Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004
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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 |
 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 |
| 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. | ||||||
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