Following Britain’s announcement that we’re putting aged singer Humperdinck, whose last top 20 hit was 40 years ago in 1972, Russia have annouced they’ll be putting forwards the Buranovo Grannies a.k.a. Buranovskiye Babushki.
If they win the contest they’ll be putting the money towards building church in their village.
Despite the bid for tran-european fame at the annual Eurovision Song Contest, one member told Vesti news “Grandmothers do not need glory and wealth.”
The song Party For Everyone – a mix of folk and modern dance music – won a national Russian TV competition voted for by the public, where it beat 24 other acts. Whether this was under the same inventive form of democracy recently used to re-elect Vladimir Putin remains to be seen.
Get your national flags ready and house parties organised – the Eurovision Song Contest takes place on 26 May.
