Norway: Pre-qualified finalist Rein Alexander releases his MGP 2021 entry “Eyes Wide Open”

Norway: Pre-qualified finalist Rein Alexander releases his MGP 2021 entry “Eyes Wide Open”
Thursday, 11 February 2021

  • One more entry of the Melodi Grand Prix 2021 pre-qualified finalists has gone public, as Rein Alexander has released his song for the Norwegian ESC 2021 national final, titled “Eyes Wide Open” .

    Rein Alexander is one of the the six acts that have pre-qualified to the Grand final of Melodi Grand Prix 2021, the show that will determine the Norwegian hopeful for Eurovision 2021. 

    Following the previous releases of the entries of the first four prequalified acts, KEiiNO , TIX , Stavangerkameratene , Kaja Rode and Atle Pettersen   it was Rein Alexander's turn to release her entry for Melod Grand Prix 2021.

     

    Rein Alexander: «Eyes Wide Open» 

    (Melody: Rein Alexander Korshamn, Christian Ingebrigtsen, Kjetil Mørland)

    Singing and music were central to Rein Alexander's (49) upbringing. Already as a member of the choir “Sølvguttene”, singing took him around all of Norway and the world. Today he is a schooled and self-taught, experienced communicator and interpreter of many musical genres. 

    Norway, USA, Iceland, London, Italy and Sweden are places he has called home, both as a student and a professional. He has received awards at schools such as the Royal Academy of Music and The Reykjavik Academy of Singing and Vocal Arts. In 2003, the Norwegian people voted him to victory in the NRK show “Kjempesjansen”. 

    Rein Alexander has held a large number of concerts and tours for large audiences. He has also played roles such as Jean Valjean in "Les Miserables", Anatoly in "Chess", Terje Vigen, Caston in "Beauty and the Beast", Shere Kahn in "The Jungle Book", Anton Fugger in "Which witch" and more. 

    In 2020, Rein participated in the semi-finals during MGP, where he took the Norwegian people by storm with the song “One last time"” and thus advanced to the grand final in Trondheim. 

     

    MGP 2021 dates

    The Norwegian national selection  commenced on January 16 with the first semi final show and  continues this Saturday with the 3rd semi final show  and will conclude on February 20 with the Grand final.

    This is  the  Melodi Grand Prix schedule: 

    Semi-final 1 - January 16

    Semi-final 2 - January 23

    Semi-final 3 - January 30

    Semi-final 4 -  February 6

    Semi-final 5 - February 13

    Second Chance Round - February 14

    Grand final - February 20

     

     

    News Source: NRK 

    Photo Credit :  Julia Marie Naglestad/NRK.