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The first press-conference of Eurovision - 2009 was given by the Montenegro delegation. Despite early morning, the room was full of journalists from different countries – from Russia to Australia – in a lively and warm atmosphere.
The lead artist sang a piece of the one of the most famous Russian songs: “Podmoskovnye vechera” (Moscow nights) listen.

Andrea Demirovic said, “I am happy to be here and I will be the happiest girl in the world if we reach the final”.

The composer Ralph Siegel, who has entered the Eurovision 19 times and whose song won the Eurovision over 20 years ago, mentioned that he was very happy to come to Eurovision once again and this time with such a beautiful singer listen.

Andrea's dancer Nikola Tomashevich explained his dance was based on a 1970s US musical movie listen.

At the end of the press-conference, Andrea sang a capella a piece of her composition 'Just Get Out of My Life'.

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• Vote for Montenegro in the Australian Radio Televote.


• Watch Montenegro, 1st song in the First Semi-Final on SBS Australia

The Montenegro delegation was represented by: Andrea Demirovic (lead artist); Ivan Maksimovic (HOP); Ralph Siegel (composer); backing artists Katrin Schild von Spannenberg, Peter Bischof, Ariana Roth; Nikola Tomashevich (dancer).

Montenegro counts on the block vote, Slovenia on national pride

In his first press conference at the Eurovision, Montenegran artist Stefan Filipović justified his decision not to sing in English listen, explaining that he expected greater support from neighbouring countries (of ex-Yugoslavia) by singing in their native language.




This same subject was later addressed by the Slovenian artist Rebeka Dremelj who explained her same decision in very different terms listen. She went on to compare her experiences as a former Miss World contestant with the Eurovision listen.