France: La Zarra's Eurovision 2023 entry “Évidemment” will premiere on February 19

• The song that the French Eurovision 2023 representative, La Zarra,  will be performing in Liverpool will go public on February 19 with the title “Évidemment”.

  Save the date: On February 19, 20:30 CET the French Eurovision 2023 representative, La Zarra, will be premiering “Évidemment” (“Obviously”) for Liverpool. 

   

   

   

  The announcement was made by La Zarra herself at -Victoires de la Musique- music awards as she was there to present one of the awards. Is already known that the same team that produced her first single “Tu t’en iras” produced “Évidemment” as well.

  A few words for La Zarra

  La Zarra, stage name of Fatima Zahra Hafdi, is a Canadian singer who was born to a Moroccan family in Canada. She is known to have grown up near the city of Longueuil (Quebec). 

  In 2016, La Zarra became known for an artistic collaboration with Niro on the title 'Printemps blanc'. She dropped her own debut solo single “Tu t’en iras” (You’ll go away) in 2021. Later in the year she was nominated at the NRJ Music Awards 2021, as Francophone revelation of the year.

   

  France in Eurovision 

  France is  one of the seven countries that had its first participation back in 1956. Since then the country has won the contest 5 times. Last time was in 1977, with Marie Myriam and her song L’oiseau et l’enfant. The last two years, however,  seems to be an increasing interest for the contest .

  Destination Eurovision  was used for the first time as the country’s national selection format in 2018, including two recorded semi final shows and a live grand final. 2018 was the first time France held a nationa final since 2014. National final 2018 winners were the duo Madame Monsieur who represented France in Lisbon with their entry “Mercy” which finished 13th.

  In 2019 Bilal Hassani won the second edition of Destination Eurovision 2019 and defended the French colours in Tel Aviv with his entry Roi which came 16th in the Grand final.After that France Televisions went internal selecting Tom Leeb to represent the country in Rotterdam last May. Unfortunately his ESC 2020 journey never took place as the covid-19 pandemic caused the cancellation of this year's edition. 

  In 2021 Barbara Pravi won the national final with her song 'Voila' and  defended the French colors in Rotterdam performing in the Grand final on May 22, 2021. The French hopeful almost won the competition finishing 2nd behind Italy's Maneskin with 499 points i the overall score.

  Last year, Alvan & Ahez won the national final and represented the nation with their song 'Fulenn' which came 24th in the final with a overall score of 17 points. 

   

  News Source: EBU

  Image: EUROVISION FRANCE FB

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Melina F.
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