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{{Infobox song
| name       = Sanomi
| cover      = Sanomi.jpg
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| type       = single
| artist     = Urban Trad
| album      =
| B-side     = Get Reel
| released   = 2003
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| genre      = Modern Celtic
| length     = 03:01
| label      = Mercury Records
| writer     = Yves Barbieux
| producer   =
* Yves Barbieux
* Nicolas Vandooren
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| misc       = {{Infobox song contest entry
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| song         = {{flagicon|Belgium}} "Sanomi"
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| year         = 2003
| country      = Belgium
| artist       = Urban Trad
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| language     = Imaginary
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| composer     = Yves Barbieux
| lyricist     = Yves Barbieux
| place        = 2nd
| points       = 165
| prev         = Sister
| prev_link    = Sister (Sergio & The Ladies song)
| next         = 1 Life
| next_link    = 1 Life (Xandee song)
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"'''Sanomi'''" is a song recorded by Belgian six-piece band Urban Trad, written by Yves Barbieux. It is best known as the {{esccnty|Belgium|y=2003|t=Belgian}} entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, held in [[Place:Riga|Riga]].

==At Eurovision==
This was the second time that Belgium finished as the runner-up, the first being Jean Vallée with "L'amour ça fait chanter la vie" in {{escyr|1978}}, and it was also the country's best placing in the contest since Sandra Kim's victory with "J'aime la vie" in {{escyr|1986}}.

The song was the twenty-second in the running order of the 2003 contest, following {{esccnty|Latvia|y=2003}}'s F.L.Y. with "Hello From Mars" and preceding {{esccnty|Estonia|y=2003}}'s Ruffus with "Eighties Coming Back". At the close of voting, it had received 165 points, placing second in a field of 26.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eurovision.tv/event/riga-2003/final|title=Final of Riga 2003|website=eurovision.tv|access-date=2020-04-15}}</ref>

==The song==
The song is remarkable for a number of reasons. Perhaps the most readily apparent is that it was the first occasion that a song not in a [[Philosophy:Natural language|natural language]] had been performed at the Eurovision Song Contest (prompting the famous remark of BBC commentator Terry Wogan "they've got four languages in Belgium and they're singing in an imaginary one, the very essence of the Euro").<ref name="metro">{{cite web | url=https://metro.co.uk/2016/01/31/14-of-terry-wogans-most-memorable-eurovision-quotes-5654140/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201165722/https://metro.co.uk/2016/01/31/14-of-terry-wogans-most-memorable-eurovision-quotes-5654140/ | date=31 Jan 2016 | archive-date=1 Feb 2016 | title=14 of Terry Wogan's most memorable quotes from Eurovision | author=Caroline Westbrook | publisher=Metro | quote=8 - ‘They’ve got four languages in Belgium…and they’re singing in an imaginary one. The very essence of the Euro.’...very nearly won the contest... | url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://uk.tv.yahoo.com/gimmicks-eurovision-song-contest-copenhagen-2014-compare-previous-114300396.html|title=Celebrity - Yahoo News UK|access-date=24 April 2017}}</ref>

Further, the song is remarkable for having featured in one of the closest finishes in the contest's history, ultimately finishing with just two fewer points than the eventual winner (Sertab Erener with "Everyway That I Can" for {{esccnty|Turkey|y=2003}}) and only one point above third-placed {{esccnty|Russia|y=2003}} (t.A.T.u. with "Ne Ver', Ne Boysia").

==Versions==
Two versions of the song exist on record. One was the standard album version (4:08) and another version was released on single and on the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 compilation album.  Often known as the "Eurovision edit", it cut down to 3:01 and it had Soetkin Collier's vocals removed.

This arose because a few months before the contest, the selectors dropped singer Soetkin Collier on the advice of the Belgian security services, who claimed that she had had far right sympathies in the past.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/1422729/Belgium-bans-neo-Nazi-Eurovision-singer.html "Belgium bans 'neo-Nazi' Eurovision singer"], 21 Feb 2003, The Telegraph</ref> Collier vigorously denied the claims, and later that year after an investigation it was concluded that the accusations were exaggerated and based on outdated information.

==Track listing==
#"Sanomi" (Eurovision Edit)
#"Get Reel"

== Charts ==
{| class="wikitable"
!align="left"|Chart (2003)
!align="left"|Peak position
|-
{{singlechart|Belgium (Flanders)|3|artist=Urban Trad|song=Sanomi}}
|-
{{singlechart|Belgium (Wallonia)|3|artist=Urban Trad|song=Sanomi}}
|-
|}

==External links==
* [http://www.eurovision.tv/page/history/by-year/contest?event=217 Official Eurovision Song Contest site, history by year, 2003.]
* [http://www.diggiloo.net/?2003be Detailed info and lyrics, The Diggiloo Thrush, "Sanomi".]

==References==
{{Reflist}}


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