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Hotel FM - Wikipedia

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Hotel FM

Background information
Origin	Oradea, Romania
Genres	Pop, Rock
Years active	2005-present

Members	Gabriel Băruţa (piano) Alex Szűz (drums)

Past members	Darius Neagu (percussion) Vicky Sava (harp) Marius Văduva (percussion) Diana Mărmăneanu (dancer) Vlady Săteanu (bassist) Gabi Drăgan (drums) Nicolae Vedinas (vocals, flute) David Bryan (singer)

Website	hotelfm.ro

Hotel FM is a Romanian band, formed in April 2005 by British expatriate David Bryan and his friends Gabriel Băruţa and Alex Szűz. The band held concerts in several cities in Romania and Germany and launched a promotional CD in spring 2006.^[1]

Founding member Bryan, who is lead singer, is originally from Newton Aycliffe in North East England, where he worked as a binman before settling in Romania.^[2]

The Hotel FM story began in 2005, when the Romanian composer Gabriel Băruţa recruited a few musicians from his hometown Oradea to create a new sound, a modern pop-rock feel based on melody and innovation, specific to the songs he wrote.

Throughout the years, Hotel FM has comprised Nicolae Vedinaş (vocals, flute), Berek Szilard (vocals), Marius Pop (guitar), Vlady Săteanu (bass), Gabi Drăgan (drums) and Sanyi Zakar (guitar).

The band has played many concerts in cities of Romania and Germany and released a promotional CD in the spring of 2006.

Eurovision

Hotel FM placed 4th in the Eurovision 2010 national selection final with song "Come As One". The Hotel FM line-up for the Romanian finals was: David Bryan (vocals), Gabriel Băruţa (guitar and backing vocals), Vicky Sava (backing vocals) and Darius Neagu (drums, backing vocals), accompanied by the dancers Mihuţ “Levi” Lennon and Diana Mărmăreanu.

The band entered the Romanian national final for Eurovision 2011 with the song "Change" (music: Gabriel Băruţa, lyrics: Alexandra Ivan and Băruţa). They won the national final with 22 points, earning the right to represent Romania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011.^[3]^[4] They qualified from the 2nd semifinal, on 12 May, and competed in the final, on 14 May, coming 17th.

References

^ "About Hotel FM". HotelFM.ro. Archived from the original on 2011-01-05.
^ "Eurovision dream over for former North-East binman". The Northern Echo. 16 May 2011. Retrieved 2022-02-08.
^ Busa, Alexandru (1 January 2011). "Hotel FM to represent Romania in Düsseldorf". EscToday.
^ G., Luke (1 January 2011). "Hotel FM to Düsseldorf". EscDaily. Archived from the original on 11 January 2011.

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Paula Seling and Ovi with "Playing with Fire"	Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011	Succeeded by Mandinga with "Zaleilah"

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Participation	~~1993~~ 1994 ~~1996~~ 1998 2000 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 ~~2016~~ 2017 2018 2019 ~~2020~~ 2021 2022 2023
Artists	Theodor Andrei Luminița Anghel Monica Anghel ~~Ovidiu Anton~~ Dan Bittman Cezar ~~Dida Drăgan~~ Elena Alex Florea Hotel FM The Humans Ilinca Mandinga Nico Nicola Mălina Olinescu Ovi Marcel Pavel Ester Peony Roxen Sanda Paula Seling ~~Sincron~~ Sistem Taxi Todomondo Mihai Trăistariu Vlad Voltaj Wrs
Songs	~~"Alcohol You"~~ "Amnesia" "The Balkan Girls" "Change" "D.G.T. (Off and On)" "De la capăt (All Over Again)" "Dincolo de nori" "Don't Break My Heart" "Eu cred" "Goodbye" "I Admit" "It's My Life" "Let Me Try" "Liubi, Liubi, I Love You" "Llámame" "Miracle" ~~"Moment of Silence"~~ "The Moon" ~~"Nu pleca"~~ "On a Sunday" "Pe-o margine de lume" "Playing with Fire" ~~"Rugă pentru pacea lumii"~~ "Tell Me Why" "Tornerò" "Yodel It!" "Zaleilah"
Note: Entries scored out signify where Romania did not compete

Eurovision Song Contest 2011

Countries

Final	Austria Azerbaijan Bosnia and Herzegovina Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Lithuania Moldova Romania Russia Serbia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Ukraine United Kingdom
Semi-finals	Albania Armenia Belarus Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Israel Latvia Macedonia Malta Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal San Marino Slovakia Turkey

Artists

Final	A Friend in London Nadine Beiler Blue Eldrine Ell and Nikki Raphael Gualazzi Hotel FM Getter Jaani Jedward Maja Keuc Lena Dino Merlin Mika Newton Nina Paradise Oskar Lucía Pérez Anna Rossinelli Eric Saade Evelina Sašenko Sjonni's Friends Amaury Vassili Alexey Vorobyov Kati Wolf Loukas Yorkas feat. Stereo Mike Zdob și Zdub
Semi-finals	3JS Dana International Daria Emmy Aurela Gaçe Poli Genova Homens da Luta Vlatko Ilievski Musiqq Stella Mwangi Christos Mylordos Senit Magdalena Tul Twiins Glen Vella Anastasia Vinnikova Witloof Bay Yüksek Sadakat

Songs

Final	"Angel" "Čaroban" "C'est ma vie" "Change" "Coming Home" "Da Da Dam" "Get You" "I Can" "In Love for a While" "Lipstick" "Love in Rewind" "Madness of Love" "New Tomorrow" "No One" "One More Day" "Popular" "Que me quiten lo bailao" "Rockefeller Street" "Running Scared" "The Secret Is Love" "So Lucky" "Sognu" "Taken by a Stranger" "Watch My Dance" "What About My Dreams?"
Semi-finals	"Angel in Disguise" "Boom Boom" "Celebrate" "Ding Dong" "Feel the Passion" "Haba Haba" "I Love Belarus" "I'm Still Alive" "Jestem" "Live It Up" "A luta é alegria" "Na inat" "Never Alone" "One Life" "Rusinka" "San aggelos s'agapisa" "Stand By" "With Love Baby"

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