Iceland: Bashar Murad has not decided whether he will take part in Eurovision 2024!
Bashar Murad is, so to speak, the face of the days. The artist of Palestinian origin, who is one of the ten candidates in Iceland’s national final for Eurovision 2024, says in an interview on the country’s public television that he has not decided whether he will participate in the contest, since of course he is the winner of Söngvakeppnin .
The news of Bashar Murad’s participation in Söngvakeppnin, before we had even heard his song, was enough to propel Iceland to the top of the betting table.
Bashar Murad rose to prominence in Iceland after collaborating with Hatari in 2019, right after Eurovision ended that year. In an interview with RUV, Bashar Murad denies the accusations that his participation is essentially a tool of political exploitation, while he answers that he has not yet decided whether he will finally participate in Eurovision 2024, since he is the winner of Söngvakeppnin.
We actually started working on this project a year and a half ago and considered participating in the competition last year (2023). But we decided it would be best to wait another year. So the work on this started in August last year…And who knows what will happen? It also depends on the situation we are in. Things change day by day. I take it one day at a time.
RUV has declared that its participation in Eurovision 2024 is not a given and the decision on this will be made after the end of Söngvakeppnin, in consultation with the winner of course.
Iceland will decide on Eurovision 2024 on March 2. You can listen to Bashar Murad’s Wild West in the video below:
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This is supposed be a song contest all political views should be put aside for one night and let peace and harmony rule
Still Israel should not be part of it, same as Rusia was not part of it. Eurovision have always been political and our votes has never count, we all know this … So this year 2024 is time to do it more political than ever, because a genocide is takeing place in the world and we are siting here and talking bullshit while children and inocent humans are being murdered… Peace does not exist, not in this world at least… peace is a defination of towfaces world and media that is there just for show, when peace really need to be aplied in not the same if the ones geting murdered are from Palestine or arabs
Why does this page talk about Murad like he has already won? Söngvakeppnin hasn’t decided who wins yet…