Wikipedia:WikiProject Eurovision/News/Daily Issue 6

Eurovision Daily News Update 20 August 2023 Recently in the news... Netta Barzilai, Eurovision 2018 winner, sings Hatikva at protests in wake of the 2023 Huwara shooting. TVMONACO will debut on 1 September 2023, giving the country an avenue to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 Kalush Orchestra have announced their North American tour dates, set to stop in Vancouver, Seattle, and San Francisco. Rappers Joost and Donnie plan to apply to represent Netherlands in 2024 The Eurovision Cruise will return this year, hosted by OGAE Finland taking place Thursday August 24 to August 26, 2023. Happy birthday to... Alice Kessler Ellen Kessler Kristína Peláková Did you know... Gustaph has a Master of Music degree and teaches pop music, including songwriting, technical vocals, and ensemble. Photo of the day is... Stage for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Yerevan, Armenia. Featured Eurovision entrant... Şebnem Paker (born 20 July 1977) is a Turkish guitarist, singer and music teacher. Paker attended the Department of Classical Guitar at Istanbul University State Conservatory between 1992 and 1996. Later, she studied singing at Marmara University Music Department. Paker represented Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 and Eurovision Song Contest 1997. Her 1997 entry, "Dinle", composed by Levent Çoker and written by Mehtap Alnıtemiz, won third place. This was Turkey's best result in the contest until its 1st-place win in 2003. Paker released her only album, also called Dinle, in August 1997. In 1998, she once again competed in the national finals, organized by TRT, with the song "Çal". With its moving melody and embellished with ethnic Turkish instruments, it was an attempt to attract the attention of European audiences. Her goal was to achieve a more successful result at the Eurovision Song Contest each year, however the song was not chosen to represent Turkey at the contest that year. Paker graduated from Marmara University Music Education Singing Department in 2000. She has been working as a music teacher since 2004, after working for 4 years in private educational institutions affiliated to the Ministry of National Education. She taught music at Avni Akyol Fine Arts High School in Istanbul until 2018; since then, she has been employed at the Aydın Doğan Fine Arts High School.She also coauthored a textbook to be used in art high schools in Turkey. Paker has been married to Soner Odabaş since 22 September 2012 and the couple has two children.