Swede Loreen won Eurovision 2023, held in the UK on Saturday 13 May, with her song Tattoo. She is the first woman to win the competition twice.
[Mis à jour le 14 mai 2023 à 12h16] “Surreal”, “wonderful”: With these words, the big winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, Swede Loreen, reacted to her coronation on Saturday evening, May 13th, as the announcement shows BBC. By winning a total of 583 points from the jury and the audience with his title TattooAt the last moment, the candidate from Sweden overtook Finland (526 points) and Israel (362 points), which ended up on the second and third step of the podium respectively.
A doubly symbolic victory for Loreen. Previously the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, Loreen becomes the second person in history to win the competition twice. Until then, only Australian singer Johnny Logan, representing Ireland, had managed this feat in the 1980s. The Swede was also the first woman to do a double at the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday evening. Next year Sweden will therefore host Eurovision 2024, a year that also symbolically marks the 50th anniversary of ABBA’s victory. The mythical group won with the song in Brighton, UK in 1974 Waterloo.
Loreen, who was the bookmakers’ favorite for this 2023 edition, could well break the Irish record for years to come. When a journalist asked her whether an artist’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest should be limited to two, the singer actually replied: “I don’t know, I could come back another time,” she says BBC. Below is Loreen’s winning performance at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023.
Lorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui, better known by the simple name Loreen, was born on October 16, 1983 in Stockholm, Sweden to Moroccan parents. She made her name as a singer, dancer, pianist and producer with her debut in the Swedish version of Nouvelle Star in 2004, then entered the Eurovision Song Contest in 2012, winning the song in Baku, Azerbaijan euphoria. A performance that will be renewed in 2023.
On the French side La Zarra with his song Apparently, has to settle for 16th place in the table. There were 37 candidate countries starting this 2023 vintage, but 26 were able to perform in Saturday’s grand final after qualifying for the semi-finals (or automatically for the Big Five, the biggest funders of the Eurovision Song Contest) . including France).
