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esctoday.com Awards 2009
Estonian team wins Most creative effort award
The 2009 esctoday.com Award for Most creative effort goes to...
- ..Rändajad of Estonia, written by Sven Lõhmus and performed by Urban Symphony
Rändajad was the Estonian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. Performed by Urban Symphony, it finished third in the second semi final and sixth in the final.
- You can find the list of all award results revealed so far this year here.
The winner
This is the second esctoday.com award for Estonia both this year and overall having achieved their first award yesterday in the Best duo/group performance category. This award was given out for the first time.
The Estonian entry was written by Sven Lõhmus. Rändajad was probably the first Eurovision Song Contest to mix Electronic music with a classical strings arrangment. Sandra Nurmsala is one of the few lead singers to have also played the violin on stage, the only others being Egon Egemann (Switzerland 1990) and Alexander Rybak (Norway 2009). Sven Lõhmus owns a record label in Estonia and he is actually best known for writing more classic music including songs for Vanilla Ninja and the 2005 Estonian entry Let's get loud.
The complete results
This was a very tight decision and the Estonian entry won with only 0.2% ahead of the Ukrainian entry Be my Valentine (Anti-crisis girl). The voting between the third and fourth place was equally close but saw the Portuguese entry finishing ahead of the winning entry from Norway. Armenia closes the category.
- Estonia - 25.7%
- Ukraine - 25.5%
- Portugal - 17.8%
- Norway - 17.7%
- Armenia - 13.4%
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 stage effects, Best female vocal performance, Best male vocal performance and Best duo/group vocal performance.
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great song. well desreved.
If you think Urban Symphony deserved to win this prize and you want to comment more, you can do it on their website: http://urbansymphony(...)bansymphony.eu/forum . Cheers, see you there!
Urban Symphony deserved this! More information about this Estonian great band and news can be found on their fan site: http://urbansymphony(...)ansymphony.eu/forum! See you there 
well this was tough... urban symphony was greatm but norway were also deserving as it successfully incorporated norwegian folk with pop and frikar were awesome... somehow slutlana still should have won for me, any woman who boldy displays that the grand canyon has nothing on her nether regions deserves something....
Anotehr deserved winner! So glad that writhing performance from Ukraine didn't win 
They definately deserved this one, very original, well done Urban Symphony =D
i dont like Ukraine ong but i thing should had won this award.
Portugal was my best here, and Estonia was second. Ukraine was second only by 0.02% less. How on earth is this possible???
Another very deserved award! And I was so surprised about Ukraine, real s***!
Good for the Urban Symphony team! Well earned award.
I really like Estonia's entry but I thought Ukraine should have got this one with the hell machine and the spartans and drums.
what's creative in Norway or Ukraine ? Anyway out of these 5 Estonia should have won by a huge mile, there's nothing creative in Ukraine typical crap ! Oh dear ! Bosnia should have been nominated though..
very well deserved award for this!
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