The twenty-fourth artist in our Who Is series for Eurovision 2022 is Malik Harris from Germany.
Malik Harris was born on 27th August 1997 in Landsberg am Lech, in Bavaria in southern Germany. His father is American television presenter and actor Ricky Harris. Malik has been fond of music since a young age and began creating guitar covers at 13 years old. The singer has several singles to his name, one EP (Like That Again), and one album (Anonymous Colonist).
In January 2022, it was revealed that Malik would compete in Germany’s Eurovision selection show “Germany 12 Points”, having previously made it to the final casting round held in Berlin. The final took place at the beginning of March, where Malik won by a 23 point margin.
Malik Harris will sing “Rockstars” at the Grand Final on May 14th.
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Germany was one of seven countries to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1956. The country has taken part in every contest since then, apart from in 1996 when they failed to make it through the qualifying round. To date Germany has won the contest twice, the first time being in 1982 when Nicole sang “Ein Bisschen Frieden” in Harrogate, which later became a global hit. Germany didn’t win again until 2010 when Lena sang “Satellite” in Oslo. She received 9 sets of 12 points, scoring 246 points overall.
