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Jacob Mendez
Jacob Mendez

Eurovision 2024: Elżbieta Zapendowska comments on the selection of the committee. “It’s hard”

On Monday (February 19), TVP announced that she was the Polish representative at Eurovision she stayed Aleksandra Wielgomashiding under a pseudonym Glow. As revealed on eurowizja.org, the decision to select the Polish woman for Eurovision was made by a five-person jury. It included: Kasia Moś, Piotr Klatt, Michał Hanczak, Konrad Szczęsny and Łukasz Pieter.

The jurors selected 10 items and gave them points on a scale from 1 to 10. It turned out that Luna’s proposal – “The Tower” (listen) – received 34 points, a Justyna Steczkowska with the number “WITCH-ER Tarohoro” 33 points. They took third place in the voting – with the same result – Marcin Maciejczak and Dagadana and Kayah a song from the movie “Chłopi”.

Shortly after announcing the decision and appearing in “Pytanie na breakfast”, Luna had the opportunity to talk to Paulina Sawicka with RMF FM. She revealed the first behind-the-scenes information about what she was planning at Eurovision.

“I feel absolute joy and absolute happiness. I must admit that it has been a huge dream of mine for many years to go to this competition, but until the last moment I did not expect that it would be me and that it would be now,” she said.

“I didn’t believe it until the last moment. Only now have we left ‘Question for Breakfast’ and only now, when I saw some articles, did I realize that there was no change, there was no going back,” she added.

Among the opinions about the new Polish representative at Eurovision, there was also a statement Elżbieta Zapendowska. The respected trainer has been considered the best voice emission specialist in Poland for years. She is undoubtedly also the most popular person in this profession, because we have seen her many times on screens, not only in “Idol”but also “How They Sing” and “Must be the music”. The juror is known for her sharp tongue and openly saying what she thinks.

It was no different when assessing the commission’s voting results. “It’s a pity it’s not Justyna, but it’s too bad,” she said in an interview with party.pl. Zapendowska supported the 51-year-old singer from the very beginning. “Yes, but it must have been different,” she admitted.

Glow (his real name is Alexander Bigmass and at the beginning of her career she performed under her own name and surname) has performed duets with Eurovision rivals: Justyna Steczkowska (“Not my dream”) i Marcin Maciejczak (“I’m not asking for more”). As she admitted in an interview with K-Mag, her nickname was created due to the strong influence of the moon that the singer feels in her life. Moreover, she admitted that she sometimes sleepwalks.

The singer was born on August 28, 1999 in Warsaw, and from an early age she was interested in music. She studied at PSM 1st degree. Tadeusz Baird in Grodzisk Mazowiecki (violin class), and in 2018 she started studies in artes liberales at the University of Warsaw.

Her serious professional steps began with cooperation with the Kayax label in 2018 as part of the “My Name is New” project, which was also when her debut single “On the hills of anxiety” was created. In June 2019, her single “Zastyga” was released, and the same year she performed, among others, during the Pol’and’Rock Festival.

In February 2020, thanks to cooperation with Michał “Fox” Król, the song “Luna” was created, heralding the singer’s new artistic path. Then she released the songs “Serca przemokną” and “Zgaś”.

In April 2022, the artist released her debut album “Nocne zmory”. – Singing in English makes it easier to go abroad. That’s why I decided to release this EP and that’s why I create in both Polish and English. With this English-language material, I want to open up to foreign markets – said Luna in an interview with Interia.