Switzerland: Gjon’s Tears unveils his Eurovision 2021 song titled “Tout l’univers”

Switzerland: Gjon’s Tears unveils his Eurovision 2021 song titled “Tout l’univers”
Wednesday, 10 March 2021

  • The Swiss Eurovision 2021 representative, Gjon's Tears, has released the song he will be performing in Rotterdam next May titled “Tout l’univers”.

    Gjon's Tears has dropped his Eurovison track , “Tout l’univers” (The Whole Universe) after months of work and preparations. The Swiss entry came out of a total of 13 songs which  were prepared within the framework of a song camp with Gjon's Tears adding in his vocals at each track. Then the 13 songs were assessed by a 100 member audience panel and a jury of international experts. The evaluation took place with points awarded and observations on the entries. The 13 songs were refined in accrodance with the feedback, with the Swiss hopeful recording live the performances of the songs. This taped performances were submitted back to the jury in order to select the final song to be the next Swiss Eurovision entry. 

    The song has been penned by Gjon’s Tears himself joined by songwriters Wouter Hardy, Nina Sampermans and Xavier Michel within the framwork of a song-writing camp. Wouter Hardy is also the producer. The song combines Gjon’s well defined tone of voice with a choir, piano and strings, joined by a modern beat, while it's music video takes us to a spirtual universal journey highlighting the notions of life and death through an existensial approach. 

     

    A few word for Gjon's Tears

    Gjon Muharremaj, also known professionally as Gjon’s Tears, is a Swiss singer and songwriter of Kosovo-Albanian descent. Gjon Muharremaj was born to a Kosovo-Albanian father and an Albanian mother from Tirana. In 2010, he competed in the first season of the talent competition Albanians Got Talent. In 2019, he auditioned for the eight season of The Voice of France and reached the semi-finals.

    The Swiss act was selected for Eurovision 2020, through an internal selection format based on a 21 member international jury and a 100 membered audience panel. The International jury cosnsited of Ruth Lorenzo (Spain 2014)  Tinkara Kovač (Slovenia 2014), Ovidiu Jacobsen (Romania 2010&2014),Helga Möller (member of Icytrio , Iceland 1986)  and Alexey Gross (3 times national finalist in Belarus). In Rotterdam he was set to perform his song  Répondez-moi. 

    The song is written by Xavier Michel, Alizé Oswald and Jeroen Swinnen together with the artist Gjon Muharremaj. Jeroen Swinnen previously worked with Tom Dice on his Eurovision 2010 entry “Me and My Guitar”: “Répondez-moi” was the first Swiss song to be sung in French for 10 years.

    Now Gjon's Tear will have the chance to complete his Eurovision jounrey in Rotterdam next May with his new entry.

     

    Switzerland in Eurovision 

    Switzerland made its debut in the first  Eurovision Song Contest back in 1956 and won the same year with Lys Assia. It was not until 1988  when the country was crowned winner for the 2nd time with Celine Dion leaving in second place behind the United Kingdom only by a narrow margin of 1 point.

    In 2018 reached its 4th year of non qualifying results with the duo Zibbz and their song Stones. However in 2019 Luca Hänni made the difference for Switzerland as his entry “She Got me” not only managed to reach the grand final but achieved a 4th placing, the best result since 1993.

    Last year's Gjon's Tears was set to represent the country with “Répondez-moi” but saw his Eurovision journey stay finish early as the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic.