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"Pe-o margine de lume" Best composition 2008
Romania: Pe o margine de lume wins Best Song Award
Andrei Tudor is one of the best composers in Romania. He comes from a family of musicians. His father is also a composer and he participated in the Eurovision 2002 with the song "tell me why" performed by Monica Anghel and Marcel Pavel.
Andrei is only 24 years old and his compositions were performed by many famous artists in Romania. While in Belgrade, all the composers were asked to vote for the best song of this year's Eurovision and the Romanian entry came first. Andrei Tudor was not in the best mood after the big final and the 20th position of his country but when an EBU member anounced him that he and his delegation must go to the Euroclub to get his prize because his song came first he felt amazing. "I really wished for a better place for Romania and that thing let me down but because my song came first among all the 43 Eurovision entries that makes feel better. This thing also proves that my composition was great and that i made my job well and thats the bottom line."declared Andrei to esctoday.com right after the final.
The entire Romanian delegation was feeling great after Andrei's composition came first and everybody in the hotel were they were staying were congratulating them for their song and performance.
Romania finished 20th with 45 points but the song and the performance came 1st in the composers contest and in our hearts.
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Yes, yes...Music mafia exists...Come in Romania and U'll see...The old dinosaurs a.k.a producers, composers from the old generation, comunists...They and their families and descents rule over the contests in Romania, including major festivals like Mamaia, The Golden Stag and, of course, The National Selection for Eurovision. Andrei Tudor is the composer of this year's romanian song for ESC - "Pe-o margine de lume". He is the son of Ionel Tudor, the composer of "Tell me why", who represented Romania in 2002 at Eurovision. Ionel Tudor is the conductor of the Radio's Big Band. Usually in the big festivals they rule. Ionel is the orchestra's conductor and his son, Andrei is playing the piano. They participate and also they compete, their songs being sung by different singers on these festivals. Usually they also win, and not just some awards. The big awards, of course. And that is because in the juries there are also old fashioned and comunists composers, colleagues and friends with them (Horia Moculescu, Cornel Fugaru & Mirela Voiculescu Fugaru, Titus Andrei, Viorel Gavrila, Dumitru Lupu and many others), so it's like a tradition now. The strange thing is, "Pe-o margine de lume" was rejected as a composition, in last year's "Mamaia" festival in august. If it was so good, why did they reject it? The head of the jury - Madalin Voicu, felt sick and tired of the Tudor family and their presence everywhere, so he rejected all thier compositions in that festival, including "Pe-o margine de lume". After 5-6 months, although one of the National Final stipulated for a song not being broadcasted before October 1, seems rules are made to be broken...Or, rules are made for...only some! The original version back then didn't include Nico, only Vlad...It was bigger than 3 minutes and since it was rejected from the Mamaia preselection, they said it was never broadcasted public, so they had the right to submit it for the National Selection for ESC 2008, this year in January. And so they did, and it was accept it. Madalin Voicu himself gave them 12 points in the 1st semifinal...Imagine how big the pression was for this song to win, if the man who rejected the same song 6 months before, now he supported them and gave 12p!!!!! Anyways, that's only a part of the romanian music mafia. I'm glad this way Andrei Tudor's career it will be over, since everyone blames them these days for the poor result, and there are well-deserved reactions, since the public's choise was another. But if TVR wanted something, so they did. I hope in the future no singer will want to sing Andrei's compositions (no way the new generation, and I bet even the old music generation saw the alarm signal, and they will avoid him). Buh-bye! The End
Positive outcomes
1) I think Charlotte Perelli is out for good
2) I hope Zjelko will not return
3) I hope Dana will not try again
4) I hope Carola will stay away
give chance to new talents, new voices, new faces, MUSIC MAFIA, we dont want to see your monsteed botoxed faces again in 2009
Only 20th place. All my favourites ended very bad this year. Excpet Armenia, Greece & Serbia. Then, everything under place 10. 
Congratulations! A well-deserved award for a beautiful song.
I’ve never heard of something like music mafia 
We have it in Serbia too, then. It is Zeljko Joksimovic
I’m glad for Romania anyway, good song
This song was definately one of the best this year! Its such a shame it didn't do particularly well in the final! it had much more true quality than the winners!
He was spot on but SHE was afwul. In the final she comprehensively ruined the song with a few audible misses. At least they substituted her dress from the semi with something a lot more eye pleasing.
The song is so Retro-Eurovision, you've just got to love it.
Oh and there was me thinking Dima Bilan's piece of %$^ was the best song.
YES!! This was my favourite! *joy*
Best composition, best singer and best jeans! lol.
Ridiculous! The best composition comes out 20th!? That suggests that the performance ruined it (which we all know isn't true) or that the draw was unlucky (which can be argued). One thing is sure - tastes can vary enormously from person to person, as I had the opportunity to see for myself while questioning my friends on their favourites.
The article's author forgot to mention...This guy and his father belong to the romanian music mafia, they are like everywhere, like an octupus, with the tentacles everywhere. It was well deserved the 20nd place, we couldn't be happier. In fact, we could be even happier if they would have ended up on the last place, where they belong... Cheers!
OMG such a boring song! It would have already been too old-fashioned for our Sanremo festival 20 years ago. "Oro" should have won, in my opinion.
It is a beautifull song ... great opener for this years final! It proves that quality is more important than an act. Can anyone inform me if this song is available on cd-single???
A high class song and performance. Well done!
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