Fal Back and Angelic Smile: The artist JJ signs Austria’s first triumph in Eurovision of Drag Queen Barbue Conchita Wurst eleven years ago. The young singer won against another 25 candidates on the stage of Halle Saint-Jacques de Basel, in Switzerland, during the 2025 edition final.
With Wasted lovethat drives the acute soprano between two ballad choirs before completing on the Techno flight, the Alpine country will have taken a risky but paid option: the song obtained 436 points.
“It goes beyond my wildest dreams. It’s crazy,” he said after his victory, the trophy in his hand.
“It surprises people that a man can sing like high,” AFP said at the end of April from Vienna, the 24-year-old Austro-Philippin, during his preparation for competition in the public service of Television Orf.
An amazement became the fascination that the music lover has grown in Dubai used before making his ranges with small papers in Vienna’s opera.
Even if he says that he appreciates the “classical world”, which makes Austria shine beyond its borders and where “everything is very strict”, JJ – Johannes Piettsch of his real name – also wants to have “freedom to vent” and “experiment.”
Between pop and classic
So he looked at a mixture known as the operational pop, an “interdisciplinary approach and transgressing genres” that “enriches thought and promotes creative exchanges,” applauds Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, the rector of the very serious school where JJ still studies Lyric art.
However, on Saturday in its aerial performance, all in black and white, in front of the agreements not always subtle of the Finland proposal or the fun franchise of the Swedes, JJ innova above all as a contractor.
Even if some associate their piece with that of the Swiss artist Nemo, winner last year. And that the classic was heard in Eurovision in the 1950s and gradually melted in other styles with several successes, the Italian group Il Volo had managed to increase in 2015 thirdly.
Guided by Conchita Wurst
His melancholic performance talks about a period of his life in which “he wasted too much love” without receiving it. “When JJ sings, it is as if the watches stop turning,” said Drag Queen Conchita Wurst about her, seeing this “impressive professional”, with whom he recorded a duo, his worthy successor.
The artist had offered his precious professional advice, like singer Louane, a good girlfriend, whose texts in French were studied.
Polyglot singer
Of the vast repertoire of the previous 68 editions of Eurovision, Bird and child Marie Myriam, who earned France her last victory in 1977, remains one of her favorite songs and interprets her happily in the original version.
His gift for languages comes from his education in an international establishment of Emirates, where his Austrian father, a computer scientist, had established his business. It was his that inherited the taste for the classic, Bach and Mozart in mind, while his mother, of the Philippines and Cook, listened to Céline Dion and Whitney Houston.
German, English, Tagalo, Arabic and French: JJ can use its four octaves as it considers it convenient, an asset when the competition also follows massively outside the European continent.
“On stage, everyone has their place,” said the reserved JJ, while homosexual, lesbian and transgender people see their rights returning in countries that have left the competition, regularly accused of being too arciris, such as Hungary. “Not only the LGBT+community”, but all, because “music is a unique language that any human being can speak and understand.”
Source: BFM TV
