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esctoday.com Awards 2009
Urban Symphony win Best duo/group performance award
The 2009 esctoday.com Award for Best duo/group performance goes to...
- ...Urban Symphony of Estonia
Urban Symphony represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest this year and and finished third in the second semi final and sixth in the final with the song Rändajad.
The winners
This is the very first esctoday.com award for Estonia and therefore also the first victory in this category. Previously, this award has gone to Lordi (Finland) in 2006, D'Nash (Spain) in 2007 and Euroband (Iceland) in 2008.
Urban Symphony centers around 21-year-old lead singer and violinist Sandra Nurmsalu. She became famous in 2007 as a contestant in the talent search Kaks takti etti. The same show has also seen many other Estonian Eurovision Song Contest representatives like Ines (2000), Gerli Padar (2007), Tanel Padar (2001) and Silvi Vrait (1994), to name just a few.
The other members of Urban Symphony are viola player Mann Helstein, who has performed with various orchestras all over Europe, cellist Johanna Mängel, who is also working as a journalist and cellist Mari Möldre, who is the youngest group member at the age of 17 and has performed in many countries including Australia. Urban Symphony met during the show Kaks takti etti, when a bands round was held.
Urban Symphony took part in the Estonian national final for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest with their entry Rändajad, although Sandra Nurmsalu was originally announced to take part as a soloist. They could win the selection and will represent Estonia in Moscow. Rändajad is the first entry performed in standard Estonian since 1998, although the 2004 entry was performed in the Võro dialect. Their song reached the charts in various countries around Europe.
The complete results
Urban Symphony were the clear winners of this category ahead of AySel & Arash from Azerbaijan. Portugal's Flor-de-Lis follow in third place.
- Urban Symphony (Estonia) - 30.3%
- AySel & Arash (Azerbaijan) - 21.7%
- Flor-de-Lis (Portugal) - 18.5%
- Regina (Bosnia & Herzegovina) - 15.2%
- Inga & Anush (Armenia) - 14.2%
The winning performance
esctoday.com interview with Urban Symphony in May 2009 prior to the Eurovision Song Contest
Tomorrow, we will present the winners in the categories Best act not to qualify from the semi finals, Most traditional Europop song, Most creative effort and Best backing performers.
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Great song, something really different for Eurovision =) Congrats Estonia =D
That's absolutely a good choice: great song, great voices, great performance and sound either fresh or traditional. Songs like Randajaad give ESC a new dignity. Many, many, many congratulations.
And Merry Christmas to everybody from Italy!
P.S. Yesterday our tv sent the Concert for the Peace Nobel Prize, with a very impressive live version of Fairytale!
My choice yet again! I'm so pleased, this was my favourite song this year and the performance was very impressive. 
Great performance (and song)!
Well done to Urban Symphony!
Merry Christmas people!
Apart from male performance all my favourites have come last!!! (even with 'male performance' my other favourite from 2009 came last!!)
But I do love all the winners so far and Randajad is such a nice song.
Congrats 
though AySel & Arash were my personal favourites.
That's nice, another well deserved winner. I loved Regina and Flor-de-Lis too, liked Inga and Anush. As for AySel & Arash ... no comment!
I was with Regina!! Estonia was my second best.
Now this is a well deserved one! I wished Estonia or Israel would win this award 
well deserved! great performance.
Happy Christmas!
only regina would have deserved it as well ! a great prize for a great song !
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Congrats Urban Symphony, such a great song, definately the best Estonian entry
Happy christmas everyone x
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