Hotel FM

Hotel FM
General information
Genre (s)	pop
founding	2005
Website	www.hotelfm.ro
Current occupation
singing	David Bryan
Piano , guitar , backing vocals	Gabriel Băruța
Drums	Alex Szuz
former members
singing	Berek Szilard
Drums, backing vocals	Darius Neagu
Drums	Gabi Dragan
guitar	Marius Pop
Vocals, flute	Nicolae Vedinaș
guitar	Sanyi Zakar
Background vocals	Vicky Sava
bass	Vlady Săteanu

Hotel FM is a Romanian pop band that was founded in 2005 and competed in the Eurovision Song Contest for Romania in May 2011 .

Career

Hotel FM after winning the Romanian ESC preliminary decision

All first members come from Oradea and formed at the initiative of the composer Gabriel Băruțas , who was looking for musicians to realize his musical concepts. This was followed by first appearances in Germany and Romania and in spring 2006 a first CD for promotional purposes . The line-up changed continuously.

In 2010, the group took part in the Romanian preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest Selecţia Naţională and took fourth place with the ballad Come as One . Again under a different formation, she reapplied for 2011, with the English-language title Change , written by Gabriel Băruţa and Alexandra Ivan , prevailing against 15 competitors in the New Year's Eve show on the responsible broadcaster TVR, thanks to an additional jury evaluation chaired by three-time Irish winner Johnny Logan . In the audience vote, however, only second place was achieved. As the overall winner, the band represented Romania at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest , which took place on May 10, 12 and 14 in Düsseldorf .

On May 12, 2011, the formation interpreted the English-language title in the second ESC semi-final in Düsseldorf, whereupon it made it into the final two days later. In the final they finished 17th with 77 points.

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ hotelfm.ro Biography ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Esctoday.com: Romania Sends Paula Seling & Ovi to the Eurovision Song Contest ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ eurovision.tv Hotel FM victorious in Romania