Suitable for this year’s ESC Motto “Open up” to engage the 21-year-old Gjon Muharremaj, as he is called with civil name, the adventure and its consequences. “I want to give my Best, I want to show that I have roots, proud of me, am, my, and everything I have achieved,” he was quoted in a media release of the Swiss Radio and television SRF as of Wednesday.

Muharremajs parents come from Albania and Kosovo. Although he grew up in Switzerland and the country as his homeland, meant to him these influences very much, – says Gjon’s Tears.

The Song, with Switzerland at the ESC want to go. Video: Youtube

His name, he has stirred back to an experience as a nine-year-old, as his grandfather, with it’s own Version of Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling In Love” to tears.

The grandfather was also there, who discovered his Talent, but signed him to a talent contest in Albania. In “Albanians got talent” took Gjon’s Tears as a 12-Year-old the third place, a year later, he reached the semi-final at “The biggest Swiss talents”, and in 2019, he came as far at “The Voice: La Plus Belle Voix” in France.

As the Swiss hope for the ESC 2020 was selected Gjon’s Tears of 100 television viewers and a jury of international experts. “Répondez-moi”, a mystical, emotional number, he wrote with the composer Xavier Michel, Alizé Oswald (producer: Jeroen Swinnen).

this year’s Eurovision Song Contest will take place from 12. to 16. May in Rotterdam instead. Gjon’s Tears occurs on Thursday, 14. May in the second semi-final against his competitors. (sda)

Created: 04.03.2020, 14:25 PM