Australia: Four more "Eurovision: Australia Decides" 2022 contestants unveiled

Australia: Four more
Tuesday, 14 December 2021

  • SBS, Australia's national broadcaster, has revealed four more acts that will be competing in the country's nationl final for Eurovision 2022, 'Eurovision: Australia Decides'. 

    The next Australian ESC hopeful will be selected through the show Eurovision – Australia Decides which is set to take place in Gold Cost on February 26, 2022 and will once again be presented by the comedian Joel Creasey and music buff Myf Warhurst for the third consecutive time. 

    The Australian broadcast had received more than 700 songs for the national final. After shortlisting the songs, the broadcaster is now trying to select the appropriate act for each song. 

    Following the revelation of the first three competing acts and the second set of three candidates of the national final, SBS unveiled three more act that ambition to represent the land down under at Eurovision 2022. Namely those are :

    • Seann Miley Moore
    • Voyager Australia
    • Charley
    • Jude York

     

    Seann Miley Moore 

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    Seann Miley Moore (born 30 October 1992) is an Australian singer from Sydney who participated in Series 12 of The X Factor 2015 as part of the Boys category mentored by Nick Grimshaw. He was eliminated in Week 2 of the live shows, finishing in 10th place. Seann got back on base and participated in the latest The Voice Australia chosing as his mentor Australia's Eurovision 2018 act  Jessica Mauboy.

     

    Voyager

    Voyager Aussie band

    Voyager is a progressive metal band from Perth, Western Australia.The band consists of Daniel Estrin ( vocals, keys) , Simone Dow (guitars), Scott Kay ( guitars) Ashley Doodkoorte (drums) and Alex Canion (bass, vocals)

    The band has released seven full-length albums, five singles, and fourteen video clips and has been active since 1999. Their seventh full-length studio album, Colours in the Sun, was released worldwide on 1 November 2019 on the French American metal record label Season of Mist. 

     

    Charley

    Charley

    Charley is a singer, songwriter from the Gold Coast and curently based in Sydney. She is rather new in the music scene. Her song was written two and a half years ago and was inspired by her heartbreaking break up exprerience. She has release a couple of singles among which "Hard for me" and "Arizona". 

     

     Jude York

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     Jude York is a 22-year-old singer-songwriter who began sharing his song-writing skills and vocals only this year on his socials. He comes from From Toowoomba in regional Queensland. He will be singing his self-penned song 'I won't need to dream'. 

     

    11th contestant wildcard contest

    SBS, Blink TV and TikTok have today announced a national TikTok Wildcard contest to find the eleventh artist to take part in Eurovision – Australia Decides on the Gold Coast in February.

    From today, Australians are encouraged to post a live vocal performance clip, up to one minute long, with the hashtag #EurovisionAustralia to be in the running to become the Eurovision – Australia Decides TikTok Wildcard Artist. Submission deadline expires on January 16, 2022. After that a panel of experts will decide which act will complete the Australian national final line up for Eurovision 2022. 

     

    Australia In Eurovision 

    Australia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest five times since their debut at the 2015 contest in Vienna. Although Australia’s first participation in the 2015 contest was set to be a single time participation, the country was invited to take part in the following years successively. Last year after an agreement with EBU, Australia secured its participation up to 2023.

    The country’s best result in the contest is Dami Im’s 2nd place in 2016. Australia has also finished in the top ten in three of its other appearances in the contest, with Guy Sebastian finishing fifth in 2015, and Isaiah Firebrace finishing ninth in 2017 . In 2019 , Kate Miller Heidke won the first national final to take place in the country and represented the land of Down Under at Tel Aviv with her song “Zero Gravity”. Kate achieved a 9th placing marking the country’s return back in the top 10.

    In 2020 Montaigne  won the country’s 2nd national final in history. Eurovision: Australia Decides 2020, held in Gold Coast , Queensland last February. Her entry “Don’t Break Me” achieved to top the jury voting and came second in the public vote. However due to the covid-19 outbreak the contest was cancelled and Montaigne never had the chance to compete in Rotterdam. 

    Nevertheless, SBS internally selected Montaigne to represent the country in Eurovision 2021 with her song "Technicolour". The Australian hopeful once again wasn't able to travel to Rotterdam because of the ongoing travel restrictions. She competed in the first semi final with her live on tape performance but failed to qualify to the Grand final. 

    News Source: SBS