Fan favorite act Electric Fields will become Australia’s first duo to take part in the Eurovision Song Contest
Electric Fields, a duo whose work combines dance music with indigenous culture, will represent Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.
The pair, made up of singer Zaachariaha Fielding and keyboardist and producer Michael Ross, will perform their song One Milkali (One Blood), a song about a ‘united world’, at the competition, which takes place in Malmö, Sweden in May.
The group is well known to fans since their song 2000 And Anything came second at the Eurovision Australia Decides song contest in 2019.
They lost first place to Kate Miller-Heidke, who ultimately finished ninth in the final competition with her song Zero Gravity.
Electric Fields will be the first duo to send Australia to the Eurovision-reported industry blog TV tonight, after SBS and Blink TV announced their participation in the competition on Wednesday.
Electric Fields, a duo that combines dance music with indigenous culture, will represent Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. Pictured: Zaachariaha Fielding and Michael Ross (R) at the 2019 Eurovision – Australian Decides competition
One Milkali uses Yankunytjatjara in its lyrics, an indigenous language of the Anangu people.
Fielding rose to fame after appearing on The Voice in 2014 and later co-founding Electric Fields with Ross in 2015.
It comes after Perth progressive metal band Voyager wowed fans at last year’s Eurovision Song Contest with their song Promise.
Perth-based progressive metal band Voyager surprised fans at the Eurovision Song Contest last year with their song Promise. (Pictured)
Although they finished in ninth place, the song took off thanks to their spectacular performance.
It ended up charting Apple Music’s metal chart in Iceland, Ireland, UK, Israel, Poland, Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, Slovenia, Finland and Lithuania.
Promise also charted on Spotify’s Viral Songs chart, hitting third in Sweden and fourth in Iceland and Australia last May.
Australian singer Silia Kapsis, 17, will represent Cyprus at Eurovision 2024 with her song Liar.
Voyager came ninth, after Estonia, Belgium, Ukraine, Norway, Italy, Israel, Finland and Sweden.
Meanwhile, Australian singer Silia Kapsis, 17, has been chosen to represent Cyprus at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with her song Liar.
It comes after Andrew Lambrou, 25, performed his song Break a Broken Heart as his Cypriot entry last year.