Eurovision organisers have teased an obvious Caribbean look at this yr’s contest.
“New Yr! New Information!” they introduced, in a message shared with greater than 1.3 million followers by the official Instagram web page, alongside a clip exhibiting crystal clear waters and golden seashores.
“We’re thrilled to verify that THE CARIBBEAN is coming to the Eurovision Track Contest 2024,” the submit stated. “Keep tuned, we will not wait to let you know extra.”
The 2024 occasion takes place in Malmo in Sweden, with Olly Alexander recently announced as the UK’s act.
May he be going through competitors from a Caribbean entrant? No additional particulars have been given, however Eurovision followers have been fast to level out the apparent upon seeing the teaser.
“It is Eurovision not Worldvision,” replied one.
“I should have been too busy sipping digital coconut water to catch the precise second when the Caribbean determined to swing by Europe,” wrote one other.
“There are such a lot of international locations within the Caribbean,” one other responded.
So it is not a rustic. And it is undoubtedly not in Europe. However, that hasn’t stopped Eurovision organisers earlier than.
Australia’s Dami Im was runner-up in 2016. Pic: AP/Martin Meissner
In 2015, having broadcast the competitors since 1983, Australia (additionally undoubtedly not in Europe) was invited to affix the celebration to commemorate Eurovision’s sixtieth anniversary.
It was speculated to be a one-off, however the Aussies went on to contribute in subsequent years – with contestant Dami Im ending as runner-up in 2016 together with her track, Sound Of Silence.
Morocco additionally competed in 1980.
However as one follower identified: “There’s numerous European territories within the Caribbean so perhaps they’re asserting {that a} Caribbean artist is representing a European nation?”
Sky Information has contacted Eurovision organisers for extra info. Watch this house.