A widely heralded victory for Sweden at the 67th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. As advertised, it was a neck-and-neck race with Finland, which won the televoting and placed second with Käärijä and the song Cha Cha Cha. To bring the event back to Scandinavia, Loreen achieved her second win with the song Tattoo, which had already been chosen as the favorite the night before.
In third place is Israel with Noa Kirel and Unicorn. Marco Mengoni finished fourth. But he was still the star of the evening. Not only did he wow the 12,000 crowd at the Liverpool Arena with his intense and powerful performance of Due Vite, the song with which he won the Sanremo Festival and which brought home the composers’ Marcel Bezençon Composer Award for Best Composition brought the songs in the competition but also wanted to bring the LGBTQI flag designed by graphic designer Daniel Quasar to the stage to make the famous rainbow flag even more inclusive. Five other colors, white, pink, blue, brown and black, positioned sideways.
The new color stripes are dedicated to the black community, the transgender community, HIV patients and those who have died fighting for rights. The evening opened on behalf of Ukraine, which should have hosted the event after the Kalush Orchestra’s victory in Turin last year. But the current situation of the country, which is still at war, does not allow this. And so, in an ideal connection between Kiev and Liverpool, chosen as the alternative venue for the event, the Kalush Orchestra itself, speakers of the Ukrainian drama, opened the finale with “Stefania”, the play that brought them victory a year ago and a film starring British artists such as Andrew Lloyd Webber and Joss Stone.
Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales also made guest appearances on the piano. In support of Ukraine, the Czech Republic also underlined Vesna, with the song “My Sister’s Crown”, a feminist anthem that invites never to give up, but also a song with a political background and a humanitarian message of support for the Ukrainian people from The chorus is sung in Ukrainian. Let3 Croatians also say no to dictatorships and war and stay on stage in their underwear and with fake rockets. But Eurovision doesn’t traditionally forego its dose of excessive show, trash, feathers and sequins. Likewise, he has not given up paying homage to the city that hosted him with the Liverpool Songbook, in which some of the artists who have been the protagonists in previous editions have traced the history of the city’s music. Among them was an enthusiastic Mahmood, who starred in a revamped version of Imagine, the great John Lennon classic. The artist is in his third Eurovision appearance after representing Italy in Tel Aviv 2019, who finished second with Soldi in Turin last year, along with Blanco and a sixth place thanks to Chills, the first Italian to appear as a guest outside of competition in a was invited edition abroad.
Marco Mengoni on stage with Italian and rainbow flags
In addition to the Italian flag, Marco Mengoni brought the rainbow flag, a symbol of peace, to the stage for the first presentation of the 26 artists who competed in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool. Five other colors, white, pink, blue, brown and black, placed sideways almost like a badge or maybe as a reminder. It is the Lgbtqi flag that Marco Mengoni waved on stage at the Eurovision Song Contest tonight. It was designed by graphic designer Daniel Quasar to make the famous rainbow flag even more inclusive. The new color stripes are dedicated to the black community, the transgender community, HIV patients and those who have died fighting for rights.
In an ideal connection between Kiev, where this year’s Eurovision Song Contest should have taken place, and Liverpool, chosen as an alternative venue, the Kalush Orchestra, last year’s winner and speaker of the Ukrainian drama, opens the 2023 final with the play Stefania and with a Film starring British artists of the caliber Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sam Ryder and Joss Stone. Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales also made guest appearances on the piano.
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