Tilburg’s Sep Jansen (13) finished seventh at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Nice on Sunday. Together with Jasmijn Torrico (14) he sang ‘Holding On To You’, an upbeat dance number. The festival was won by France, as the young duo had predicted.
On Sunday afternoon they were the last of the sixteen participating countries. We also saw the advantage of this in advance. “If we are last in line, people might remember our song best during voting,” Sep thought.
The last time the Netherlands won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest was in 2009 and it will remain that way for the time being. Then Ralf Mackenbach from Best won with his song ‘Click Clack’. Sep and Jasmijn were honest in advance about their chances of winning this year: “1 out of 16. We just practiced well. But we’ll see what happens,” said Jasmijn.
“It just has a really nice vibe.”
“We are really happy with our seventh place and we had so, so, so much fun!”, Sep told the Jeugdjournaal afterwards. “We are certainly not disappointed but just very happy.”
He said they really enjoyed the adventure. “Even though we did not win, I would like to thank everyone very much for voting for us. We will enjoy everything for a long time to come.”
Both previously indicated that host country France could do well. “I really like their song. It just has a really nice feel to it vibe“, said Sep. That turned out to be the case, because 13-year-old French Zoé Clauzure eventually won the song event with her song Barn.
They had received tips for their big performance from Luna, who traveled to Armenia for the Netherlands last year to participate in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. “She gave us a tip that we should just have fun, it will be over soon.”
At least they had fun. After the results, the duo indicated that they were also going to party tonight.
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2023-11-26 17:55:57
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