival in 1980 (it was called Intervision Song festival at the time).
Sopot song contest is also well known in Bulgaria!We have a winner i think Margarita Hramova ! And it is famouse also because in Bulgaria we have Sopot too
same with oh laura, mans and velvet - only matt pokora and ruslana's songs are like relatively new
wasn't 'tokyo' released like hundred years ago?
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