Finland: Listen to Darude's songs for UMK 2019

The superstar Darude will represent Finland at Eurovision 2019 along with vocalist Sebastian Rejman. YLE – Finland's broadcaster –internally chose Darude in January 2019, and now all his three songs are released.

This year's UMK – Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu, the Finnish national selection – will be again focused on one artist, Darude, who will be performing 3 songs. Following the performances, the Finnish public along with a professional jury will decide on which song Darude and Sebastian Rejman will take to Tel Aviv.

The three songs for UMK 2019 are:

1. Release Me
   Composers: Ville Virtanen, Jaakko Manninen, Brandyn Burnette
2. Superman
   Composers: Ville Virtanen, Chris Hope, Thom Bridges
3. Look Away
   Composers: Sebastian Rejman, Ville Virtanen

Song #2: Superman

Song #3: Look Away

UMK 2019

Darude was chosen to follow up on Saara Aalto's footprints who managed to qualify for last year's Eurovision Grand Final. This year's UMK – Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu, the Finnish national selection – will be again focused on one artist, Darude, who will be performing 3 songs. Following the performances, the Finnish public along with a professional jury will decide on which song should Finland take to Tel Aviv.

The 3 songs for Darude feat. Sebastian Rejman were released on 7, 14 and 21 February 2019.

UMK 2019 will take place on 2 March 2019 in Turku. Tickets: yle.fi/umk

Finland in Eurovision Song Contest

Finland debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1961 and has participated ever since, except for six years, mostly because of last years bad position. The country has won the competition once, in 2006 with the song "Hard Rock Hallelujah", performed by Lordi. Since then Finland's best result is 11th place in 2014.

Since the introductions of semi-finals in 2004, Finland has qualified for the Grand Final 8 out of 15 times.