{"id":22046,"date":"2014-03-28T17:18:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T15:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=22046"},"modified":"2014-03-28T17:18:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T15:18:33","slug":"bringing-eurovision-and-aegee-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2014\/03\/28\/bringing-eurovision-and-aegee-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Eurovision and AEGEE Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2014\/03\/28\/bringing-eurovision-and-aegee-together\/latvia_aarzemnieki_main_publicity_picture\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22047\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22047\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/latvia_aarzemnieki_main_publicity_picture-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/latvia_aarzemnieki_main_publicity_picture-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/latvia_aarzemnieki_main_publicity_picture.jpg 530w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a>AEGEE and Eurovision have quite a lot in common, the main thing being a vision about united Europe. This year the connection is stronger than ever as in May during the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurovision.tv\/page\/timeline\">Eurovision Song Contest<\/a> in Copenhagen one of the participants will be well known for some AEGEEans!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2014 Latvia is represented by a special participant &#8211; J\u00f6ran Steinhauer and his group \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aarzemnieki?ref=ts&amp;fref=ts\">Aarzemnieki<\/a>\u201d (in Latvian \u2013 \u201cForeigners\u201d). Firstly, he is not a professional musician, just somebody who has a passion, voice and good composition ideas. Secondly, he is not Latvian, but a German who fell in love with the country. And thirdly, since 2007 he has participated in several AEGEE events and even wrote a hymn for the \u201cEuropean Day of Languages\u201d organised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aegee-riga.lv\/\">AEGEE-Riga<\/a> (with this song \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oUaGw_p9jxY\">More than 27<\/a>\u201d he already participated once in the Latvian semi-final for Eurovision).<\/p>\n<p>This year he has taken everybody by surprise and together with 3 other singers \u2013 Latvians \u2013 participated in Latvian contest for Eurovision with a catchy song \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurovision.tv\/page\/multimedia\/videos?id=99153\">Cake to bake<\/a>\u201d. Believe it or not, they won and will present Latvia in the Eurovision! For sure several AEGEE members will be there to support him, but what about you?<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NITRaxJcynA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>Written by Anita Kalmane, Foundation AEGEE Trust Fund (FATF)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">AEGEE and Eurovision have quite a lot in common, the main thing being a vision about united Europe. This year the connection is stronger than ever as in May during the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen one of the participants will be well known for some AEGEEans! In 2014 Latvia is represented by a special participant &#8211; J\u00f6ran Steinhauer and&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2014\/03\/28\/bringing-eurovision-and-aegee-together\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":22051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[8],"tags":[382,1281,1041],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22046"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22104,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22046\/revisions\/22104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}