Ireland: Janet Grogan releases her entry “Ashes of Yesterday” for the 'Eurosong 2022' selection

Tuesday, 18 January 2022

• The third competing entry of the Irish national selection for Eurovision has been released, as Janet Grogan presented her song  “Ashes of Yesterday”.

  The third entry that will be competing in the Irish national selection for Eurovision 2022 has gone public, with the song by Janet Grogan presented during the radio show  Ryan Tubridy Show on RTÉ Radio 1.

  For the next Eurovision RTE has opted for a televised national final in order to select the Irish ESC 2022 hopeful, marking the country's return to a national selection since 2015. From 320 submitted songs a special panel of experts shorlisted six acts that will compete for the right to represent Ireland.

  The six contestants will compete in a special edition of The Late Late Show on February 4. The outcome of the Irish selection for Turin will be determined by public voting, a national jury and for the first time  an international jury.

  The third of the entries was released today with the rest three to follow up to January 21. 

   

  Janet Grogan - “Ashes of Yesterday”

  Irish singer Janet Grogan comes from Dublin. She studied popular music in BCFE which was followed by studies of Pop Music Design at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg in Mannheim, Germany.

  Grogan became known as the vocalist of Alles kann besser werden by Xavier Naidoo, which charted in Germany(No. 6, 33 weeks), Austria (No. 16, 26 weeks) and Switzerland (No. 28, 26 weeks). She composed the track with Milan Martelli, Matthew Tasa and Xavier Naidoo.
  

  She took part in 13th season of The X-Factor (UK), reaching the Judges' houses phase as part of Sharon Osbourne's Team. Janet is not stranger to the Eurovision community as she has contributed in past Irish participations. Namely,  she accompanied Nicky Byrne in 2016 and Ryan O’ Shaughnessy in 2018 as a backing vocalist.

  In 2021, Grogan took part as a contestant on the RTÉ One singing gameshow, Last Singer Standing. She was the last player to qualify for the grand finale. In the final, she performed Whitney Houston's 'I Want to Dance with Somebody'. She finished in sixth place

  Her entry for the Irish selection 'Ashes fo Yesterday', has been composed by Aidan O Connor, John Emil and Sandra Wikström.

   

  Ireland in Eurovision

  Ireland is a country of records when it comes to the Eurovison Song Contest. It has participated 54 times since making its debut at the 1965 contest in Naples and has won the competition 7 times, more than any other country. (1970, 1980, 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996). It is the only country that has won the contest three successive years (1992, 1993, 1994) while Dublin is the only city to have hosted the event two consecutive years. (1994,1995).

  During the decade of 90’s the country had a row of 4 vicotries in a 5 year time  (1993, 1994, 1995 and 1997) and Dublin became host city three times.Irish act Johnny Logan is the only one to have won the contest twice (1980, 1987).

  In 2018 the country selected internally  Ryan O’Shaughnessy to represent the country with his song Together, which finished 16th in the grand final, marking the country's first qualification to the final since 2013. In 2019 internally selected  Sarah McTernan represented the country with her entry “22” which failed to qualify to the grand final.

  Lesley Roy was selected to represent the nation in Rotterdam for Eurovision 2020 with the song "Story of my life" but never reached the stage as the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic. Lesley was reinvited for the 2021 edition in Rotterdam where she performed "Maps" which sadly finished in the last place of the 1st Semi Final. 

   

  News Source: RTE

   Image: Janet Grogan FB