Magdi Rúzsa, the 22 year-old Hungarian girl from Kishegyes (near the Hungarian border in Serbia) was discovered in 2006 thanks to the televised pop idol contest Megastar in Hungary. She grew up in her hometown and studied in Subotica as a maternity nurse. After the high school, she wanted to go to Medical University, but as she could not afford it she decided to try her luck at the pop idol contest. Thus the smallest child of the family made her way to Budapest….and the story began.
What happened to Magdi from this moment on was a real fairytale. The very first appearance in the series predestined her to be the winner, from week to week more and more people fell in love with her true, passionate, unique voice. The whole industry praised her and claimed her to be the biggest happening in the last 30 years. She was singing like her big favourite Janis Joplin.
After winning the competition, her cover album with the performed songs in the finals went to triple platinum status and has sold to date around 80 000 copies. Her first artist album “Ördögi Angyal†(Devilish Angel) was released on her birthday (28th November) and has sold 36 000 copies until today with only one video. These two records were the biggest selling releases in 2006 in Hungary. It was therefore no surprise that Magdi was voted New Talent of the Year, and therefore she has the chance to represent Hungary at the Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki, 2007. She picked her own song Unsubstantial Blues, in order to show her fantastic voice and express her emotions.
We all wish her good luck and hope that after conquering the Hungarian music lovers, she can show her extreme talent to a European audience…..and she did.
She got in the final of Eurovision Song Contest on second place, after receiving several votes from the following territories: Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands, UK, Ireland, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia.
In the final - which was followed by 120 million people - she reached the 9 position, qualifying Hungary in the final of next years contest, but the most important fact, that her song, Unsubstantial Blues was voted by the 42 composers as the best song of the contest.
After this huge success, there has a big demand has generated to her album, and we receive every day plenty of e-mails in order to supply the record on the above territories. Interesting fact is that her video on youtube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KHPMae29iOw was viewed before the final around 60 000 times, since the semi-final the number of viewers has been doubled and it is now close to 130 000 views. She has also been approached by international agencies to tour in Europe.
We believe these signs strongly indicate, there is interest for her album in Europe…
You can listen into her album here!
