The Swedish-Moroccan singer, Lorraine Zeinab Noura Talhawi, known in music circles as Loreen technically, won the Eurovision Championship 2023 in a ceremony that lasted yesterday evening, Saturday, in the British city of Liverpool until dawn today, and was followed by Al-Arabiya.net on television, in which she got the award. 583 points, and beat candidates from 25 countries, which is her second win.
The Finnish singer Jere Pöyhönen, known as Käärijä technically, got 526 points for his performance of the song Cha Cha Cha and ranked second, compared to 362 points obtained by the Israeli Noa Kirel by performing the song Unicom and ranked third, while the Italian Marco Mengoni ranked fourth, with the song Due Vite, which he won. for 350 points. As for the fifth degree, it went to the Norwegian Alessandra for her performance of the song “Queen of Kings”, with which she got 268 points.
Yesterday’s final ceremony was rich in more than 4 hours of music, performances, entertainment and excitement, and ended with Lauren’s coronation in the 67th Eurovision Song Contest this year, by performing the song Tattoo, with which she achieved her second victory, and the seventh for Sweden, where she was born in 1983 to Berber immigrant parents, and became A singer and producer, she tasted fame for the first time when she participated in the Swedish Song Contest in September 2004, and ranked fourth that year. Then, in 2005, she performed the song “The Snake” with a local band, followed by presenting TV programs that made her famous.
Then Lauren returned to the Melodifestivalen2011 competition to sing again, and to represent Sweden in the international “Eurovision” competition, where she sang My Heart is Refusing Me, but she did not reach the final, according to her biography. However, the song succeeded in entering the official song list in Sweden. Then she tried again at Melodifestivalen2012 with her song Euphoria, which ranked first, achieving her first victory.
And Lorraine is the second artist to win the award twice after the Irishman Johnny Logan in the “Eurovision” of the eighties, so she described her win yesterday as “tremendous” To some extent, the agencies broadcast, supplied with almost uniform news, that she was the favorite of bookies and won the largest number of votes from professional judges In Eurovision’s complex voting system, she faced a strong challenge from Käärijä with the public vote.
