Luxembourg: TALI will represent the Dutchy at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with the song “Fighter”!
Luxembourg joined the Eurovision Song Contest again this year and they will have their representative perform in Malmö Arena in the hopes of winning the contest for the 6th time. Their national final, called Luxembourg Song Contest 2024, just finished and the public has chosen TALI with the song “Fighter” to represent the country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 to be held in Malmö, Sweden!
The show
The Final show was hosted by Désirée Nosbusch, Melody Funck, Raoul Roos and Loïc Juchem and was broadcast live from Rockhal, Luxembourg.
Anne Marie David, French singer who has represented both Luxembourg and France at the Eurovision Song Contest, winning in 1973 and placing third in 1979, opened the show, followed by a “flag parade” style intro where all the contestants entered the stage.
It is worth mentioning that one of the most prominent Greek singers, Vicky Leandros, made an amazing guest appearance at Luxembourg Song Contest 2024, singing “Après toi“. This was the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 1972 performed in French by Vicky, when she represented Luxembourg.
All the contestants performed “Poupée de cire, poupée de son“, the winning entry of Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest 1965, held in Naples.
After the first voting round, all the contestants paid tribute to this year’s host country, Sweden, by singing one of the most iconic Swedish Eurovision entries, ABBA‘s “Waterloo“.
Many eurostars were there as guests, such as Charlotte Perelli, Ruslana, Katrina Leskanich of Katrina and the Waves and Alexander Rybak all performed their winning entries live!
Vicky Leandros also performed “L’amour Est Bleu” acompanied by Alexander Rybak who played his violin!
The voting system
The winner will be decided through a 50-50 split, with 50% coming from the jury’s vote and the remaining 50% from the audience. Specifics include:
- The jury, contributing 50% to the result, comprises representatives from eight countries, with five members from each country.
- The audience voting is open not only to the local audience but also to the international audience, giving everyone a say in who will represent the Grand Duchy at Eurovision 2024.
The songs
The following eight contestants competed in the hopes of getting selected to represent Luxembourg in Malmö:
- Angy & Rafa Ela – “Drop”
- CHAiLD – “Hold On”
- EDSUN – “Finally Alive”
- Joel Marques – “Believer”
- Krick – “Drowning in the rain”
- Naomi Ayé – “Paumée sur terre”
- One Last Time – “Devil in the Detail”
- TALI – “Fighter”
Our take on the eight competing songs
Our rating is on a Eurovision scale, 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3
- Joel Marques – “Believer”
Rating: 10
Joel has a great stage presence, amazing vocals and a song that personally reminds me of Melodifestivalen entries. I could definitely see him represent Luxembourg.
- EDSUN – “Finally Alive”
Rating: 3
The song of EDSUN is kinda funky, but for me it has nothing special. Maybe the choreo and the staging does something, especially when they were stacked on the ground. It is very intuitive, but no more than that. I have to admit that his voice was very good, he was never out of tune, even though he was heavily choreographed.
- Naomi Ayé – “Paumée sur terre”
Rating: 8
Eight. For Naomi‘s voice and for the French lyrics. The song is okay. I could see this represent Luxembourg in Malmö this year.
- Angy & Rafa Ela – “Drop”
Rating: 7
Love the vibe of the song! However since it is a televised show and the image plays an important role, I disagree with their styling. Angy and Rafa stack up their voices on an amazing duet! Nice duet!
- One Last Time – “Devil in the Detail”
Rating: 6
The only group act tonight, with a nice staging, but nothing special song-wise. Let’s see how they will do tonight!
- Krick – “Drowning in the rain”
Rating: 12
I see the winner here (wrote this before the announcement, so in case she wasn’t please bear with me). Amazing vocals, song, stage presence! I can see this doing good at this year’s contest. Would she win though? In my honest opinion, I don’t think so.
- CHAiLD – “Hold On”
Rating: 5
CHAiLD might have been a bit stressed out. His vocals were not good, he kind of lost it at times. Loved his style though. The LED stage projections were great!
- TALI – “Fighter”
Rating: 4
Such a catchy song but TALI doesn’t seem to be doing much, the dancers carry the job. Four, only for the song.
The results
The eight contestants that competed in Luxembourg Song Contest were given the chance to be voted twice by the public, within two voting intervals during the show.
After the first interval, the below three artists were selected to take part in the second voting interval, as the hosts of the show called it, the Super Final of Luxembourg Song Contest:
- Krick – “Drowning in the rain”
- TALI – “Fighter”
- Joel Marques – “Believer”
But let’s have a look on how the jury voting went?
Jury voting 12 points
- United Kingdom: TALI – “Fighter”
- Cyprus: TALI – “Fighter”
- Belgium: TALI – “Fighter”
- Slovenia: TALI – “Fighter”
- Germany: Krick – “Drowning in the rain”
- Portugal: TALI – “Fighter”
- France: TALI – “Fighter”
- Sweden: TALI – “Fighter”
TALI grossed a total of 94 points from the international juries. After the public vote was added, these are the final results that determined the winner and this year’s representative of Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Malmö, Sweden.
The selection of the representative of Luxembourg adds up to the list of selected artists and songs that we will get the chance to watch being performed live later next May in Malmö, Sweden! At the video down below you can watch this year’s representative of Luxembourg, who will get the chance to perform on stage in Malmö this May:
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