Austria: Seven artists still in the race to represent the country in Eurovision 2025!
As we’ve previously informed you, ORF, the Austrian public broadcaster, is currently in the middle of the internal selection, that will decide the country’s representative for Eurovision Song Contest 2025!
According to the latest news of the Austrian newspaper “Kleine Zeitung”, the public broadcaster wants to keep the names of the contestants secret, but a great amount of them have already indicated their participation.
Seven artists remain in the internal selection, based on “Kleine Zeitung”:
- Philip Piller
Philip Piller participated in the TV shows “Starmania” in 2021 and “Die große Chance – Let’s sing and dance”. Born in Bavaria, he lives in Vienna and seeks to win the audience’s heart with a German-language song. This year he is in the final phase with two songs bidding to represent Austria at Eurovision 2025.
- Dominic “Dodo“ Muhrer (Makemakes – Austria Eurovision 2015)
The Makemakes singer from Salzburg, who ended up in the last place in 2015 in Vienna, is now expressing his interest in a second attempt. This time, Dominic “Dodo” Muhrer wants to do it alone, singing in his dialect.
- Johannes Pietsch
Johannes Pietsch is a soprano experienced in TV shows having participated in “Starmania 21”. He spent much of his childhood in Dubai and in an interview he said:
“My first encounter with culture and opera was performing Mozart’s Magic Flute with my grandparents at the Vienna State Opera at the age of eleven. It was an emotional moment when I sang there. My choice of style for Eurovision is obvious.”
- Kayla Kristin
29-year-old Kayla Kristin from Tyrol (also known as Michaela Rimml), recently released her fourth single “Queen of Hearts”, while her previous singles entered the Airplay-Charts in the USA and Australia. Recently, Kayla, with her distinctive “soul” style, appeared in the Jackson 3’s program at the Circus Krone in Munich.
- Nnoa
Christian Kerschner, known as Nnoa, is a graduate of the Mannheim Pop Academy and sings for the music project DelaDap. She took part in the Austrian national final in 2012. She describes her style as R’n’B-inspired pop and recently released ‘UFO’, which she describes as a “euphoria anthem”. Also, last year she was in the internal selection of the ORF to represent Austria.
In detail, ORF seems to be in the final phase of the internal selection, in which, they will select their representative among eight (8) submitted songs.
The decision on who will represent Austria at the ESC rests in the hands of ORF’s head of programming, Stefanie Groiss-Horowitz, and the decision of the Austrian jury and international fan clubs will also be taken into account.
Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the Austrian participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, in Basel!
Source: kleinezeitung.at
