KEiiNO returns to the Norwegian preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest in 2021. The televote winners of 2019 take part with the song ‘Monument’.
In the upcoming days, broadcaster NRK will announce all the candidates for the preselection. KEiiNO have a direct spot in the grand final of MGP 2021. In 2019 they won the televote in Tel Aviv with the song ‘Spirit in the sky’, but due to a bad result in the jury vote they ended up in sixth place.
The first ten acts have already been announced. Direct in the final:
TIX
Atle Pettersen
Stavangerkameratene
Kaja Rode
Rein Alexander
KEiiNO
Semi-finalists:
Stina Talling
Jorn
Blåsemafian
Beady Belle
Ulrikke won the Norwegian final in 2020 and was bound to represent Norway at Eurovision 2020 in Rotterdam with the song ‘Attention’. After the contest was cancelled, she did not get a free pass to go Eurovision after all and decided not to take part in a preselection in 2021.