Craig

I enjoy all things Eurovision and have participated in the majority of OSC Contents, but not all. My favourite music is time locked in the 1980's, although I am a huge Kylie fan, and now have a deep appreciation for Delta Goodrem (Kylie's heir apparent).

René

My birthdate falls on the 24th of April 1979 and if you ask me about my hobbies, I don't know where to start. In general I'm interested in many kind of sport activities: especially tennis is a wonderful sport. But I also like to surf the net, meet friends and of course listen to good music with - very important - expressive lyrics!

I'm one of the few players, who has participated in every OSC so far and since OSC 7 I'm also part of the OSC-Team. So if you don't like our OSC-homepage, you know whom you have to criticize :-) In "real life" I'm studying communication science in Salzburg and it's my goal to organize TV-shows in the (near) future.

Nikos & Panayiotis

My name is Panayiotis and i come from Greece, Larissa. I was born on February 10 1979...Love anything that has to do with music and even more Eurovision....OSC is a very good chance for me to "believe" that i am in Eurovision (poor boy)!!! I have studied Theatre and Drama in Thesaloniki,Greece! Good luck to everybody!!!!!

Stefan

Nir (left) & Tal (right)

Deo

Deo Grech is Maltese. Lives in the small village of Kalkara. Born on 16th October 1974, libra.

Graduated from university of malta in b.ed. (hons) as teacher in 97. Completed an intensive 3 year course in theatre and drama in 2000 and evenetually started teaching drama and doing theatre. He is the director of the theatre group "Cocoon" and co-founder of "Artistic Performing Arts" Centre.

Is also very involved in the Eurovision Song Contest, being club president of O.G.A.E. Malta - the Maltese Eurovision Fan Club since 2000. Is also the producer and presenter of the weekly radio show "Eurovision Radio" on Malta's leading radio station - super ONE radio.

Writes lyrics for various popular singers on the island and has won several awards namely: Malta International Song Contest; Super ONE Song Festival; People's Ode Song Contest; Unity's Melody Song Contest; Fresh Youth Song Contest and also various other awards from International Song Festivals. Has taken part three times, to-date, at the Malta Song for Europe - in 2003 with "Rain of Fire"; in 2004 with "A Simple Wish" and "24/7" and in 2005 with "Love is the reason". All songs with Natasha & Charlene, except for "24/7" which was with Andreana.

Together with Colin Acton (UK) founded the Online Song Contest with the idea of bringing together as many people as possible sharing music from their countries and thus creating a song contest which is held periodically on internet. The idea has proven to be a successful one.

Pawel

Participating in OSC since the begining, but I had a break. I live (again after a little break) in Warsaw. I'm interesting in Eurovision Song Contest since 1981, but also I fall in love with Kate Bush the years ago, I love the music (including classical, jazz and folk), movie, theatre and good literature. However I work as an accoutant (he he I remember the jokes of Monty Python about an accoutant, maybe I'm so boring...:).

I am a member of OGAE Poland and last year I won the second karaoke conest during our OGAE convent with Prisluhni me (I like this song a lot, but my number one are Sweden 98 and France 91).

Pedro

My name is Pedro, and I represent Portugal since OSC 1. My biggest interests are Eurovision, music, languages, food, drinking, internet and politics.

My favourite ESC song ever is Luxembourg 1965, well, only Germany 1996 would have beaten it...my favourite band are the Pet Shop Boys, my favourite song ever hummm...probably Alan Parsons Project's "Don't Answer Me"...my favourite Portuguese songs ever...two of the songs I selected for OSC 4 pre-selection...Pedro Abrunhosa & Bandemónio's "Viagens" and Xutos & Pontapés' "1º de Agosto".

Glad to be with you here :D

David

My name is David Laich, I was born in Bilbao, Basque Country, in the north of spain, on 26th december 1983. since I was a child I became a fan of the Eurovision Song contest, as far as I can remember my first one was in 1990 when I was only 6 years old.

I've taken part for spain in OSC for the last editions, doing solo as the other members are now busy and cannot take part, at least from now. I also took part 1 or 2 editions as part of the team, but had a break for some editions.

Appart from ESC, my other hobbies are Fencing and languages.

Orhan (left) & Senol (right)