The Eurovision Song Contest has officially kicked-off in Vienna with the first semi-final. Sixteen acts pulled out all the stops to avoid elimination to make it to Saturday nights final.

One of this years competition favourites sailed through, Russia and Polina Gagarina with a Million Voices.

Eurovision is in it's 60th year and this time its theme is Building Bridges .... not sure how far that will be reflected in a contest infamous for its political voting.

Romania got through with Voltaj…
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