OGAE Poll 2023: The results of Switzerland!

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The announcement of the OGAE fan club rankings continues, with the 6th country to announce its results being Switzerland.

The 77 members of OGAE Switzerland voted as follows:

  • 12 points to France
  • 10 points to Sweden
  • 8 points to Finland
  • 7 points to Austria
  • 6 points to Norway
  • 5 points to Italy
  • 4 points to United Kingdom
  • 3 points to Czechia
  • 2 points to Slovenia
  • 1 point to Moldova

The added up results after the votes of the six fan clubs are as follows:

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Source: OGAE International

Switzerland: Remo Forrer sings the Israeli entry “Unicorn”!

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The Swiss representative in Eurovision 2023, Remo Forrer, continues the covers of this year’s contest entries. This time and by popular demand, he performs “Unicorn”, Noa Kirel’s song, live on TikTok.

@remoforrer.ch Antwort auf @Yuval K | יובל ק @Noa Kirel #eurovision #fy #foryou #fyp #viral #esc #noakirel #unicorn #cover #switzerland #piano #remoforrer ♬ Originalton – remoforrer

Below you can learn all the details about Remo Forrer’s performance in Liverpool:

Switzerland: Remo Forrer will be joined by four dancers on stage, in Liverpool!

Εnjoy our reaction video for Switzerland in Eurovision 2023:

Will Remo Forrer be able to continue the good course of the country in the song contest? Tell us in the comments down bellow!

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Switzerland: Remo Forrer will be joined by four dancers on stage, in Liverpool!

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More details of the Swiss stage performance in Liverpool have been revealed, by the Swiss representative himself, Remo Forrer, in a post on his social media.

We already know that Switzerland will have Sacha Jean-Baptiste as the creative director of Remo’s staging performance and we now know who the four dancers that will be joining him on stage for his “Watergun” performanve will be.

The four dancers that will be joining Remo on stage in Liverpool this year will be (from left to right):

  • Lovisa Bengtsson: Lovisa was one of the Cypriot delegation dancers in 2018, joining Eleni Foureira on stage for “Fuego“.
  • Marco Wihlborg: One of the dancers of Alvaro Estrella in his last year’s Melodifestivalen entry “Suave“.
  • Ellinea Siambalis: The 18-year-old Ellinea, who has Greek roots, was a dancer in the following three numbers of this year’s Melodifestivalen, Kiana‘s “Where Did You Go“, Rejhan‘s “Haunted” and Mariette‘s “One Day“.
  • Kenny Lantz: Kenny was one of the Melodifestivalen in-house dancers this year and was also part of the Cypriot performance in 2019, joining Tamta on stage for the song “Replay“.

 

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Who is Remo Forrer?

Remo Forrer was born in 2001 in a small town called Hemberg SG. He started playing the flute from an early age, then he switched to the accordion, and then he ended up at the piano, which is still his favorite musical instrument to this day. In addition, he took voice lessons at a music school. In 2017, he was nominated for the talent show of the central Switzerland, where he received the award of Photographers Choice for the best stage performance. One year later, he won the competition “Sing dein Ding” with an acapella group and he was allowed to appear at the Acapella Festival in Pfaffikon SZ. In 2020, he won The Voice of Switzerland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8-Sbc_GZMc

You can watch the reaction of the editors of Eurovisionfun, reacting and commenting on the Swiss entry for Eurovision 2023 below:

Will Remo Forrer be able to continue the good course of the country in the song contest? Tell us in the comments down bellow!

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Switzerland: Watch Remo Forrer’s first live performance of Watergun!

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Remo Forrer, Switzerland‘s representative in Eurovision 2023, performed Watergun live for the first time on the country’s Italian-language public television!

The young artist impressed with his vocals accompanied by live music. You can watch his performance below:

Switzerland is competing in the 8th position of the first semi-final on the 9th of May. Remo Forrer hopes that he will be able to continue his country’s qualifying streak, something that the betting odds approve of, having Switzerland in eighth place to qualify for the Grand Final!

What did you think of Remo Forrer’s first live performance? Tell us in the comments!

Eurovision 2023: Austria, Germany, and Switzerland will broadcast a common program before and after the live shows!

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The three German-speaking countries, Austria, Germany and Switzerland, will broadcast a common program before and after the Semi-finals and the Final of Eurovision 2023!

The shows called «ESC – Der Countdown» (20:15 CET) and «ESC – Die Aftershow» (0:45 CET) will be broadcasted live by the three Public Broadcasters ( ORF 1, Das Erste, SRF 1) from the Tate Museum in Liverpool. The shows will be hosted by famous presenter and actress Barbara Schöneberger.

During the shows, former Eurovision artists and fans from all three countries will take part, as well as the 2023 representatives of Austria (Teya & Salena), Germany (Lord of the Lost) and Switzerland (Remo Forrer).

Switzerland will take part in the first Semi-Final, Austria in the second, while Germany is automatically qualified to the Grand Final since it’s part of the “Big 5”. Below you can watch our interview with Pi, the guitarist of Lord of the Lost who will represent Germany this year.

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Source: ORF 

Eurovision 2023: Watch tonight our poll results for the two semi-finals!

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Today is the first station of our Poll, since after the your voting, the results follow, which will be announced tonight through a live premiere on the Douze Points YouTube channel.

More than 8,200 individual votes were submitted in the two semi-finals and now it’s time to announce the 20 countries that will advance to the grand final. For about 10 days you voted for your top ten countries in each semi-final. As in Eurovision, also in our simulation 100% of the result was determined based on your own vote, since now only the public votes count in the semi-finals.

Tonight at 20:00 CET, you will be able to watch through the video below the ten countries that will qualify from the first semi-final.

Immediately afterwards, at 20:05 CET, you will be able to see the results of the second semi-final in the video below.

The recap and the start of the voting for the Grand Final follows, where 50% of the result will be determined based on your own voting and the rest 50% by the authors of Eurovisionfun.
Until then you can recall the entries vying for qualification below:

Which countries do you think will qualify?

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Eurovision 2023: The running order of the semifinals has been revealed!

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With a month and a half left for the first semifinal of Eurovision 2023 on May 9, the EBU today announced the order of appearance of the songs in the semifinals.

The running order was determined by the EBU in collaboration with the British organizers, taking into account where each country was drawn to appear (first or second half), but also in such a way that the show is more interesting.

So, through the official Eurovision channel on YouTube, the official running order of the songs in the semifinals of this year’s contest was announced a few minutes ago.

Running Order

First Semifinal – May 9

  1. Norway
  2. Malta
  3. Serbia
  4. Latvia
  5. Portugal
  6. Ireland
  7. Croatia
  8. Switzerland
  9. Israel
  10. Moldova
  11. Sweden
  12. Azerbaijan
  13. Czechia
  14. Netherlands
  15. Finland

Second Semifinal – May 11

  1. Denmark
  2. Armenia
  3. Romania
  4. Estonia
  5. Belgium
  6. Cyprus
  7. Iceland
  8. Greece
  9. Poland
  10. Slovenia
  11. Georgia
  12. San Marino
  13. Austria
  14. Albania
  15. Lithuania
  16. Australia

The analyzes of the fans and not only for a few minutes have been on fire, since the theories based on the prehistory of the countries in the contest, are a first picture of how passable is the qualification to the final or not. In other words, it’s time to make our predictions about who will advance to the final and who are the favorites to say goodbye to Liverpool early…

Turin will host the 67th Eurovision Song Contest from May 9th to 13th at the Liverpool Arena. The motto of this year’s event, as chosen by the organizers is “The Sound of Beauty”.

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Switzerland: Sacha Jean-Baptiste confirmed as creative director for Remo Forrer!

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In a post on the official Instagram account of Eurovision, Remo Forrer, the representative of Switzerland in Eurovision 2023 gave an update on his preparations for the contest.

He revealed that he is currently in Stockholm, rehearsing for his performance in the first semi-final. The director will be a known name in the Eurovision world, Sacha Jean- Baptiste, having directed multiple entries throughout the years.

This will be the fourth consecutive year that Baptiste will direct a Swiss entry, having directed all entries since 2019 (apart from 2020 when the contest was cancelled), with all of them qualifying to the Grand final.

The title of the Swiss entry this year is “Watergun” and you can watch the official video clip below

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Switzerland: Listen here “Watergun” of Remo Forrer for Eurovision 2023!

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On 20th of February, it became known from the Swiss Public Broadcaster SRF that Remo Forrer will represent Switzerland in Eurovision 2023 (read the article here).

The time has come for the young artist to reveal his song as it was scheduled today, in 7th of March. The premiere took place through the official YouTube channel of Eurovision.

With his song “Watergun” the 22 year old artist will make his dream come true as he mentioned when it was announced to him that he would represent the country in this year’s song contest.

You can watch the video clip here:

Who is Remo Forrer?

Remo Forrer was born in 2001 in a small town called Hemberg SG. He started playing the flute from an early age, then he switched to the accordion, and then he ended up at the piano, which is still his favorite musical instrument to this day. In addition, he took voice lessons at a music school. In 2017, he was nominated for the talent show of the central Switzerland, where he received the award of Photographers Choice for the best stage performance. One year later, he won the competition “Sing dein Ding” with an acapella group and he was allowed to appear at the Acapella Festival in Pfaffikon SZ. In 2020, he won The Voice of Switzerland.

Switzerland has succeeded since 2019 counting three qualifies in a row and two times being in the top 10 at the Grand Final.

We want to remind you that Switzerland will perform at the second half of the first semi final at 9th of May 2023!

Will Remo Forrer be able to continue the good course of the country in the song contest? Tell us in the comments down bellow!

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Switzerland: Listen now to the new snippet of Remo Forrer’s song for Eurovision 2023!

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An excerpt from Switzerland’s participation was posted on Instagram by this year’s representative Remo Forrer, which included the song and a part from the video clip.

Through his personal account on Instagram, the young artist uploaded the snippet and decided to share a part of his song with the eurofans, which will be officially released on Thursday 7th of March.

Down bellow you can find the post of the artist via his Instagram account:

 

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What do you think about Switzerland’s sample of the track? Are you excited for the whole song?

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