Meet the team: Emily Herbert

Here at The Euro Trip we're delighted to welcome a couple of brand new members of the team. First up welcome @EurovisionEmiy.

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"Hey there!

My name is Emily (full name: Emily Grace Herbert), though many people call me Em.

I’m currently 17 years old and live in Leeds, England where I was born and raised. I’ve been watching the Eurovision Song Contest since I was 8 years old, my first contest being 2006. From then onwards I’ve watched the contest casually, but since 2012 I’ve fully gotten myself into it using social media.

Emily's favourite artist, Alexander Rybak

My favourite contest is a toss-up between 2009 and 2013, mainly because I loved both the standard of songs and the graphic designs such as the stages and logos, but also because they feature two out of many favourite winners of mine. I’d say that Alexander Rybak is the artist I now follow the most outside of the contest, though I love watching the National Finals as it then gives the potential to discover new music/artists that I could further explore if I liked their style (plus, it’s fun to livetweet along with shows like that, giving quite unforgettable experiences!).

I haven’t yet gone to see a show live unfortunately, however I’m planning on going to Amsterdam in 2015 to Eurovision In Concert to meet some of my Eurovision friends I’ve met over Twitter and to finally see a show. I have a few favourite Eurovision countries (aka ones I seem to love the entries for ever year) such as Norway, FYR Macedonia, Serbia and Estonia. 

My favourite genre within the contest is probably Balkan ballads e.g Nije Ljubav Stvar/Oro as I find they’re so soothing and peaceful, plus I prefer non-English entries as I love the sounds of other languages. That being said, I thoroughly enjoy Schlager such as that being shown in Melodifestivalen occasionally, making that NF amongst my favourites.

I hope you enjoy my posts!"