Just about a week behind reviews, and just a week away from the first semifinal in Vienna. Up next is my review of Monika Kuszynska (pictured) with "In the Name of Love" (Poland).
This is the most interesting story of Vienna 2015. The song is good, because this is a great, atmospheric, breathtaking ballad, and one of the best ballads of this year's ESC. However this is not what I'm talking about here: her life changing story is one that has caught my eye. In the 2000s, she was the lead singer of a pop rock band called Varius Manx, when suddenly she and other members of Varius Manx were seriously injured in a car crash. Kuszynska wasn't very fortunate, because she was paralyzed from the waist down. She has been in a wheelchair since then.
Her story was almost similar to the late Teddy Pendergrass (of "Love TKO" fame), who before his death a few years back, performed onstage in a wheelchair following an accident. This is quite a remarkable story as she in her first EUROVISION Song Contest ever. The song is still great (as aforementioned), and heaps better than the garbage last year, which shouldn't make the final anyway. She will no doubt make the grand final on Saturday. She will perform next Thursday in the second semifinal. Good luck.
Up next: Leonor Andrade "Ha Um Mar Que Nos Sepera"
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