Ven a bailar conmigo

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Ven a bailar conmigo
Guri Schanke and dancers performing "Ven a bailar conmigo" at the Norwegian national final
Eurovision Song Contest 2007 entry
Country	Norway
As	Guri Schanke
With	Christer Tornell and Stefan Clarin (back up dancers)
Language	English
Composer(s)	Thomas G:son
Lyricist(s)	Thomas G:son
Lyrics	English
Video Clip	"Ven a bailar conmigo" (NRK, Norwegian national final)

"Ven a bailar conmigo" is the name of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest entry from Norway, sung by Guri Schanke.

1 Melodi Grand Prix
2 Eurovision Song Contest
3 Performers
4 Charts and responses
5 Covers
6 Trivia
7 See also
8 External link

[edit] Melodi Grand Prix

Schanke performed the song in the Norwegian national final (February 10, 2007), in the English language, however the title of the song is in Spanish and means "Come Dance With Me". It scored shared 2nd place by the judges, but was a runaway winner by the televiewers, receiving almost 95 000 televotes.

[edit] Eurovision Song Contest

Guri Schanke, representing Norway with "Ven a bailar conmigo", will participate in the semi-final on May 10, 2007 in Helsinki, hoping to reach the top 10 for qualification into the final. She will perform in the 19th position following Macedonia's Karolina Gočeva with "Mojot Svet" and preceding Malta's Olivia Lewis with "Vertigo".

[edit] Performers

Guri Schanke - vocals
Christer Tornell - dancer
Stefan Clarin - dancer [1]

[edit] Charts and responses

Guri Schanke has not yet released a single, but the song entered as number 1 on the Norwegian radio program Norsktoppen (on radio since 1973), a weekly ranking of national pop songs based on a jury and the listener's suggestions.

A music critic in the Swedish tabloid newspaper Expressen, wrote about Guri Schanke that her performance "glows like a black hole", and that Norway's contribution to the Eurovision is among the worst contributions in this years upcoming contest. He gave his only top score of this year's contestants to the Swedish The Ark with "The Worrying Kind". [2]

[edit] Covers

In late February 2007, it became known that "Ven a bailar conmigo" was to be recorded by Swedish artist Anna Book, for her album Samba Sambero, which has been released on March 14, 2007.[3] Anna Book was one of the contestants in the Melodifestivalen 2007 with the song "Samba Sambero", also written by Thomas G:son. Guri Schanke said, in a webchat with the Norwegian newspaper VG before this was known, that the song was especially written for her, and that it was written on a request from NRK to Thomas G:son. Schanke's manager, Viggo Lund, said he was surprised to hear about the album release. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) has the rights for the songs that are part of Melodi Grand Prix, and the first right to use them.[4] The EBU and NRK started investigations on the case.[5] The Melodi Grand Prix project leader for NRK said in a statement to VG, that "We have to look at this positively, and hope the song gets popular in Sweden." [6]

[edit] Trivia

Guri Schanke won the semi final in Melodi Grand Prix 2007 on January 27, and "Ven a bailar conmigo" soon became a hit on Gay bars in Oslo.[7]. Her response was "Fantastic! I love it!".[8]
The song's composer Thomas G:son has co-written the music for Spain's contribution to the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, which is "I Love You Mi Vida" performed by the Spanish boyband D'NASH.
Hired by NRK, Kåre Johnny Enderud has designed Guri Schanke's costume for her Melodi Grand Prix performance. He is a former member of the Great Garlic Girls.