Today at 11:00 CET the Swiss national broadcaster, SRF, announced Nemo with the song “The Code” as their country’s representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmö (Sweden). The Swiss contestant was chosen internally, just like last year’s contestant Remo Forrer.
Internal selection
Nemo was chosen out of a great bunch of artists by an international professional jury, but also a public jury; the selection happened internally, a way of choosing a new Eurovision artist that Switzerland has been consistently using in the past couple of years. The song that Nemo will sing in the 2024 contest is “The Code”.
About “The Code”
The song that Nemo will sing in the upcoming contest is called “The Code”, and is about the way Nemo had to walk to come to the conclusion that they are non-binary, which means that they feel nor woman nor man, but it can also mean that one feels both woman and man. The song is about cracking “The Code” about becoming who you need to be and who you truly are. Nemo also explained that the song is about “getting closer to yourself”.
About Nemo
Nemo, full name: Nemo Mettler, is a Swiss-born rapper, singer, and musician. Nemo has released multiple EPs in his home country, Switzerland; these releases were both in English as Swiss-German. In 2017 Nemo scored a hit in Switzerland with the song “Du”, which reached fourth place in the charts in Switzerland, and was eligible for a platinum status.
When will Switzerland perform in Eurovision 2024?
Switzerland will perform in the first half of the second Semi-final on May 9th 2024 in Malmö (Sweden).
Who competed for Switzerland in Eurovision 2023?
In the Eurovision Song Contest of 2023 in Liverpool (UK) Switzerland was represented by Remo Forrer with the song “Watergun”. Remo made it to the 7th place (of 15) in Semi-final 1, and eventually reached 20th place (of 26) in the Grand Final of 2023.