Italy and Portugal were the frontrunners going into last night’s final of the Eurovision Song Contest, an annual song and dance fest – held in Kiev this year – whose global audience topped 200mn people last year.Italian Francesco Gabbani is leading the pack with a number, viewed nearly 114mn times on YouTube, that mixes Buddhist imagery with a dancing ape, and he explains as poking fun at the West’s superficial embrace of eastern culture.Vying for first place is Portugal’s Salvador Sobral, performing a jazz-style ballad written by sister Luisa.According to the bookmakers, third favourite is Bulgaria’s Kristian Kostov, the youngest …read more
Source: Gulf times
