Born and raised in Montreal, Canadian singer L. a. Zarra is aiming for France’s first win in 46 years on the Eurovision 2023 tune contest finale Saturday night time.
The singer, 35, whose title is Fatima Zahra Hafdi, these days lives in Paris. She used to be handpicked through the rustic’s public broadcaster France Télévisions to constitute the country at this 12 months’s festival along with her French-language tune Évidemment.
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L. a. Zarra of France all through the flag rite sooner than all through the Grand Ultimate of the Eurovision Track Contest in Liverpool, England, Saturday, Might 13, 2023.
(AP Photograph/Martin Meissner)
In step with Eurovision, she co-wrote and co-produced the observe with different Montreal artists Benny Adam and Banx & Ranx, who’ve been chargeable for mega hits through Dua Lipa, David Guetta and Ellie Goulding.
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Hafdi used to be raised through Francophone Canadian oldsters of Moroccan descent.
She’s following Quebec mega artist Celine Dion’s footsteps, who represented Switzerland at Eurovision again in 1998.
This 12 months’s festival marks the primary time non-competing nations can take part and vote.
France is reckoning on L. a. Zarra to rally supporters from her house nation of Canada, her circle of relatives’s house nation of Morocco and different French talking countries.
Her 2021 unmarried Tu t’en iras went platinum and he or she used to be nominated for a number of awards.
This marks the second one time a French Canadian artist is representing France. Natasha St-Pier did so in 2001.
The tune festival is arranged through the Eu Broadcasting Union and has been held once a year since 1956. L. a. Zarra is these days ranked 6th out of 26 contestants forward of Saturday night time’s finale in Liverpool.
Votes will also be forged at the Eurovision web page or app.
