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Hailing from Reykjavik, Iceland, Pollapönk (“Kiddie Punk”) certainly are a punk-influenced collective creating music for both kids and their parents. The group met up when Heiðar ?-rn Kristjánsson and Haraldur Freyr Gíslason, both from the music group Botnleðja, were schooling to be instructors, launching their self-titled debut in 2006 being …

Affectionately dubbed “the bearded lady” Conchita Wurst rose to worldwide fame simply because Austria’s relatively controversial entry in to the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest. The alter-ego of Austrian Tom Neuwirth, Wurst acquired originally become more active after Neuwirth’s short-lived guy music group Jetzt Anders! disbanded after only a calendar year, …

Norwegian singer/songwriter Carl Espen Thorbjørnsen — simply referred to as Carl Espen — represented his country on the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen. Located in the Traditional western Norwegian city Bergen, Espen inserted the nationwide competition Melodi Grand Prix in 2014 to execute on the Copenhagen competition, and advanced …