Australia: SBS Has Selected Their Eurovision 2017 Participant

Australia has selected their participant and song for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017, with the reveal taking place soon.

Michael Ebeid the Managing Director of the Australian broadcaster SBS has now signed off on all the Australian preparations for the 62nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv, Ukraine. This year will be the third time that Australia has competed at the Eurovision Song Contest, with SBS again opting to internally select both their singer and song for the contest in Kyiv, Ukraine.

It is expected that Australia will reveal their participant for Kyiv during the first week of March, followed by the reveal of the song just over a week later. To date two singers have represented Australia at the contest, Guy Sebastian in 2015 and Dami Im in 2016. Dami Im is the most successful singer at the contest so far finishing in 2nd place in Stockholm just 23 points behind the winner Jamala from Ukraine. Dami Im’s song “Sound of Silence” won the jury voting with 320 points, but finished 4th in the televote with 191 points.

Australia is one of three countries who have yet to reveal their participant in this years contest and are holding an internal selection process. Russia and San Marino are also yet to reveal details of the singer who will represent them. Discussions are still ongoing in Russia as to who will represent them, while in San Marino there are still questions as to whether they will be participating in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Source: Michael Ebeid

[tw-accordion class=””] [tw-accordion-section title=”Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest”] Australia debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2015 as part of celebrations marking 60 years of the Eurovision Song Contest. Australia has broadcast the contest since 1983 making it the country which watched the contest for the longest period of time before taking part in the contest. In 2016 Australia was represented by Dami Im with the song “Sound of Silence”. She brought Australia 2nd place in the final scoring 511 points, she was just 23 points away from victory.
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