After an absence of more than thirty years, Luxembourg is participating again in the Eurovision Song Contest. From 1993 to the sixty-eighth edition of the Eurovision Song Contest: it is a beautiful leap, performed by the half-Israeli singer TALI.
Fighter
Fighter is the pop song that Tali Golergant (her stage name is TALI) sings in both French – one of the three official languages in Luxembourg – and English and that encourages listeners to pursue and achieve his, her or their dreams every day. keep on fighting:
Come, I will never let you down.
I know you are a fighter.
Hold the love in your heart,
you know you are a fighter
The perfect song
TALI submitted four of her own songs for her audition. None of these songs made it to the Luxembourg preliminary round. Fighter was already written three years ago during a song writing camp, but until then no suitable executive had been found. One of the song’s composers, Silvio Lisbonne, in an interview with RTL Luxembourg: ‘We sent the song to the Eurovision production in Luxembourg, they loved it. It took weeks before we could find someone who could sing it, and then we found TALI.”
To persevere
“When I heard it, it felt like mine,” TALI says. The song appealed to her because of the challenges that come with starting a music career, and because of the fact that she persevered despite setbacks and can now represent Luxembourg on the Eurovision stage. The song is not vocally simple, but TALI sees that as a challenge.
World traveler
Through many travels, TALI has already seen a lot of the world. The now twenty-three year old singer was born in Jerusalem and moved to South America when she was five months old. There she lived in Chile (four years) and Argentina (six years). Eventually, ten years ago, TALI settled with her family in a small town in Luxembourg. All these countries have special images in her heart, Tali calls herself an Israeli, a Luxembourgish and a Latina.
Passion
Her passion for music started at the age of seven when she discovered her talent for playing the piano. Five years later, TALI started singing, after which she released her first song with her band Blue Stripes at the age of sixteen. To realize her dream of becoming a musician, TALI moved again in 2019. This time to New York, where she studied musical and theater, which she completed in May 2023. To pass on her talent for music and singing and earn some money at the same time, she taught music at a school.
Eurovision ambition
“I never really had the ambition to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest,” TALI says in several interviews, but her grandfather sent her updates about the event every year. ‘He was a big fan.’
TALI: ‘When it was announced in Luxembourg that the country would participate in the Eurovision Song Contest this year, everyone in the country was enthusiastic. For the first time in thirty-one years we participated again,” TALI adds. During the announcement, TALI was in New York, where her phone was flooded with messages from friends and family members, each urging her to audition – which she did, with familiar results.
Israel
TALI’s Israeli origins and its involvement with the country are causing some commotion. Much of her team is Israeli, TALI visits the country annually and her brother is a soldier in the Israeli army. TALI says about this in an interview with Euromix Euromix: ‘I love Israel.’ But she also emphasizes in the same conversation that she is in the Eurovision Song Contest to represent Luxembourg and not Israel. Although that country is close to her heart, Luxembourg is her home. TALI: ‘I’m here to make music, I’m here to spread love and kindness.’
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