Ireland: Brooke Scullion releases her entry “That’s Rich” for the 'Eurosong 2022' selection

Ireland: Brooke Scullion releases her entry “That’s Rich” for the 'Eurosong 2022' selection
Wednesday, 19 January 2022

  • The fourth competing entry of the Irish national selection for Eurovision has been released, as Brooke Scullion has premiered her song "That's Rich".

    The fourth entry that will be competing in the Irish national selection for Eurovision 2022 has gone public, with the song by Brooke Scullion 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 fourth of the entries was released today with the rest twoto follow up to January 21. 

     

    Brooke Scullion - "That's Rich"

    Brooke Scullion is a singer from Co Derry, in Northern Ireland, born in 1999. She attended studies at Ulster University Magee campus. Scullion has sung as live support for singers like Nathan Carter. She has also had a starring role in the School of Rock musical at Cookstown’s Burnavon Theatre.

    Rising to fame as a finalist of The Voice UK 2020, Brooke wowed the judges and viewers with her performances on the show, duetting with Ella Eyre and mentored by Grammy award-winning coach and singer Meghan Trainor.

    Her entry for the Irish selection 'That's Rich', has been composed by herself along with Karl Zine and Izzy Warner.

    Brooke said of writing her entry That's Rich, which is inspired by Blondie meets The Gossip: "I was reading Debbie Harry's autobiography and wanted to encapsulate the attitude she portrayed in her life."

     

    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: Brooke Scullion FB