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Olly Alexander – the Eighth Participant for Eurovision 2024

The United Kingdom’s chosen its representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, which takes place in Malmö, Sweden. It’s Olly Alexander, who’ll represent his country, which is taking part in the ESC for the 66th time.

The composition

The song hasn’t been released yet, however, some information has been revealed, namely on the day of the British announcement, there was only official confirmation of previous rumors that the co-author of Alexander’s song for Eurovision 2024 is Danny L Harle (Daniel Jack Eisner Harle), producer of, among others, Dua Lipa’s latest hit – “Houdini”. Olly Alexander avoids revealing details and he only announced that the number is electronic, a type of a song you can dance to.

You can hear an example of Olly Alexander’s artistic work here:

Olly Alexander – “Crave” – the United Kingdom | Eurovision Song Contest 2024

The procedure

The UK’s 2024 representative was chosen internally. In an interview for BBC Radio 1, Olly mentioned that he was supposed to represent his country a few years ago, but there wasn’t a suitable song that he could present. Rumors of Alexander’s representing UK at the ESC appeared in 2014, and since the huge success of “King” by Years & Years a year later, they’ve been among the main fan favourites to be the ones who would fight for the UK’s sixth ESC victory.

The idea of ​​participating in the Eurovision Song Contest together with Danny L Harle appeared about a year ago. They experimented with songs that could perform well in the competition. Finally, the selected proposal is completed and ready for publication. According to previous BBC reports, both Olly and his song had been chosen last summer.

Olly Alexander appeared on the Strictly Come Dancing 2023 Final on Saturday (16th December) night and he revealed that he would be representing the UK at next year’s Eurovision Song Contest.

What do we know about Olly Alexander?

Olly Alexander (Oliver Alexander Thornton) was born in 1990 in Harrogate, the UK – the host city of Eurovision 1982. He’s an English singer, and actor as well. Olly made his acting and musical debut in 2008. After two years, he joined the newly founded group Years & Years. Their first album was released in 2012. The band’s greatest success was the single “King” (2015), which reached number one in the UK Single Charts. Since then, the group has become one of the most famous bands in the UK.

Since 2021, Olly Alexander’s been the only permanent member of the project and often focuses on solo performances. He has also collaborated with leading music stars, for example he performed “It’s a Sin” with Elton John in 2021 at the BRIT Awards. In total, Olly’s received six BRIT Awards nominations. Oliver is also known for his activist attitude and is openly talking about his experiencing depression, eating disorders and bullying at school. Moreover, as an icon of the LGBT+ community, he promotes sexual health and HIV prevention.

Eurovision Song Contest 2024

The Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Malmö, Sweden on Tuesday, 7th May (the First Semi-final), Thursday, 9th May (the Second Semi-final) and Saturday, 11th May (the Grand Final) 2024.

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Source (including photo):

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eurovision.tv;

bbc.com;

bracknellnews.co.uk.

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