Belgium: Eliot releases "Wake Up" for Eurovision 2019
Belgian broadcaster RTBF has released the music video for "Wake Up", the song that their representative Eliot Vassamillet will sing at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019
Eliot Vassamillet has just released his song for Eurovision 2019: Wake Up.
On radio station MNM, Eliot explained that the song is about the world that needs to wake up. And young people should do that.
In the video clip, you can see the singer in between a group of youngsters, who also lip sync the lyrics of his song.
The singer also said that he thinks it's a big opportunity for him to represent Belgium at Eurovision. Later today, there is a press conference at RTBF.
City Lights
"Wake up" is written by Pierre Dumoulin, who also wrote Belgium's song in 2017 City Lights. Singer Blanche finished 4th in Eurovision 2017 in Kiev.
Belgium in Eurovision Song Contest
Belgium has been participating 60 times in Eurovision since the beginning in 1956. They won the contest in 1986 (Sandra Kim - "J'aime La Vie"), but finished last 8 times (two of them with Null Points).
Since the introductions of the Semi-finals in 2004 Belgium qualified for the Grand Final 6 out of 15 times (In 2010 they came first in Semi-final 1).
