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Icelandic team wins Best backing performers award
The 2009 esctoday.com Award for Best backing performers goes to...
- ...Erna Hrönn Ólafsdóttir, Hera Björk, Friðrik Ómar, Hallgrímur Jensson and Börkur Birgisson of Iceland
Erna Hrönn Ólafsdóttir, Hera Björk, Friðrik Ómar, Hallgrímur Jensson and Börkur Birgisson supported Icelandic singer Yohanna on stage when she represented Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest this year, won the first semi final and finished second in the final with the song Is it true?.
- You can find the list of all award results revealed so far this year here.
The winners
This is the third esctoday.com award for Iceland overall following the victories in the Best duo/grop performance and Best duo/group vocal performance categories last year. Therefore, it is also the third award for Friðrik Ómar as he was one of the two members of Euroband, who took home the two trophies last year. The Best backing performers award is given out for the very first time this year.
Yohanna was supported by three backing singers, who were Erna Hrönn Ólafsdóttir, Hera Björk Þórhallsdóttir and Friðrik Ómar as well as cellist Hallgrímur Jensson and guitarist Börkur Birgisson.
Erna Hrönn Ólafsdóttir had already tried to represent Iceland as a lead singer twice. In the 2007 Icelandic selection, she did not make it past the semi finals with Örlagadís and the same happened in 2009, when she was eliminated in the second semi final with Glópagull.
Hera Björk took part in the second semi final of the 2007 Icelandic selection with Mig dreymdi and in 2009, she finished second in the Danish national final with Someday. She was also a backing singer for Euroband in Eurovision 2008.
Friðrik Ómar was one half of that duo and he had already finished third in the 2006 Icelandic national final with Það sem verður and second in 2007 with Eldur.
The complete results
The Icelandic team was the clear winner of this category ahead of the singers and dancers from Norway. The other three nominees are very close to each other with a tie for third place between Ukraine and Sweden.
- Iceland - 36.9%
- Norway - 23.1%
- Sweden - 13.4%
Ukraine - 13.4% - Turkey - 13.2%
The winning performance
esctoday.com interview with Friðrik Ómar in April 2009
Erna Hrönn Ólafsdóttir and Hera Björk performing at the Icelandic Eurovision party in Moscow, May 2009
The next award result to be revealed today will be Most traditional Europop song.
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- Iceland: Vote for your favourite song in the final of Songvakeppni Sjonvarpsins
- Malta: Vote for your favourite act in the final of Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2012
- Hungary: Vote for your favourite act in the second semifinal of A Dal
- Norway: Vote for your favourite song in the third semifinal of Melodi Grand Prix
- Sweden: Vote for your favourite act in the first semifinal of Melodifestivalen
- Malta: Vote for your favourite act in the semifinal of Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2012
- Bulgaria: Vote for your favourite act in the Bulgarian national final 2012
- Latvia: Vote for your favourite act in the final of Eirodziesma 2012
- Belarus: Vote for your favourite act in the final of EuroFest 2012
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Well, they were singing, and after all it is still a songcontest. But in my opinion the Norwegian backings were better. They were not only singing but also a big part of the performance.
They dont really deserve this one, cos they just stood there swaying .. Ukraine and Norway had really energetic perfomances, where it actually took some skill to do what they did =) So I think they deserve it =)
@ Richard . i bet it would go to Patrick Quchene from Belgium
Hilarious awards, backing singers, creativity. Who will win the prize for most nose hair ???
Fridrik
@ Mario Mir
lol well said, although there are many annoying greek, turkish and swedish fans as well!
@New in Town, if we look at how often Ukraine won the esctoday awards, i wouldn't really call this western BIAS..
many people with good talent were on escstage, but with many good voices with her, Yohanna did bring the best team to bring her song to the 2nd place. To me that is award worthy !
My vote goes to Maltese fans aswell ...
Ι voted for Norway, Iceland was my second best!
The only clear awards here is : the most annoying fans going to the Maltese ones and its angerous habit of spaming all forums with links to their awful and quality-zero NF!!!
No wonder, Iceland's backing singers were all stars. Quite predictable then 
Random winner. It should have been Ukraine. Norway and Sweden were more worthy too.
I voted for Sweden.
this one should have gone to Norway .
I think Norway and Ukraine deserved this award more than Iceland.
Haha... what a joke
and what exactly did they do? Compare that to Ukraine's actual SHOW... actual PERFORMANCE
this is silly... western BIAS 150%
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