Zoë Më has been selected to represent Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel.
Zoë Më will represent Switzerland on home ground at Eurovision 2025. She was selected through an internal selection, a method through which all Swiss Eurovision entrants since 2019 have been selected. She is the first female solo artist to represent Switzerland since 2015.
Zoë Më is 24 years old and was born in Basel, the host city of Eurovision 2025. She then moved with her family to Germany. When she was 9, she moved back to Switzerland and to Fribourg in western Switzerland, where she still lives today.
Zoë performs in a mixture of German and French, reflecting her upbringing. In 2024, she was named “SRF 3 Best Talent” in the German-speaking region of Switzerland and “RTS Artiste Radar” in the French-speaking region, both of which highlight new artists. She has performed at festivals such as the Montreux Jazz Festival and Luzern Live and supported Remo Forrer, who represented Switzerland in Eurovision 2023, on his concert tour.
The song that Zoë will perform in front of a home crowd in Basel will be revealed at 10:00 CET on March 10.
As the representative of the host country of this year’s contest, Zoë will automatically qualify for the grand final alongside the Big 5. She will also have the opportunity to perform in the first semi final in a non-competitive slot in the show, which coincides with the night that Swiss viewers are able to vote this year.
Switzerland will host the contest for the third time, after the inaugural edition at Lugano in 1956 and the 1989 edition at Lausanne. The contest will take place at Basel’s St. Jakobshalle on May 13, 15 and 17. Nemo won the contest for Switzerland in 2024 with their entry “The Code”.
Image Source: Maurice Haas | Source: SRF
Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest
Switzerland hosted the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956 in Lugano, a contest that they also won. Lys Assia won the first contest with the song “Refrain”. It wasn’t until 1988 that Switzerland would win the contest again. Celine Dion won with “Ne partez pas sans moi” in Dublin, she beat the United Kingdom to victory by just 1 point. Switzerland won for a third time in 2024 represented by Nemo with “The Code”.
