Great favorite of Eurovision 2023, Laureen, the candidate of Sweden, has already won the singing competition several years ago…

Can you participate (and win) multiple times in Eurovision? If the question may seem surprising and the practice somewhat unfair, it should be noted that the rules of the European singing competition do allow countries participating in the competition to send the same representative several different years. This has happened several times since the creation of the competition in 1956: Johnny Logan, Australian singer who represented Ireland, for example participated and won twice, in 1980 and 1987.

Will Sweden equal this unlikely record? Big favorite of this Eurovision 2023, Loreen, the singer representing the Scandinavian country, seems to be on track. With her song called Tattoo, she has risen to the top of the rankings predicted by bookmakers for weeks and remains there, with nearly a 50% chance of winning, according to these punters (who often raison).

“I wanted to repeat this experience and find people who have faith in us,” the singer told the Huffington Post, explaining that she wanted to “be linked to all these positive energies” again at Eurovision, eleven years later. his first participation.

And singer Loreen, Sweden’s flag bearer at Eurovision 2023 and now 39, is far from unknown to fans of the contest since, as we said, she has already participated in and won the 2012 edition of the European singing competition. She then interpreted the song Euphoria on the stage of Baku, capital of Azerbaijan. Sweden, which won its fifth Eurovision victory that year (it has since won six), was then ahead of Russia, second and Serbia, on the third step of the podium.