The artist who will represent France at Eurovision 2023 is already known. It is about La Zarra from Quebec who will fly to Liverpool to participate in the final of the international telehook on May 13, as France Télévisions revealed this Thursday. We do not know, for the moment, what title he will sing to defend the tricolor flag.
This time, without preselection. Whereas, for several years, the French candidate designation was almost always the subject of a televised contest during which viewers were asked to vote, La Zarra was chosen internally.
It must be said that this system was not successful in the delegation last year. Alvan & Ahez, the group chosen at the end of the hookup Eurovision France: you decidehe had finished 24th in the final – the penultimate place – on May 14 in Turin.
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Since 2019, the only candidate who has not been subject to public selection is Tom Leeb, in 2020 – this edition of the international competition was finally canceled due to the Covid pandemic.
This 2022 edition was marked by the victory of Ukraine with the song Stephanie of the Kalush Orchestra group, in the middle of the Russian offensive. If the tradition is for the winning country to host the competition the following year, the war defeated the will of the organizers. The latter fell to the United Kingdom, which came second in 2022 with Sam Ryder and his song astronaut.
Source: BFM TV
