ITALY 🇮🇹
The iconic trio “Il Volo” returns with another powerful operatic pop ballad “Sonreirás”. The band consisting of baritone Gianluca Ginoble, and tenors, Piero Barone, and Ignazio Boschetto are in the middle of their successful worldwide #Musicatour, landing these days in Mexico, so don’t you miss them playing live in case you’re in the area. Earlier this year, the band participate in the famous Sanremo Festival for the second time and finished 3rd singing “”Musica che resta””.
SWITZERLAND 🇨🇭
Sebastiano Paù-Lessi, is a Swiss singer, fiddler, and attorney who represented his country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He performed the song “Hunter of Stars” in the final on 10 May 2014, finishing 13th with 64 points. Sebalter was born in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino. Prior to Eurovision he worked as a business lawyer, putting his law career on hold to focus on his music career.
SPAIN 🇪🇸
Bárbara Reyzábal González-Aller, known professionally as Barei, is a Spanish singer and songwriter. She represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song “Say Yay!”.
María Laura Corradini Falomir, popularly known as Chenoa, is an Argentine-Spanish female music artist who became successful after appearing on the TV contest Operación Triunfo. Her music style could be described as pop. Most of her music is in Spanish, although a few tracks on some albums were recorded in English. Although her albums are not readily available in the U.S. record shelves as they are in Spain and Latin America, they can be found on the Internet. She has sold more than 1,000,000 records since 2002.
SLOVENIA 🇸🇮
zalagasper (formerly Zala Kralj & Gašper Šantl) is a Slovenian musical duo from Maribor consisting of vocalist Zala Kralj and multi-instrumentalist Gašper Šantl. The duo represented Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with the song “Sebi”, finishing 15th [a] (out of 26 entrants) in the final. The duo formed in 2018, after Kralj had begun performing vocals on some songs written and produced by Šantl. Initially, Kralj was only credited as a featured artist. They released the singles “Valovi”, “Baloni”, and “S teboi” in 2018, before releasing their debut extended play Štiri in February 2019.
ITALY 🇮🇹
Emmanuela “Emma” Marrone, sometimes known as simply Emma, is an Italian pop singer. After working with several bands, she won the Italian talent show Amici di Maria De Filippi in March 2010, and signed a contract with record label Universal Music. On 18 February 2012, she won first place at the annual televised Sanremo Music Festival 2012 with her song “Non è l’inferno”. She has recorded one EP, four albums and 15 singles, and has received two Multiplatinum, 14 Platinum discs and two Gold discs. So far[when?] she has sold more than 1,200,000 singles and discs. Since 2012, she has publicly performed on the guitar. In 2013 and 2015, Marrone was selected as the artistic director of one of the teams in Amici di Maria De Filippi. She represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark with the song “La mia città”, and finished 21st.
UKRAINE 🇺🇦
MÉLOVIN, is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter. He first came to prominence after winning season six of X-Factor Ukraine. He represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal, with the song “Under the Ladder”.
AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺
This teen from Melbourne has been singing and writing music since the age of 11, performing for audiences large and small. Leea had a chat with Michael about being chosen for Eurovision Australia Decides and how she found out about the competition. They discuss the story behind her debut single ‘Set Me Free’ and how close she was to missing out on having it chosen for the Gold Coast.
