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Albania is known at the Eurovision Song Contest for its female vocalists
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How To Eurovision: Albania
08 January 2021 at 17:00 CET
Each participating country brings their own unique style to the competition. Follow us as we dive right into all the distinctive reasons we love to watch each country perform in the Contest in our new series How To Eurovision . This time it s all eyes on Albania!
Albania is relatively new to the Eurovision stage. Its debut entry was only in 2004 but since then they ve gifted us with great female vocalists and arguably some of the most memorable staging. The country creates a huge buzz each year with their national selection,
The difficult history of Festivali i Këngës
Almost sixty years ago, a new music festival began in the city of Tirana – Festivali i Këngës. This festival would continue for decades, through communism, dictatorship, prosecutions and censorship, before coming the music show known and loved around Europe today.
It’s through the shows long and difficult history that we can see how the contest grew and developed into the festival that now airs today.
Beginning in the December of 1962, the festival was centred around light music, and was won by Vaçe Zela and her song ‘Fëmija I parë’. The song was about a happy mother who was thrilled to have been blessed with a child in her life.