Ireland: Lesley Roy's Eurovision 2021 entry to go public in March

Ireland: Lesley Roy's Eurovision 2021 entry to go public in March
Thursday, 28 January 2021

  • The Irish Eurovision 2021 entry to be performed by Lesley Roy in Rotterdam will probably be released in March.

    Back in mid December the Irish boradcaster, RTE, confirmed that Lesley Roy will represent the seven times winning nation in this year's Eurovision. Since then the Irish act had been in full steam preparing her new entry that will represent Ireland in Rotterdam. 

    Via her twitter account the Irish Eurovision 2021 hopeful answering to a fan's question that her song will probably go public in the first or maximum second week of March. The act is anticipating herself the moment she will reveal her ESC song and can't hide her excitement. 

    Lesley

    The 2021 Irish Eurovision entry has been written and composed by Lesley Roy herself along with Lukas Hallgren  (Switzerland 2019 producer), Philip Strand, Deepend and Emelie Eriksson.

    Ireland remains the country with the most victories in the history of the contest, having taken the trophy home seven times. Last year the country was set to be represented at Eurovosion 2020  by Lesley Roy and her entry “Story of My Life”. 

     

    A few words about Lesley Roy

    Lesley Roy (born 1987) is a singer-songwriter from Balbriggan in Dublin, Ireland. She was signed to an independent Irish label and in 2006, licensed to US label, Jive Records. She released her debut album, Unbeautiful in 2008, which was executive produced by Max Martin. Until switching her focus to songwriting, and attracting the attention of Marc Jordan, the manager credited for launching the career of Rihanna and owner of Rebel One Management & Publishing. As a songwriter Roy has experienced international success with releases for artists including Adam Lambert, Miss Montreal, Medina, Jana Kramer, and Marlee Scott.

     

    Ireland in Eurovision 

    Ireland is a country of records when it comes to the Eurovison Song Contest. It participated for the first time in 1965 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 victories 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. In 2019 internally selected  Sarah McTernan represented the country with her entry “22” which failed to qualify to the grand final.