Watch: Cezar Sings “Cinema Paradiso” Live at Radio Station
Everyone remembers Romania’s entry at Eurovision this year – especially those of you who are still listening to “It’s My Life”. If you found the giant, sparkly dress, fiery background,…
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“It’s My Life” Is the Eurovision Song You’re Still Listening To
One month ago we asked y’all to check your iPods and tell us which Eurovision 2013 songs you’re still listening to. After counting 8,319 votes, we can now reveal that…
Cezar Wins Verka Serduchka Award for Most Daring Act
A wise hip-hop artist once said that “Haters gonna hate”. He must have been a Eurovision fan. Aliona Moona wears an iridescent dress that looks somewhat triangular to her first rehearsal.…
Cezar Wins Sabina Babayeva Award for Best Dressed
Setting trends is a risky business. Sometimes being fashion forward means being misunderstood. Sometimes being an artist means being viewed as a misfit. Such is the case with Romania’s Cezar Ouatu.…
Cezar Releases New Single “Painful Love”
After representing Romania in Malmö with the polarizing song “It’s My Life” and finishing 13th on the Grand Final scoreboard, Cezar “The Voice” Ouatu had a short week of rehearsals…
Romania: “It’s My Life” Is NOT Plagiarism
In recent days fans of Analog by Nature—a Minnesota-based music group—have suggested that Cezar Ouatu stole the dubstep elements of the group’s track “C’mon” for his Eurovision entry “It’s My…
Italy: RAI Reveals Televoting Numbers, Questionable Jury (Update)
RAI, the Italian national broadcaster, has revealed the full results of the public televote. They paint a very different picture to the results announced by the presenter Federica Gentile during the…
EXCLUSIVE: Backstage with Romania’s Cezar Ouatu
Cezar Ouatu is a man on a mission. One of the world’s fiercest countertenors, he’s keen to prove that Eurovision fans can embrace opera, and that opera can make pop…
Interview: Cezar Aims High with His Voice
Romania’s 2013 entrant, internationally acclaimed countertenor but lesser known pop-opera singer Cezar “The Voice” Ouatu, is a very intense and artistic individual. Like most opera stars, he is somewhat disconnected…
Poll Results: Azerbaijan Will Win Second Semi-Final
Wiwi’s readers have cast a total of 9,254 votes in our poll to determine the winner of the second semi-final. If they have it right then Azerbaijan’s Farid Mammadov will…
Romania: Cezar Goes to the Circus at First Rehearsal
Wiwi: Someone needs to call the circus because the bearded lady has escaped. Oh wait, that’s just Cezar Ouatu singing falsetto. This polarising number was always going to be difficult to stage and…
Wiwi Jury: Romania’s Cezar Ouatu with “It’s My Life”
Earlier this week the Wiwi Jury—our international panel of music un-professionals—hopped in a caravan and headed to Romania to review Cezar’s Eurovision 2013 song “It’s My Life”. Did his operatic…
Romania: Cezar Ouatu Will Bring Ego to Eurovision
No — not ego as in “big head”. EGO as in the the Romanian fashion brand! That’s just one of the tidbits the Romanian opera star shared recently with Deban…
WATCH: Cezar Realeases Adrenaline-Filled Video for “It’s My Life”
“It’s my life, and I know it’s not forever”, goes the song, and Cezar, our Eurovision Next Top Male Model frontrunner, seems to live by that in his just-released video.…
Romania: Cezar Ouatu Interview at Eurovision in Concert
Last week at Eurovision in Concert Wiwibloggs caught up with Romanian opera star Cezar Ouatu. The “It’s My Life” singer explained the difference between opera fans and Eurovision fans and…
Semi-Final Polls: Update #1 (25 March)
We launched our poll for the second semi-final on March 24. In just 24 hours we’ve already received a total of 2,420 votes. Since y’all are voting up a storm,…
Romania: Cezar “The Voice” Goes to Malmo!
Countertenor Cezar Ouatu has won Romanian hearts—and Romania’s Selectia Nationala—with his revamped performance of “It’s My Life”.