Non-binary artist Nemo gives Switzerland victory in Eurovision 2024; This was his presentation

The victory of Nemo, a 24-year-old non-binary rapper, managed to end almost four decades of Eurovision drought for Switzerland, the country where the first edition of the song festival was held in 1956, in the city of Lugano. European par excellence.

Switzerland had only won in that first edition with Refrainby Lys Assia, and had achieved it again in 1988 with Ne partez pas sans moi, sung by the Canadian Celine Dionwho years later would become a world star.

The 36 years that Switzerland has had to wait made the country, which is also the headquarters of the organizing body of the festivals, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), one of the winners that had not returned to the top for the longest time.

They were only surpassed by Belgium, which has not won the competition for 38 years, Luxembourg (41), France (47), Monaco (53) and, of course, Spain, which from Vivo singing Salome55 years ago, does not know what victory is, although there are still more than twenty nations that have never won, including “historical” like Cyprus or Malta.

The winner of this edition, Nemo Mettler, Born in the bilingual city of Biena, on the border between French-speaking and German-speaking Switzerland, he is currently developing his musical career in Berlin, although he has been popular in his country for almost a decade.

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At the end of last year, Nemo, who alternates between male and female clothing in his performances and music videos, declared himself non-binary, and in the winning song of the night, The Codeexpressed his internal and external struggle to assume that gender identity.

“I went to hell and back to find the way. “I broke the code”shouts in the chorus a Nemo who links his victory with many others of the LGBTQI collective in Eurovision, including those of the Israeli Dana International in 1998 or the Austrian Conchita Wurst in 2014.

In recent decades, the Alpine country had had a fairly discreet trajectory in Eurovision, and even since the implementation of the semi-final system its presence in the grand final had been almost exceptional.

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However, in 2021 he was about to make a splash with Tout l’univers de Gjon’s Tears, which came first in the final after the jury votes, but dropped to third position when the always controversial televoting was added.

Nemo has won by singing in English, a language that in Switzerland with four official languages ​​(French, German, Italian and Romansh) is widely used as a lingua franca among the different language communities.and which so far this century he has used 17 times in his Eurovision appearances.

Until then, the language preferred by Switzerland to compete had been French (used in 25 songs of all those brought to the festival), while German has been used in 12 editions, Italian in 11, and Romansh only in 1989, the second year in which a Swiss city (Lausanne) hosted the contest.

Non-binary artist Nemo gives Switzerland victory in Eurovision 2024; This was his presentation