It’s always good to see instruments on a stage, and even better of the singers are playing them. And it’s a bonus if they’re actually playing them, and not just miming playing them. Sadly, we now live in a world of pre-recorded backing tracks.
The piano might whet your appetite when it appears on a stage. Two, doubly so. In 2010, Romania sent today’s birthday girl Paul Seling along with her pal Ovi. They each had a piano, so fans on the instrument must have been ecstatic. As it happened, because the pianos did something very un-pianolike, they probably weren’t functioning instruments. It made little difference. The stage show was enough and our Romanian pair finished third in the Grand Final.
Paula is 42 today.
La mulți ani, Paula!