Austria selects Cesár Sampson internally for Lisbon

Cesár Sampson will represent Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon. Broadcaster ÖRF has announced this news on their radio station Ö3.

The song for Cesár will be available in February, the Austrian broadcaster reveals. The title is “Nobody But You”.

Cesár Sampson will be on stage as the main artist for the first time, but has been a member of Symphonix International. This Vienna-based collective of producers was also responsible for the songs of Poli Genova (4th in 2016) and Kristian Kostov (2nd in 2017) from Bulgaria.

Successor of Nathan Trent

Austria was represented by Nathan Trent in Kiev. He reached the final with his song ‘Running On Air’. In the end, he reached a 16th place with 93 points, coming mostly from the professional jury’s.