The song about a love was performed by 21-year-old student Eldar Gasimov and Nigar Jamal, 30, a mother-of-two who lives in London. The duo, known as Ell-Nikki, collected total 221 points, and won the world’s biggest music competition with one of television’s largest audiences - Eurovision Song competition.

Italy (189 points )was the second and Sweden came third on 185 in the 56th competition, hosted by Germany. Favorites like Ireland, Britain and France had disappointing results. Georgia took 9th place by group “Eldrine”.

The Azeri entry had Swedish roots. It was composed by Swedes Stefan Orn, Sandra Bjurman and Iain Farquharson and four Swedish dancers accompanied Ell-Nikki.

Jamal, who has an economics degree, said it was hard to grasp the fairytale victory for Azerbaijan, a former Soviet republic.



“A few months ago I was a housewife and mother of two children — and my biggest dream was to represent my country in the Eurovision Song Contest,” she told news conference. “My dream came true: I’m a winner of Eurovision.”


18 May 2011