2023-05-14 10:00:00
AFP
Sweden wins Eurovision thanks to Loreen and equals the Irish record
Sweden, represented by singer Loreen, won the Eurovision Song Contest for the seventh time on Saturday evening, equaling Ireland’s record, in the final hosted on behalf of Ukraine by the United Kingdom, in Liverpool. With her title “Tattoo”, Loreen, already crowned in 2012, is the second artist to win Eurovision twice following Johnny Logan for Ireland in the 1980s, and the first woman to achieve the double. Surrealist “, “wonderful” reacted the singer “totally overwhelmed”. She did not rule out a new participation. “It’s all regarding creativity,” she told a news conference. Sweden’s biggest newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, called her victory on Sunday an “incredible feat.” few others,” the headline continues, describing her as “approachable,” “with a look and voice impossible to ignore.” the Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden in 2024, the year of the fiftieth anniversary of Abba’s victory with “Waterloo”. Twenty-six countries were in competition for the final of the 67th edition of the contest. – “Gesture of disappointment” – Finland, with singer Käärijä, came in second, Israel in third and France, represented by Quebecer La Zarra, in 16th place. The singer denied having given the middle finger, explaining having made a “gesture of disappointment that we use between friends”, according to the site of the French newspaper 20 Minutes. France has not won since 1977 with Marie Myriam. Loreen succeeds the Ukrainians of the Kalush Orchestra, who triumphed last year with “Stefania”, a song mixing hip-hop and traditional Ukrainian music. Eurovision took place in the United Kingdom, which came second last year, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This year was represented by the electro duo Tvorchi, who finished sixth with “Heart of Steel”, a song inspired by the resistance during a month-long siege at the Azovstal factory in Mariupol and received a standing ovation from the public. A few minutes following their performance on stage, Tvorchi posted on Instagram that their hometown was attacked by Moscow. Ternopil “was bombarded by Russia as we sang on the Eurovision stage regarding our strong hearts, our indomitability and our will,” they wrote. “Europe, united once morest evil for peace”, they added. Several songs evoked, each in their own way, the war. As for Switzerland, the young singer Remo Forrer launched a message of peace in a serious tone with “Watergun”. unconditional love. The Swede was the favorite of the bookmakers. However, this new participation was anything but obvious for her, until she listened to this song.”When I heard +Tattoo+, even before someone told me regarding Melodifestivalen (the Swedish selection that determines the contribution at Eurovision), I felt a pleasure mixed with terror. I understood that something was happening, “she confided to the daily Dagens Nyheter. And she then bowed to an iron discipline to perform the grandiloquent number one. With her real name Lorine Talhaoui, the 39-year-old artist was born in Sweden to parents of Moroccan Berber origin. The eldest of six children, she grew up in the suburbs of Stockholm, where she lives today. One of his sisters, Markiz Tainton, is a cook and regularly appears on television. “I have nomadic origins, I am Berber, but I am also Swedish, I want my cheese grater and people to call me before arriving at my house”, added the singer, to this newspaper, while her origins have been repeatedly mocked by the far right. Finland was on a completely different note with singer Käärijä’s frenetic “Cha Cha Cha” and his fluorescent green puffy bolero. Like last year, Russia was excluded from the competition. This edition was organized in Liverpool but in the name of Ukraine, whose colors, blue and yellow, were everywhere in the city of the Beatles. This edition of Eurovision, “it’s their most than ours,” Jenny Birchett, a 70-year-old Briton, dressed in the colors of Ukraine, told AFP. “When I arrived yesterday” in Liverpool, “I cried” both the blue and the yellow are everywhere in the city, explained Lana Bilko, a Ukrainian who has lived for a long time in the United Kingdom. spe-ctx-cbw-po/chv
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