Alessandra Mele
Acting
Biography
Alessandra Watle Mele (born 5 September 2002), known mononymously as Alessandra, is an Italian-Norwegian singer. She competed in the seventh season of The Voice – Norges beste stemme in 2022, reaching the live shows. She represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 with "Queen of Kings", which finished in 5th place at the grand final with 268 points. Her track peaked at number one in Norway and was a top ten hit in eleven countries. Mele was born on 5 September 2002 in Pietra Ligure, Savona to an Italian father from Albenga and a Norwegian mother from Stathelle, and grew up in Cisano sul Neva. At the age of twelve, she won the fifth edition of VB Factor, a local talent show in the Val Bormida region. After graduating from high school in 2019, she relocated to Norway and moved in with her maternal grandparents in Porsgrunn, before moving to Lillehammer to study at the Lillehammer Institute of Music Production and Industries. In 2022, Mele was a participant in the seventh season of The Voice – Norges beste stemme, the Norwegian version of the The Voice franchise. After her Blind Audition, she joined the team of coach Espen Lind. She was eliminated in the live shows. On 4 January 2023, Mele was announced as one of twenty-one artists to compete in Melodi Grand Prix 2023, the Norwegian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023. She performed her entry "Queen of Kings" in the first semi-final on 14 January 2023, and was among the three acts from that semi-final that qualified for the final on 4 February 2023. She went on to win the competition, receiving the most points from both the public and the international jury, thereby winning the right to represent Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool, United Kingdom.She performed in the semi-final on 9 May 2023 and qualified for the grand final. She finished fifth in the final. Mele participated as the duet partner of the Ghost in the fourth season of Maskorama. Description above from the Wikipedia, Free Encyclopedia.
Known For
The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.
Eurovision Song Contest
Dag Otto Lauritzen invites 14 celebrities to take part in a boot-camp style military competition. It portrays hard military discipline, daily tasks and competitions. The end goal is to make a better version of them self and to take parth in a 4 man end game mission. They will have to tackle stressful situations and have the courage to overcome their biggest fairs, phobias and show willpower when it really matters.
Celebrity Task Force
Get ready for Eurovision... A Little Bit More! The Eurovision spin-off show that features exclusive performances from the Liverpool 2023 participants. The ‘Class of ‘23’ were tasked to submit reworked or remixed versions of their Eurovision entries; original material; and cover versions of their favourite songs. The results are now in and will be introduced by a different Eurovision legend each week over the next three weeks in a series of one-hour shows.
Eurovision... A Little Bit More
This is the official podcast of the Eurovision Song Contest. Host and music journalist Steve Holden talks with famous guests, but also with the singers and artists who will compete for the title in May.