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Jul
“A Little Bit Eurovision” – Part 3
Linda Martin performing "Why Me"
RTE broadcast part three of “A Little Bit Eurovision” tomorrow night, this time profiling Linda Martin, winner of the 1992 contest. Linda’s Eurovision win was the fourth for Ireland and the first of our record three-in-a-row successes. Having entered the Irish National Song Contest an incredible nine times, (four as a soloist, four with the band Chips and once with Linda Martin & Friends), Linda has been the most frequent entrant in the Irish National Final.
Linda of course also represented Ireland in 1984 with “Terminal Three” placing 2nd; just 8 points behind Herreys. She is one of only four Eurovision participants to place 1st and 2nd in the contest. She has released 8 singles as a solo artist in Ireland and 16 singles with Chips, including such “gems” as ”I’m A Song, Sing Me”, “Hi-Lowie” and “Sock It To Em, Sister Nell”.
Linda Martin remains a Eurovision fan favourite and performed at Congratulations, the 50th Anniversary contest in 2005. She has been a judge on “You’re A Star” and Eurosong 2009, presenter of RTE’s “The Lyrics Board” and of course has toured Ireland with “Menopause the Musical” where she famously fell out with Twink but the less said about that the better.
“A Little Bit Eurovision” is broadacst this Tuesday at 8:30pm on RTE1.
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