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Elmar's Favourite Singer is Ivo Linna!
1st December 2007
Congratulations!!!
Choosing favorites has become a tradition of Radio Elmar. With the help of our listeners, we have chosen FAVOURITE SONG which turned out to be Ruja’s Suudlus läbi jäätunud klaasi and the FAVORITE ACTOR was voted to be Marko Matvere.
From 15 to 26 November, we chose FAVORITE SINGER. The listeners could vote for their favorite by calling from landline phones, sending texts from mobile phones, and also by sending us e-mails. People could vote for an active or a non-active singer, there were no limits in this part. The aim of the campaign was to find out not the present favorite but THE MOST BELOVED SINGER OF ALL TIME.
Altogether, 4076 people voted and 168 different artists were mentioned. For the entire vote, Ivo Linna and Mati Nuude gathered the most votes. Of female artists, only Anne Veski made it to the top 10, also Heli Lääts could be found in the top 20. Female artists who gathered significant amount of votes were also Hanna-Liina Võsa, Lea Liitmaa, Gerli Padar, Helgi Sallo, Ines, Marju Länik, Liisi Koikson and Maarja-Liis ilus. Of 168 mentioned artists there were 59 different female singers and 109 male singers.
FAVORITE SINGERS TOP 5 turned out to be the following:
1) IVO LINNA
2) MATI NUUDE
3) TARMO PIHLAP
4) Vello Orumets
5) Anne Veski
In WOMEN’S TOP 5 there were Anne Veski, Heli Lääts, Hanna-Liina Võsa, Lea Liitmaa and Gerli Padar. MEN’S TOP 5: Ivo Linna, Mati Nuude, Tarmo Pihlap, Vello Orumets and Mait Maltis
On 31 October, Elmar broadcasted a special program dedicated to the favorite singers, where both the most beloved female artist and people’s true favorite were interviewed.
Anne Veski, who is in Moscow at the moment, told that she really needed such a boost of positivity and, of course, sent her thanks to Estonian people and Radio Elmar.
Ivo Linna was, to put it mildly, shocked by the congratulation call and could not believe to “have been the chosen one”. Ivo said that he himself would choose Georg Ots to be his all-time favorite singer but he also really likes songs performed by Kalmer Tennosaar. From female artists, he mentioned Marju Kuut’s early repertoire and also Kaire Vilgats’s wonderful vocal abilities. Elmar’s favorite singer told that he has probably recorded about 1000 songs in his life but altogether performed maybe about 5000 different songs. The most beautiful song of his career is Laula mu laulu helisev hääl.
The award for Elmar’s Favorite Singer, a glass clock, was made by artist Eeva Käsper
