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OGAE (Organisation
Générale des Amateurs d'Eurovision) is the
World's largest fanclub for the Eurovision
Song Contest. The aim of OGAE is to bring
fans of the Eurovision Song Contest
together, exchange information and work
together with other organisations to promote
interest in the Eurovision Song Contest.
The OGAE International holds three annual
contests: the OGAE Song Contest, Second
Chance Contest and also the OGAE Video
Contest. Club members have the opportunity
to vote for the national preselections and
also for the international contests. Rules
state that songs taking part in these
contests should not be the ones which made
it to the Eurovision Song Contest. The main
idea is for 'fun' and to share new local
music with the fans from the other 30
countries, where OGAE is represented.. |
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OGAE SONG
CONTEST |
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The
OGAE Song
Contest
is an audio event in which all
OGAE
national clubs can enter with an
original song released in the previous
12 months in their countries and sang in
one of the country's official language.
The
annual OGAE
Song Contest
started in 1986 with 5 entries. Malta
joined the competition in the year 2000.
All OGAE-clubs
are asked to send in a song for this
Eurovision-like
contest.
The rules state that the song must be
original, not older than a year and must
be sung in a country's national
language. Entries from national finals
are not accepted.
Click HERE for the official website
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Chiara
obtained Malta's best result at the
OGAE Song
Contest
2006 |
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OGAE Malta's
participation at the
OGAE Song
Contest:
2000: Chiara | What you want
is what you get
20th place out of 26 entries with 23
points
Organised by
OGAE France, winners of previous
edition
2001:
Fabrizio
Faniello | Show me now
17th place out of 23 entries with 21
points
Organised by
OGAE Sweden, winners of previous
edition
2002: Gillian Attard | Xi darba
min jaf
22nd place out of 25 entries with 10
points
Organised by
OGAE France, winners of previous
edition
2003: Natasha & Charlene | Xita
fid-Dezert
21st place out of 27 entries with 22
points
Organised by
OGAE UK, winners of previous edition
2004: Natasha & Charlene | Xrara
Nar
24th place out of 27 entries with 8
points
Organised by
OGAE France, winners of previous
edition
2005: Ira Losco | Love me or hate
me
19th place out of 28 entries with 31
points
Organised by
OGAE Russia, winners of previous
edition
2006: Chiara | Here I Am
8th place out of 28 entries with
75 points [BEST RESULT]
Organised by
OGAE Italy, winners of previous
edition
2007:
Chasing Pandora | Feel the Rain
25th place out of 29
entries with 10 points
Produced by OGAE
Greece, winners of previous edition
Click here for the official
website. |
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SECOND CHANCE
CONTEST |
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The annual
Second Chance
Contest is
open for all entries taking part in the
national finals and which didn't make it
to the Eurovision Song
Contest.
Club members vote for their favourite
entries and the winning entry represents
the clubs in this annual competition.
The OGAE
Second Chance
Contest is a
video
event in which the
OGAE
national clubs can enter if there was a
televised national selection for the
Eurovision Song
Contest
that year. The members of each club
choose amongst the songs that did not
win, the ones that will represent each
club in the event.
The first edition of the Second
Chance
Contest was held in 1987. Malta
entered this
contest for the first time in
1993.
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Charlene & Natasha
obtained Malta's best result at the
OGAE Second
Chance 2006 |
OGAE Malta's
participation at the Second Chance
Contest:
1993: Renato | Seems like
yesterday
20th place out of 22 entries with 30
points
Held in Oslo, Norway
1994: Ray Caruana | Scarlet Song
4th place out of 16 entries with
124 points
Held in Oslo, Norway
1996: Marita | Lasting Visions
14th place out of 22 entries with 40
points
Held in Farsta, Sweden
1997: Catherine Vigar | The Call
13th place out of 17 entries with 28
points
Held in Hannover, Germany
1998:
Fabrizio
Faniello | More than just a game
14th place out of 18 entries with 35
points
Held in Hamburg, Germany
2000: Priscilla | Our Love
17th place out of 21 entries with
15 points
Held in Istanbul, Turkey
2001: Ira Losco - Spellbound
13th place out of 20 entries with 53
points
Held in Helsinki, Finland
2002: Karen Polidano - When comes
my lover
16th place out of 22 entries with 20
points
Held in Stockholm, Sweden
2004: Andreana | 24/7
21st place out of 21 entries with 1
point
Held in Vaxjo, Sweden
2005: Olivia Lewis | Deja vu
21st place out of 23 entries with 11
points
Held in Bilbao, Spain
2006: Charlene & Natasha | Echoes
of Gaia
4th place out of 19 entries with
146 points [BEST RESULT]
Held in Stockholm, Sweden
2007: Klinsmann Coleiro
| She gives me wings
15th place out of 20 entries with 22
points
Held in Ljubljana, Slovenia
2008:
Claudia Faniello
| Caravaggio
Organised by OGAE
Sweden, winners of previous edition
Click here to watch all previous
winners of the
OGAE 2nd Chance
Contest on
You Tube.
Malta
withdrew from the 1999 and the 2003
competitions due to communication
problems with host organisers. The
Right Time by Lawrence Gray (1999)
and Rain of Fire by Natasha &
Charlene (2003) were the entries
originally submitted for the
competition. |
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OGAE
VIDEO
CONTEST |
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At the
OGAE
Club Meeting in Riga in May 2003,
OGAE
Turkey invited all
OGAE clubs
to participate in a brand new
contest: the
OGAE
Video
Contest
2003, with the first
Contest
to be held in Istanbul.
The OGAE
Video
Contest is,
among other kind of
contest,
an alternative option to the Eurovision
Song Contest
created by the
OGAE
of many countries to make the
euro-spirit last longer and diversify
even more.
The idea
is to have a high quality visual
contest
with songs from around Europe.
Interesting videos are produced in many
countries and the purpose of this
contest
is to entertain with clips coming from
different European nations.
Much like the
OGAE
Song Contest,
all OGAE
national clubs can enter with an
original song and
video
released in the previous 12 months in
their countries. There is no obligation
on the entry for the
OGAE
Video
Contest to
be sang in one of the country's official
language.
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OGAE Malta
Members with Ira Losco
Video
Contest
2005
picture © ogaemalta.com
Fabrizio
Faniello
obtained Malta's best result at the
OGAE
Video
Contest 2006 |
OGAE
Malta's participation at the
OGAE
Video
Contest:
2003: Miriam Christine | Hold On
Click here to watch videoclip
17th place out of 19 entries with 10
points
Produced by
OGAE Turkey, originators of the
idea
2004: Laura | Bye Bye Baby
Click here to watch videoclip (hi)
or
Click here to watch (lo)
20th place out of 20 entries with 3
points
Produced by
OGAE France, winners of previous
edition
2005: Ira Losco | I'm In Love
Again
Click here to watch videoclip.
6th place out of 19
entries with 74 points
Produced by
OGAE Portugal, winners of
previous edition
2006:
Fabrizio
Faniello | Love On The Radio
Click here to watch videoclip.
6th place out of 15
entries with 79 points [BEST
RESULT]
Produced by
OGAE Turkey as
OGAE
Ukraine, winners of previous edition
were unable to produce the show.
2007: Winter Moods | Marigold
Click here to watch videoclip.
22nd place out of 22
entries with 1 point.
Produced by OGAE
Italy, winners of previous edition
Click here for the official
website. |
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Disclaimer: Voting for the
OGAE
club contests is open for club members
only. All those who are interested to
join OGAE
Malta, please do not hesitate to
contact us or
visit this page
for more information. |
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