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Eurovision 2023: Swedish singer Loreen wins global music competition

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    Swedish singer Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night with her power ballad "Tattoo," at a colorful, eclectic music competition clouded for a second year running by the war in Ukraine. Eurovision 2023: Swedish singer Loreen wins global music competition
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Swedish singer Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night with her power ballad "Tattoo," at a colorful, eclectic music competition clouded for a second year running by the war in Ukraine.

The Swedish Loreen has achieved this Saturday with her song "Tattoo" her second personal triumph in Eurovision.

Loreen's triumph marks the seventh victory for her country, which will make her the first woman to achieve such a feat and her country the other major power at the festival by tying Ireland's record.

Second was the Finnish Käärijä and third was the Israeli Noa Kirel, with Blanca Paloma from Elche and her Flemish lullaby “EaEa” classified in seventeenth place, which leaves her far from the “top 5” initially predicted. It has been ninth for the juries, but its performance has obtained the lowest note of the televoting of the 26 contestant countries.

It was a final held at the Liverpool Arena in the British city of the same name and birthplace of the Beatles given the impossibility of Ukraine, the current champion, hosting the event in its territory due to the war with Russia.

With Loreen's victory, Eurovision will return to Sweden in 2024 just on the 50th anniversary of the first triumph of this country with its most emblematic artists, ABBA with the theme "Waterloo".

Loreen, Eurovision winner: "Not even in my wildest dreams would I have imagined this"
Swedish singer Loreen declared that not even in her "wildest dreams" would she have dreamed of repeating her triumph at the European festival, becoming the second person in history to do so.

Only Johnny Logan, who competed with Ireland, had won Eurovision twice, in 1980 and 1987, before Loreen, who won this Saturday in Liverpool thanks to her interpretation of 'Tattoo'.

“The only thing I can say right now is that I feel a lot of love and I am very grateful,” the singer said at the Liverpool Arena. "Not in my wildest dreams would I have imagined this would happen."