Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004

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Sanda Ladoşi represented Romania in 2004 and came 18th place with 18 pts

In 2004 Romania was represented by Sanda Ladoşi.

[edit] About Sanda Ladoşi

Sanda Ladoşi (born 2 January 1970) is a Romanian singer.

As a child, Sanda sang in various choirs and groups, but began studying music when she was around 10-years-old learning Piano, classical Guitar and singing.

But having been born into a family of teachers, it seemed natural Sanda would also go into education. However, Sanda gave up her teaching career almost as soon as she graduated from the Târgu Mureş Teaching High School after winning Romania's Mamaia Pop Festival. Moving to Bucharest to follow her dream of becoming a professional singer, she also studied Law at the city's Titu Maiorescu University.

Sanda has worked with several well-known composers in Romania such as Eugen Mihăescu, Marcel Dragomir, Ionel Tudor, Cornel Meraru, Mihai Constantinescu, Alexandru Simu, Raimond Vancu, George Popa and Dan Iagnov. Iagnov has composed more than 50 songs for Sanda during her career.

Sanda has never let her fans down. Whether singing alone or duetting with Romanian stars like Marcel Pavel, Ştefan Iordache, Ioan Gyuri Pascu or Aurelian Temişan, Sanda always enchants her audience with her voice. She has performed at numerous concerts across Romania and at numerous summer festivals abroad.

Sanda has released five albums and has toured worldwide. She released her fifth album Khalini in 2006.

From the second grade till the end of the high school, Sanda played basketball and during high school she represented her school in the swimming national competitions. Now she practices tae-bo to keep herself in shape.

[edit] 2004 semifinal

Country	Artist	Song (Translation)	Composer	Lyrics	Place	Points
Albania	Anjeza Shahini	The Image Of You	Edmond Zhulali	Agim Doçit	4	167
Andorra	Marta Roure	Jugarem a estimar-nos (We'll Be Playing at Loving Each Other)	Jofre Bardagí	Jofre Bardagí	18	12
Belarus	Aleksandra & Konstantin	My Gallileo	Aleksandra & Konstantin	Alexey Solomakha	19	10
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Deen	In the Disco	Vesna Pisarović	Vesna Pisarović	7	133
Croatia	Ivan Mikulić	You Are The Only One	Ivan Mikulić & Vedran Ostojić	Duško Gruborović	9	72
Cyprus	Lisa Andreas	Stronger Every Minute	Mike Connaris	Mike Connaris	5	149
Denmark	Tomas Thordarson	Shame On You	Ivar Lind Greiner	Iben Plesner	13	56
Estonia	Neiokõsõ	Tii (The Way)	Priit Pajusaar & Glen Pilvre	Aapo Ilves	12	57
Finland	Jari Sillanpää	Takes 2 to Tango	Mika Toivanen	Jari Sillanpää	14	51
FYR Macedonia	Toše Proeski	Life	Jovan Jovanov	Ilija Nikolovski	10	71
Greece	Sakis Rouvas	Shake it	Nikos Terzis	Nektarios Tirakis	3	238
Israel	David D'or	To Believe	David D'or & Ofer Maor	David D'or	11	57
Latvia	Fomins & Kleins	Dziesma par laimi (Song About Happiness)	Tomass Kleins	Guntars Račs	17	23
Lithuania	Linas & Simona	What's Happened to Your Love?	Michalis Antonious & Linas Adomaitis	Camden-MS	16	26
Malta	Julie & Ludwig	On Again... Off Again	Philip Vella	Gerard James Borg	8	74
Monaco	Märyon	Notre planète (Our Planet)	Philippe Bosco	Patrick Sassier	20	10
Netherlands	Re-union	Without You	Ed van Otterdijk	Angeline van Otterdijk	6	146
Portugal	Sofia Vitória	Foi Magia (It Was Magic)	Paulo Neves	Paulo Neves	15	38
Serbia and Montenegro	Željko Joksimović	Lane Moje (My Sweetheart)	Željko Joksimović	Leontina Vukomanović	1	263
Slovenia	Platin	Stay Forever	Simon Gomilšek	Diana Lečnik	21	5
Switzerland	Piero & The Musicstars	Celebrate	Greg Manning	Greg Manning	22	0
Ukraine	Ruslana	Wild Dances	Ruslana	Ruslana & Oleksandr Ksenofontov	2	256
Venue: Abdi İpekçi Stadium - Istanbul, Turkey

NB - The exact scores of the nations that qualified were not published until after the final, to avoid bias.

[edit] 2004 final

Country	Artist	Song (Translation)	Composer	Lyrics	Place	Points
Albania	Anjeza Shahini	The Image Of You	Edmond Zhulali	Agim Doçit	7	106
Austria	Tie Break	Du bist (You Are)	Peter Zimmermann	Peter Zimmermann	21	9
Belgium	Xandee	1 Life	Marc Paelinck	Dirk Paelinck	22	7
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Deen	In the Disco	Vesna Pisarović	Vesna Pisarović	9	91
Croatia	Ivan Mikulić	You Are The Only One	Ivan Mikulić & Vedran Ostojić	Duško Gruborović	12	50
Cyprus	Lisa Andreas	Stronger Every Minute	Mike Connaris	Mike Connaris	5	170
France	Jonatan Cerrada	A Chaque Pas (With Every Step)	Ben 'Jammin' Robbins & Steve Balsamo	Jonatan Cerrada	15	40
FYR Macedonia	Toše Proeski	Life	Jovan Jovanov	Ilija Nikolovski	14	47
Germany	Max	Can't Wait Until Tonight	Stefan Raab	Stefan Raab	8	93
Greece	Sakis Rouvas	Shake it	Nikos Terzis	Nektarios Tirakis	3	252
Iceland	Jónsi	Heaven	Sveinn Rúnar Sigurðsson	Magnús Thor Sigmundsson	19	16
Ireland	Chris Doran	If My World Stops Turning	Bryan McFadden	Jonathan Shorten	22	7
Malta	Julie & Ludwig	On Again... Off Again	Philip Vella	Gerard James Borg	12	50
Netherlands	Re-union	Without You	Ed van Otterdijk	Angeline van Otterdijk	20	11
Norway	Knut Anders Sørum	High	Thomas Thörnholm & Lars Andersson	Dan Attlerud	24	3
Poland	Blue Café	Love Song	Paweł Rurak-Sokal	Tatiana Okupnik	17	27
Romania	Sanda	I Admit	George Popa	Irina Gligor	18	18
Russia	Julia Savicheva	Believe Me	Maxim Fadeev	Brenda Loring	11	67
Serbia and Montenegro	Željko Joksimović	Lane Moje (My Sweetheart)	Željko Joksimović	Leontina Vukomanović	2	263
Spain	Ramón	Para llenarme de ti (To Be Filled By You)	Kike Santander	Kike Santander	10	87
Sweden	Lena Philipsson	It Hurts	Thomas 'Orup' Eriksson	Thomas 'Orup' Eriksson	6	170
Turkey	Athena	For Real	Gökhan Özoğuz & Hakan Özoğuz	Gökhan Özoğuz & Hakan Özoğuz	4	195
Ukraine	Ruslana	Wild Dances	Ruslana	Ruslana & Oleksandr Ksenofontov	1	280
United Kingdom	James Fox	Hold on to our Love	Gary Miller	Tim Woodcock	16	29
Venue: Abdi İpekçi - Istanbul, Turkey
The table is ordered by the countries' names.

Individual Entries in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004

Albania - Andorra - Austria - Belarus - Belgium - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Croatia - Cyprus - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Iceland - Ireland - Israel - Latvia - Lithuania - Republic of Macedonia - Malta - Monaco - Netherlands - Norway - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Russia - Serbia and Montenegro - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - Switzerland - Turkey - Ukraine - United Kingdom

Note: Countries in italics are semi-finalists who did not advance to the final.