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Elnur among favourites to win Eurovision

24 April 2015 15:05 (UTC+04:00)
Elnur among favourites to win Eurovision

By Amina Nazarli

With less a month left before the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 - to be held in Vienna, Austria this May, Azerbaijani contestant Elnur Huseynov has no time to waste as he continues his promo tour around Europe.

The talented singer visited the Greek capital, Athens on April 22, where he spent a very productive day. On the Antenna TV channel he met with the Greek representative, Maria-Elena Kyriakou and perform his mystical contemporary ballad "Hour Of The Wolf".

Elnur also gave an interview to “MAD TV” and “MAD TV Albania”.

Following the meetings, Elnur enjoyed the city, walking through Athens ancient streets.

He also did not miss a chance to buy some gifts for his favorite cat. Elnur is big animal lover and a relentless animal rights advocate. So when he gets a chance to find something interesting for his pets, he certainly uses it.

After the walk he gave an interview to “Hello! Magazine!” as well as “Virus” and “Oikotimes.com” portal.

After visiting Latvia, Hungary, Belgium, Netherlands and Greece, he is going to go to Russia and Georgia.

Austria will host the final of the 60th Eurovision on May 23. The semifinals of the international contest will be held on May 19 and 21. Elnur will perform his ballad under the 11th number in the second semifinal. The official slogan of the Jubilee 60th 2015 Eurovision Song Contest will be "Building Bridges".

Meanwhile, bookmakers from different countries have already announced the names of the contest’s favorites. A popular video portal YouTube has also named those contestants who have a chance to win.

Russian representative Polina Gagarina is leading among the first semi final participants in the number of views on YouTube, gaining more than three million views. Among the second semi final participants Elnur is expected to come on top - according to YouTube. His video clip scored more than one million views.

Let’s remind that in 2008, Elnur appeared on “the Eurovision Song Contest” in Belgrade, together with Samir Javadzada, who brought the 8th place to Azerbaijan.

Elnur has been working hard on his music career. Earlier in February this year the singer won the fourth season of one very popular TV show “O Ses Turkiye” (The Voice Turkey), setting up a record in the tele-voting history of the show by collecting over a million votes.

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Amina Nazarli is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @amina_nazarli

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