In a busy week of rehearsals, Svala, who will represent Iceland at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with “Paper”, found time to perform her version of Jamala’s winning Eurovision song from last year’s edition, “1944” – the song that brought the contest to Kyiv for the second time.
Svala will be representing Iceland at this years Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Paper”. She has had an impressive career so far that has seen her travel the world since she broke through into the music world in the mid-90s. From the start of her career, she quickly established herself as one of the most in-demand singers in Iceland and in 2001 released her debut album “The Real Me”.
The daughter of established sing Björgvin Halldórsson she is no stranger to the world of musical talent shows and has Eurovision running in her veins. Her farther Björgvin represented Iceland at the Eurovision Song Contest 1995 with the song “Nuna”. In recent years she has been a judge on the Voice of Iceland, the show in recent years has launched a number of artists who are competing in this year’s Icelandic selection.
[tw-accordion class=””] [tw-accordion-section title=”Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest”] Iceland debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1986 and has participated annually every year since. The contest is incredibly popular in Iceland, regularly being one of the most-watched programmes of the year. Iceland has yet to win the contest but has finished 2nd twice in the contest. In 1999, Selma missed out on victory in Jerusalem by 17 points. In 2009, Johanna became the most successful Icelandic entrant ever finishing 2nd in the final with the song “Is it True?”, scoring 218 points; this, however, was still 169 points behind the winners Norway.[/tw-accordion-section] [/tw-accordion]
