The identification of Norway’s Eurovision breakout stars Subwoolfer has been revealed.
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The identification of the act, who represented Norway in Eurovision 2022, has been a carefully guarded secret up till now.
This night (February 4), the duo carried out a brand new track, ‘Worst Stored Secret’ on Norway’s stay closing for Eurovision after which they revealed their true identities.
The duo have been revealed to be Ben Adams from nineties boyband A1 and Norwegian musician and Idol runner up, Gaute Ormåsen.
All through 2022, there was a lot hypothesis in regards to the identification of the duo whose faces have been hid behind comical yellow wolf masks.
Adams stated of the Eurovision expertise: “It’s been the weirdest 12 months of our lives – and holding ‘the worst stored secret in Norway’ has been difficult! From Alan Walker to Tix to Ylvis to different randoms, the hearsay mill has been a wild journey. However we rode it. One query stays…who’s DJ Astronaut!? See you on the opposite aspect for Subwoolfer 2.0!”.
You’ll be able to take heed to their new track right here:
The duo have been initially 50-1 to win final 12 months’s Eurovision in Italy with their monitor ‘Give That Wolf A Banana’. Nevertheless, they completed the competitors in tenth place with 182 factors, a way off the winners, Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra and UK runner up Sam Ryder.
Quickly after the competitors, the band posted a video of themselves round Turin performing a parody of Dolly Parton‘s well-known hit ‘Jolene’.
Reviewing final 12 months’s Eurovision evening, NME wrote: “Eurovision 2022 was all about wanting ahead: Sam Ryder reminding us that the UK can really win this factor, and Ukraine exhibiting the world simply how a lot company it has. Sure, the competition may be foolish – hiya, ‘Give That Wolf A Banana’ – but it surely’s additionally unusually and essentially profound.”
In the meantime, the stage design for this 12 months’s Eurovision was revealed this week.
Designed by New York agency Yellow Studio, the stage is supposed to appear like a large hug enfolding the M&S Financial institution Enviornment in Liverpool, the place the competition is being held, reflecting the nation opening its arms to Ukraine. Final 12 months’s contest was received by Kalush Orchestra, however Ukraine have been unable to host Eurovision 2023 as a result of its ongoing invasion by Russian forces.
The design connects the stage, performers, viewers and inexperienced room as one construction, providing the contestants a number of efficiency places. Per a press launch, it is usually designed to “reveal how music can transcend borders and produce individuals collectively as one unit”.
Eurovision 2023 will happen on the M&S Financial institution Enviornment in Liverpool on Saturday Might 13. It was chosen because the host metropolis again in October, warding off competitors from Glasgow.
