Australia’s 2024 Eurovision entry, Electrical Fields, won’t be among the many nations competing on this weekend’s track contest grand closing in Malmö, Sweden.
The group’s efficiency of One Mikali (One Blood) through the first semi-final on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST) wasn’t sufficient to get them by.
That is regardless of a singular act that introduced the Yankunytjatjara language and a standard yidaki instrument to the Eurovision stage for the primary time.
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This implies within the yr marking a decade of Australian Eurovision participation, we can’t formally have a performer within the grand closing for the primary time since 2021.
However we may nonetheless see an Aussie win the track contest.
Sydney teen Vasiliki Silia Kapsis, higher referred to as Silia, is representing Cyprus on this yr’s competitors and is by to the grand closing.
The Australian-Cypriot singer, dancer and actress certified for the following step of the competition after her efficiency of Liar through the first semi-final on Tuesday.
“I actually hope I make it into the ultimate and if I do this, I feel we may get it,” she advised Eurovision World forward of opening the present for the primary semi-final.
“I’m manifesting it!”
Kapsis is the second Aussie in a row to characterize Cyprus on the track contest after 25-year-old Sydney singer Andrew Lambrou took to the stage in 2023.
At simply 17 years of age, the teenager is the youngest competitor on this yr’s Eurovision and among the many youngest in its historical past, significantly after the minimal age of 16 was launched again in 1990.
Kapsis revealed in a current interview that the track’s producer received in contact along with her mum after seeing her singing on Instagram.
“I adopted Dimitris Kontopoulos, the producer of Liar, on Instagram, and he noticed my stuff together with movies of me singing,” she advised the publication.
“So, he had a dialog with my mom first the place he requested her if I may converse Greek and if I used to be of Cypriot descent, which she confirmed.
“We ended up going to Greece on holidays… We go yearly and he invited us to his studio. That is the place we recorded the track.”
Kapsis, who has carried out with the Australian Youth Firm, solely later discovered the only was going for use for Eurovision, when her mum received a name about 1am.
“Because of the time distinction, I used to be about to go to mattress when my mum is available in my room saying ‘Silia! Guess what?’ I used to be shocked as a result of it was late however that is when she advised me I might go to Eurovision and characterize Cyprus,” she recalled.
“Let me let you know, I could not sleep that evening. I referred to as my associates, my household group chat … It was a lift of power, I actually could not go to mattress.”
Australia was first included within the in style worldwide track contest again in 2014, when Jessica Mauboy took to the stage as a half-time act through the second semi-final.
The competition was being held in Copenhagen, Denmark, and it is understood our particular inclusion that yr was a nod to Australian-born Princess Mary.
The singer was such an enormous hit that from the next yr, the Aussies had been formally invited to participate – initially as a one-off.
Australia grew to become solely the second nation exterior of Eurasia to participate within the competitors after Morocco, which competed for the one time again in 1980.
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Man Sebastian was the primary to characterize Australia and was given a wild card to go straight by to the Vienna grand closing with Tonight Once more.
From Stockholm in 2016 although, our acts needed to undergo the semi-final course of and qualify for the finals – one thing Dami Im did past efficiently that yr.
Her efficiency of Sound of Silence went on to be topped total runner-up within the worldwide track contest, behind winner Jamala from Ukraine. Im additionally received the Marcel Bezençon Award for composition and the jury vote.
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Isaiah (2017), Kate Miller-Heidke (2019) and Voyager (2023) every completed ninth place of their respective Eurovision grand finals.
Mauboy returned to the stage in 2018 as a competitor in Lisbon along with her hit We Obtained Love, whereas Sheldon Riley represented Australia in Turin again in 2022 with Not The Identical.
They completed twentieth and fifteenth respectively of their grand finals out of 26 acts.
In 2021, musician Montaigne grew to become the primary ever Eurovision entry to compete remotely attributable to COVID-19 journey restrictions, which means she could not make it to Rotterdam.
Sadly the performer, who sang Technicolour, grew to become the primary Aussie act to not make it by to the track contest’s grand closing.
This yr’s Eurovision additionally marks 50 years since ABBA’s win with Waterloo in 1974, when the Swedish pop act beat out Olivia Newton-John (who was competing for UK and completed fourth) on the Brighton contest.
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