I Can

Performed by Brian Harvey

Written by Connor Reeves and Grant Mitchell

Brian Harvey started his musical career as one fourth of the hugely successful pop band East 17 in 1992. Taking their name from the area of London in which they lived East 17 were born and in August of 1992 their first single “House Of Love” was released and went straight into the top ten. From then on a succession of 17 other singles and six albums followed including the million selling single “Stay Another Day” which hit the Christmas number one spot in 1994 and stayed in the charts for 16 weeks.

Tony left the band in 1997 but Brian, Terry and John continued to release songs and still perform around the world to this day. Brian has kept the profile up by appearing on TV shows like I’m a Celebrity in 2004 and had a much publicised car accident in 2005 that nearly took his life. 2007 will be the band's 15th year so they will be performing a greatest hits show throughout the UK and are looking at releasing new material to their army of adoring fans who are a little older but have not lost any of their passion.

Brian says he was ‘thrilled’ to be asked to perform on Making Your Mind Up and his East 17 band mates are supporting him all the way, “they will all be voting for me on the night!” Some people might think Eurovision is a world away from Brian’s image of an east end lad but he says: “There is something about the scale of this competition which grabs people’s imagination. It’s like a national treasure and I am very excited to be a part of it.” He remembers Eurovision from his younger days recalling the moment the Bucks Fizz girls had their skirts ripped off. ”I got very embarrassed and left the room, I didn't want my parents to catch me watching it.”

Hoping to fly the flag for his country, Brian says he will just give it his best shot on the night. So will we be seeing a performance anything like the monster rockers Lordi who won Eurovision last year?Brian says: “We’re spookily similar...... no only joking :) we are nothing alike.”

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