France: La Zarra selected for Eurovision 2023
-
France has decided internally to select the female artist La Zarra to fly the French flag at Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool this May.
One more piece of the puzzle of the Eurovision 2023 hopeful has been determined as France today announced La Zarra as the nation's representative in Liverpool for the 67th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.
During a press conference held in the France Télévisions headquarters in Paris La Zarra was confirmed as the French representative at Eurovision 2023. Talking about France's choice for this year's contest the French Head of Delegation, Alexandra Redde-Amiel, stated:
“I am very proud to have the chance to perform my song in front of millions of viewers around the world. I am a great admirer of the most beautiful French voices such as Edith Piaf, Barbara, Dalida, but also Céline Dion, and I am so excited to make all Europeans discover my song which I hope will become theirs.
I am very honored to represent France at Eurovision, the most iconic song contest in the world.”
And went on saying about La Zarra:
“From our first meeting, La Zarra won us over! What an honour to welcome this great artist in the Eurovision family!
Mysterious, inspiring, charismatic, La Zarra is a woman and a modern artist with a chic French signature! A voice that transports us through time by making us travel to different eras. From Barbara through Brel or Dalida to Marylin Monroe, La Zarra is an iconic artist who will carry the colors of France in Liverpool in May 2023 during the largest song contest in the world.”
The French song La Zarra will be performing in the Grand final of Eurovision 2023 will be released in a future date.
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.
Check out her debut single in the music video of “Tu t’en iras”:
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: Eurovision.tv
Image: Eurovision France
AUTHORS
-
Angelos D.
Home 
About 
Contact 
Box 
Latest News 
Eurovision 2021 
Top Rated 
