ESC 2017: Levina is singing for Germany in Kiev – Augsburger Allgemeine

At Melodifestivalen has convinced Levina. It remains to hope that the singer can put the Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev. It is still rather unknown.

A smiling singer, the Germany flag in Hand, on the floor lies a Golden Glitter: Isabella Levina Lueen gives a first impression of how it might look when it’s on 13. May 2017 should run for you just as well, as on this evening in Cologne, Germany.

ESC 2017: More than a last place for Germany?

has won The German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest effortlessly. And, therefore hopes aroused that on may 13. May – at the ESC-final in Kiev – a little more could be than the last place. Germany has occupied for the last two years in a row. With the flag you can pose in any case.

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So to really take hold, the 25-Year-old her happiness, however, not yet. “It’s just a bit of a jumble in my head,” she says. The big stage you don’t know yet. Two minor appearances in the television, otherwise a lot of music in Bars, that was it. “With something I didn’t expect,” she says. How, for example, in the next time with your music management degree in London, she did not know. You have made it easy to think.

Levina has set itself against four musicians

The German ESC preliminary round, an average of only 3.14 million viewers in the First (previous year: good 4.3 million), were received in this year, but nominally five young musicians into the race. But both the Studio audience as well as Jury – the only animal coming to the end of the function – set early on a favourite: Isabella Levina Lueen, all just Levina. Johnny-Cash-Fan, Helene Nissen, which occurs with great guitar, and men-Dutt-winner Axel Maximilian Feige can keep up with you most likely. But already before the last round Levina stands as a winner. Open, with which song to start.

“had The now truly international level,” attested to her folk musician Florian silver iron, after their first appearance, with an Adele Cover. By the way, he also noted that the singer could not only succeed in a music-Casting, but also in the case of the Model-Show “Germany’s Next Topmodel”.

Also, when looking at the curriculum vitae of the new German ESC-hope, that much fits together. Even as a child, she performs in children’s musicals and wins the “Jugend musiziert”. She has completed a singing degree and has studied in London in music management. And they dominated on the stage, if necessary, also the great, classic gesture that is part of the ESC as once Ralph Siegel.

the “Perfect Life” is trying to Levina her luck in the ESC 2017

Fittingly, the Song, the audience you allocate is called, “Perfect Life”. In principle, this is also the only real Surprise of the Night, because felt long “Wildfire” on the front, the second Song, the. Both come from the pen of experienced, foreign composers. Behind the “Perfect Life” is the songwriter Lindy Robbins, who also helped the Backstreet Boys (“Incomplete”) and DJ David Guetta (“Dangerous”) to the Hits.

To five candidates, and two of the Songs to find the right combination, had the producers NDR and Raab TV a little complicated Tuning mode up. Even some of the efforts that were undertaken to prevent a disgrace as 2016 and 2015, as Germany failed in the ESC, with the last places. Around 2000 applications have been spotted. First of all, you put on the Lena factor. The last German ESC-winner will sit in the Jury, even behind the Scenes there is a lot of Overlap with the successful Lena-Casting 2010.

As you have switches after the Show, your cell phone, be gathered countless messages with her, summarizes Levina on Friday in the ARD”morning magazine” the rush to you. The device is assumed with battery problems again. With the victory song, you could live very well. “Perfect Life” is a Song, “the crowd can dance”. The flashback to their own preliminary decision falls to her, however difficult. “To be honest, I have no memory of it,” she says. She had been so overwhelmed that the brain had switched to threading.

In a few days you will be able to Levina ask if she still remembers the flag and the Glitter. the dpa