Thomas Neuwirth, as Conchita Wurst and the song Contest, won, and learned to sing to the music of Celine Dion, to listen to what he tells the Volkskrant.

“Dion told me: you are not hard right in front of you to scream with all the power that you have,” says Neuwirth. “If you’re so hard to sing, kún, you do not fake it: it’s the sound that you get out of your body works, it’s the sound of your body is unique, and by definition, a real one. Celine Dion has taught me that singing is something physically, it is.”

finally, Neuwirth says that he was the Celine Dion song ” My Heart Will Go On in his head, learned to play when he’s out of the closet it came out. “They gave me, as it were, to consent to be nice and dramatic and over-the-top.”

In 2014, won, Neuwirth’s Eurovision song Contest, when Conchita Wurst with the song Rise Like A Phoenix. At this point, he is seen as a member of the jury of the first season of the German reality tv series Queens of Drag.