Wikipedia:WikiProject Eurovision/News/Daily-News/Issue 2

Eurovision Daily News Update 16 August 2023 Happy birthday to... Marc Moulin who would be 81 today. He represented Belgium 1980 as part of Telex, placing (17th) Happy birthday to... Jari Sillanpää who is 58 today. He represented Finland 2004 placing (14th in the Semi Final) Recently in the news... Patricia Bredin, the first representative to Eurovision from the United Kingdom, has died aged 88. Recently in the news... EasyJet is launching a new route from the United Kingdom to the Icelandic city of Akureyri, near Húsavík. Did you know... The largest number of nations to take part was 43 in 2008, 2011 and 2018. Eurovision entrant... Dave Benton (born 31 January 1951, birth name Efrén Eugene Benita) is a pop musician from Aruba who lives in Estonia. He is one of the winners of the Eurovision Song Contest 2001. At the age of 50 years and 101 days at the time of his victory, Benton is the oldest singer ever to win Eurovision, as well as the first Black winner. Born Efrén Eugene Benita in 1951 on the Caribbean island of Aruba, he was fluent in English, Dutch, Spanish and Papiamento, the creole language of the island. As a drummer and a backing vocalist, he worked with The Drifters, Tom Jones, Billy Ocean, José Feliciano and The Platters. Benton's daughter Sissi participated in Eesti Laul in 2021 with the song "Time", attempting to follow in her father's footsteps and represent Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021. She qualified to the superfinal, where she placed second.