Stella Mwangi is the 2011 Norway representative in the annual Eurovision song contest. Stella emerged the most voted for artist among the four super finalists gunning a total of 280,217 votes with the closest rival managing 155,059 votes only.The Eurovision song contest will be held in Düsseldorf, Germany with semi-finals taking place on 10th and 12th May 2011, with the final planned for the evening of 14 May 2011. Forty-three countries have confirmed their participation in this year’s contest.
Only one day after "Haba Haba" took the MGP third semifinal victory, it knocked Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" off of the top spot on the Norwegian iTunes chart. Stella's high-energy performance and easy-to-remember hook made this song a no-brainer for the victory. If she can keep this momentum up, she might end up as a front-runner for this year's ESC title... And, as a point of trivia, "Haba Haba" will be the first time that Swahili will be heard on the Eurovision stage! "Haba haba hujaza kibaba" is a proverb meaning "little by little fills up the measure". According to Wikipedia, this will be the 53rd language heard at the ESC (52nd if you don't count imaginary languages
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