"By the hand of the father" by Dimtri Kortnev

Dimtri Kortnev is one of the megasellers in Russia but he never succeeded in having a career in Europe. He tried though by releasing the album "By the hand of the father", a kind of Biggest Hits compilation of his Russian successes translated into English. I'm sorry to say that his English is very poor and his songs don't appeal to Western European listeners.
Maybe we're spoiled.

"By the hand of the father" by Dimtri Kortnev

"Reason should direct" by Francesco Lotoro

The career move of Francesco Lotoro is a bit ackward. Just like James Blunt, he left his country (being Italy) after just one hit record ("Bugiardo") and went to live in the United States. He never made a decent songs since then. Obviously he must have made a lot of money with this huge success, I guess.
On this album there's no second "Bugiardo", so I'm afraid Lotoro will be forgotten before the end of the year.

"Reason should direct" by Francesco Lotoro

"See every problem as a nail" by Nabira

Nabira Garmin al-Gun was born in Iran (Yezd, dec. 19th 1987) but moved with her parents to London when she was only 4. She started singing at the age of 17 and recorded a first demo at 19. After three minor hits ("Yesterday", "Is it over?" and "Get up") she recorded this album "See every problem as a nail" and all of a sudden she's all over the pop magazines. It seems a star is born without entering any TV-show. How long will she be everybody's darling? Maybe her new single "Within seconds" will prove she's here to stay.

"See every problem as a nail" by Nabira