Summer Olympics News » Paralympics http://summerolympicsnews.com Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:52:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 2008 Summer Olympics Theme Song http://summerolympicsnews.com/index.php/20080414-2008-summer-olympics-theme-song/ http://summerolympicsnews.com/index.php/20080414-2008-summer-olympics-theme-song/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:52:58 +0000 George Manty http://summerolympicsnews.com/index.php/20080414-2008-summer-olympics-theme-song/ March 10th was the deadline for submitting a song to be used as the theme song for the 2008 Biejing Summer Olympics. Over 50,000 songs have been submitted. They are looking for 25 songs for the main Summer Olympic Games, and 10 songs for the Paralympics games.

“Chris Babida” was already named as the theme song for the the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay, and “I am a Star” by Emil Chau was named as the song to be played for the Olympic volunteers. One song in particular has been getting A LOT of attention, Giorgio Moroder and Kong Xiangdong’s “Forever Friends”. Moroder has already written two Olympic theme song, this would be his third to make it in the Olympics.

Here is a nice rendition of the song by CoCo Lee:

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