Eurovision... and latins more connected to the world.

I didn't know it.. but it turns out that there is a music contest on TV capable of having 1B (yes, one billion people) watching it.

Even more, it was exactly that event that catapulted the music career of Celine Dion in 1988 (representing switzerland) and ABBA in the seventies.

Every year around mid-May, representatives from 40+ european countries (and other european friends) select one representative from each country and enter the song contest.

The rules are emphatical that votes from one specific country -which happen over cell phones mostly- can NOT be for the representative of that country.

Anyway, cutting to the chase, by saturday May 19th, youtube.com had within its top 20 results the full video segments of the final performance of finland, russia, and lituana.

Some years ago, somebody in latin america would have HARDLY known about stuff like this... but if you are among the many that are being born this year.. that is just part of a normal life.