This Saturday Sweden will start searching for the artist who will represent the country in Baku at the Eurovision Song Contest in May. Here is a look at the first heat from the town of Växjö where we will see former Eurovision participants and other well known names together with singers who will take part in the competition for the first time.
Song nr. 1: Sean Banan – Sean Den Förste Banan
1Sean Banan, whose original name is Sean Samadi, was born in Iran 1985 and came to Sweden at an early age. Sean has made his name known With appearances in television shows and his song Skaka rumpa which for a while was the most played song on Spotify in the summer of 2010. In February 2012 he will appear in a movie together with Kikki Danielsson (who made numerous appearences at Melodifestivalen and also came 3rd for Sweden at Eurovision 1985). A crazy number on the stage in Växjö is probably to be expected.
The song is written by Sean Samadi, Joakim Larsson, Hans Blomberg and Mårten Andersson.
Song nr. 2: Abalone Dots – På väg
The group received a price at the Swedish Grammy Awards in 2009 in the category for best folk music/singer songwriter of the year.
The song is written by Rebecka Hjukström, Sophia Hogman, Louise Holmer and Victor Källgren.
Song nr. 3: The Moniker – I Want To Be Chris Isaak (This Is Just the Beginning)
The song is written by Daniel Karlsson himself.
Song nr: 4: Afro-Dite – The Boy Can Dance
The song is written by Figge Boström, Catrine Loqvist and Johan Lindman.
Song nr. 5: Dead by April – Mystery
The song is written by the ex-band member Pontus Hjelm.
Song nr. 6: Marie Serneholt – Salt & Pepper
Marie was also one of the members in the group A-teens during 1998 – 2004. In 2006 she released the single That’s the Way That My Heart Goes.
The song is written by the Lina Eriksson, Mårten Eriksson and Figge Boström.
Song nr. 7: Thorsten Flinck & Revolutionsorkestern – Jag reser mig igen
The song is written by Thomas G:son and Ted Ström.
Song nr. 8: Loreen – Euphoria
Loreen participated in Melodifestivalen 2011 where she got as far as to the second chance heat with the song My Heart is Refusing Me. The song was a hit in the swedish charts and she aslo had a follow up single named Sober. She also took part in swedish Idol 2004 where she came 4th.
The song is written by Thomas G:son and Peter Boström.
The show will start at 20:00 CET on Saturday the 4th of February and can been seen by visiting the Swedish national broadcasters site www.SVT.se.