Steven Sterling III
Steven Sterling has released his 3rd album
Steven Sterling 3. (Sterling Musiek STERCD002)
There's one new Eurocover of interest there and it's the opening track
Mama Afrika. This is a great Afrikaans version of
Mama Corsica, the French entry of 1993 by Patrick Fiori.
The album also includes a re-recording of
Lief Vir Alles Hier (Für Alle, Germany 1985), which Sterling recorded for his Debut CD.
Third song of Eurocovers interest is
Glimlag (Smile
), a coverversion of
Under Your Spell (Sweden 2006 pre-selection - Evan)
The album is for sale at
Kalahari*.
Lief Vir Alles Hier (In love with everything here) is technically an André Schwartz
♫ cover, who was the one who made the song hugely popular in South Africa.
Casanova Shaun Tait
Shaun Tait's second album
Ek Se Kom Ons Doen Dit (I say let's do this) is out now and features the first South African coverversion for Andorra. He recorded
Casanova (2008 - Gisela). The album also features two popular pre-selection songs.
Gee Jou Hart Vir My (Give your heart to me) is
Lay Your Love On Me (BWO, Melodifestivalen 2008) and
Viva La Musica was Man Meadow's song for the Polish 2008 selection.
Title track
Ek Se Kom Ons Doen Dit is a cover of Charlotte Perrelli's Bullet, her follow up single to Eurovision hit Hero (CD Out now on Sony SA)
(Kalahari)
On his debut CD Shaun Tait recorded
Sing 'n liedjie (Sing a song) as a duet with
Patricia Lewis, Queen Of South African Eurovision Covers. It's
Shame On You (Denmark 2004 - Thomas Thordarsson)
Let's Rage At The Club Kung FuCharl Smit's last CD
Lekker Jol (Great party, Ramkat RAMCD001) features two tracks of Estonian origin.
Kom Ons Raas (Let's rage) is a coverversion of Estonian entry
Let's Get Loud by Suntribe. Even better (imho) is the title track,
Lekker Jol. It's
Club Kung Fu, a pre-selection song from 2003 that was originally by Estonian superstars Vanilla Ninja. That song was the audience favorite, but their vote only counted for like 10% or so. The professional jury hated it, but Vanilla Ninja did quite well for themselves, especially in Germany. They were invited to represent Switserland in 2005 and with
Cool Vibes they ended 9th.
Charl Smit's version of the song is about traffic. Smit is currently working on his new CD which will have some more Eurocovers surprises.
The album is available at
Kalahari*. The track
Lekker Jol was also released on the VA compilation
Kuier In Afrikaans (Ramkat RAMCD004)
Another version of
Club Kung Fu was recorded by
Nicholis Louw:
Welkom By My Party can be found on his CD
Hier Naby Jou (Close to you).
I noticed a download site where you can preview the tracks
(Rhythm Online)*. They sell legal mp3's internationally and are currently working on an easy payment system (it's too complicated now for my liking)
http://www.nicholislouw.co.za/ 
Juanita ForeverJuanita Du Plessis celebrates her career with a double CD of her best hits and new tracks. Opening track of CD1 is
'n Ewigheid, (An eternity) a new coverversion of Carola's 2006 entry
Invincible (Sweden). It's already the 2nd Afrikaans version of this track, after the boys of Hi-5 recorded it on their CD
Versoeking.
Juanita's 1997 album Young Hearts included a coverversion of Gina G.'s Ooh Aah Just A Little Bit (U.K. 1996) in a hits medley
Moet My Nie Vergeet NieRian Ungerer's CD
Moet My Nie Vergeet Nie (Don't forget me) features the track
Agter Moes Laat (Had to leave behind), which is a coverversion of
Vukovi Umiru Sami (Croatia 2005 - Boris Novkovic)
Girl band
Shine 4 have split up, but they have released a best CD with some new tracks. One of these is
Je t'Adore (Belgium 2006, Kate Ryan) which is sung in Afrikaans.
Leandie Lombaard. I mentioned her CD
here. Now she has
her own website where you can listen to excerpts of the songs.
Some other recent releases are tenor
Jannie Moolmans CD
Ek Kom Huistoe (I'm coming home) which includes
Vandag (Today) (Le Grand Soir, Belgium 2005),
Jaycee Crauses CD
Ek Weet with
Steeds Verlief (Everything, Greece 2006) and
Waar Is Jy (Tornero, Romania 2006) and the previously mentioned albums by
Jennifer Zamudio and
Patricia Lewis.
Special Thanks to Roy and to Juan.
*Please note: I haven't tried any of the shops mentioned recently and I advise you contact them first about postage, payment and delivery information if you're interested in buying any of the CDs.
If you want to hear Mama Corsica in Lithuanian check this
Eurocovers post.
All South-Africa related posts at Eurocovers are
here. The Document is
here.
The Amsterdam Eurovision 2009 Concert.
If Moscow is too far, the crisis hit your bank balance or you were planning a long overdue trip to Amsterdam anyway this is the 2009 event for you:
On April 18, Marcanti Amsterdam will host a concert with many Eurovision Stars of the 2009 contest. Already a very impressive list of artists have confirmed: The entrants of Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Iceland, Lithuania, Cyprus, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Albania, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Slovenia, Poland, Moldova and Armenia will attend, more artsist to be confirmed. The show is hosted by Marga Bult and Maggie MacNeal.
TICKETS, Video promo. More Info 
Eurocovers has regularly featured CD info of South African artists recording your favorite Eurovision songs. Often in the Afrikaans language, or other exotic tongues like English.
Winde Van Verandering (Winds Of Change)
I need you (English) = I love you mi vida (Spain 2007 - d'Nash)
