Norway: End of MGP for KEiiNO?

Norway’s national final for Eurovision 2024, MGP, concluded on Saturday night, with Gåte and the song, “Ulveham” as winners. Among the candidates was the group KEiiNO, who participated for the third time in the MGP, already having a victory and representing the country at Eurovision 2019.

Shortly after the end of MGP, the group spoke to Dagblabet, revealing that this was their last entry in the Melodi Grand Prix.

“We proved that we can give Europe what it wants and we finally won the judges’ votes! Unfortunately we didn’t make it this time. It was our best performance and we will be touring soon. MGP We’ll draw a line here.”

KEiiNO to Dagbladet:
We’ve shown that we can give Europe what they want, and we finally won the jury votes! Sadly it didn’t work out this time. It was our best performance and we’ll be having a tour soon. MGP? We’ll set a line here.

— Eurovision Norway (@euroviNOR) February 3, 2024

Who are KEiiNO? 

KEiiNO is a Norwegian group consisting of Sami rapper Fred Buljo and singers Alexandra Rotan and Tom Hugo. The group was formed in late 2018 in preparation for their participation in the Melodi Grand Prix 2019, which they won and thus were selected to represent Norway with the song “Spirit in the Sky” at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest, finishing in sixth place, even though they were first in the televoting results.

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On January 11, 2021, it was announced that KEiiNO will participate in the Melodi Grand Prix 2021 final with the default song ”  Monument“. The song was released at midnight on 15 January 2021 with the group’s first performance of the song during the first show of Melodi Grand Prix 2021 on 16 January 2021. The song made it to the top four in the final on 20 February 2021, eventually going gold duel, where they lost to Tix’s “Fallen Angel”.

This year, with the song “Damdiggida“, they won the second place in MGP 2024, even scoring in the first place in the score of the critics.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the developments regarding Norway’s participation in Eurovision 2024, in Malmö!