Nemo represented the LGBTQIA+ community at Eurovision 2024. Her song (which won) is a hymn to freedom: she sang with a colorful and floral look.
Nemo at the Eurovision Song Contest
The victory ofEurovision Song Contest 2024 she went to Nemo. Starting as the favourite, he actually took first place, as predicted. Seventh place for Angelina Mango, with Boredom. The singer represented his country at the singing competition Swisswith the song The code. The song tells of his difficult journey of accepting anon-binary sexual identity. At the Malmo Arena, in Sweden, he represented the LGBTQIA+ community, giving voice to those like him who for a long time felt wrong and different.
Nemo wins Eurovision 2024
Born in 1999, Nemo was born in Biel, a small bilingual city in Switzerland. He has been passionate about music since he was little, when he started studying violin, piano and drums. Known as a rapper and musician, Nemo is highly appreciated in his country, where he won 4 prizes at the 2018 Swiss Music Awards. He arrived at the Eurovision Song Contest by passing the selection of the TV broadcaster SRF and immediately established himself in the competition with his song, which conquered everyone from the first listen.
In fact, he was among the favorites in first place, according to the pre-final predictions. Nemo brought in the race an intimate and personal songautobiographical. The code tells the story of self-acceptance: he identifies himself neither as a man nor as a woman. A few months ago, when he felt ready, came out as a non-binary person, in fact he uses the pronouns they/them. “I cracked the code. Who decides what is wrong, what is right? Everything is balance, everything is light” he sings in the song. Taking up the concept of balance, he performed singing balanced on a metal platform.
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Nemo’s hymn to freedom
Nemo’s hymn to freedom it also comes through in her colorful and genderless outfits. In the final she performed her complex performance wearing a short peach pink skirt and an oversized fur coat, whose petal decorations were also found on her shoes. Speaking at a press conference after the victory you said:
I feel incredibly proud, not just for myself, but for our entire community, for anyone out there who is non-binary, gender-fluid, transgender, just people who have the courage to be themselves, people who need to be heard and included. We need more compassion, we need more empathy, we need to listen to each other, we need to try to understand each other instead of talking about each other, we need to talk to each other. I think that’s really important. I hope tonight can be a way to remember him.
