A group of Polish folk-singing grandmothers on Wednesday won the race to choose Poland’s official team anthem for the looming European championships on home soil. The 18-member group “Jarzebina” – Polish for rowanberry – swept aside established opponents including established rock and pop names, a ska band and a rapper with their upbeat ethno-tune “Koko Euro Spoko”, which translates loosely as “Clucking Cool Euro”. Poland’s football association had opened its “White and Red Hit” competition to all comers, with the list honed down to 10 ahead of a live concert […]
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Everybody is getting ready for UEFA EURO 2012: Doctors are learning English, and Gaitana wrote an anthem for Euro 2012. Song of Gaitana calls Ukrainians to unite all the people around the championship. Gaitana plans to perform the new song in several versions, as a solo artist and with the Friends of the euro championship. Gaitana received the titel of an official Friend of the Euro-2012 in early July. By becoming a Friend of Gaitana has promised not to get bored, and kept her promise. She writes songs adedicated to […]