ESC birthdays 12 April – Boom boom, but no boomerang

Some countries have an almost exemplary record when it comes to getting out of a semi-final and into a Grand Final. So when a song from one of these dead certs doesn’t make it, you have to raise one or more of your eyebrows. That happened to one of those dead cert countries in sunny Düsseldorf in 2011. Malta and Armenia both finished one point behind 10th placed country Switzerland. Should today’s birthday girl Emma ‘Emmy’ Bejanyan have qualified? Or did she get what she deserved? Emmy is 32 today.

Tsnundd shnorhavor, Emmy!