{"id":19306,"date":"2019-05-18T16:15:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T00:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/duncan-laurence-from-the-netherlands-wins-eurovision-2019\/"},"modified":"2019-05-18T16:15:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T00:15:57","slug":"duncan-laurence-from-the-netherlands-wins-eurovision-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/duncan-laurence-from-the-netherlands-wins-eurovision-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Duncan Laurence From The Netherlands Wins Eurovision 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Singer Duncan Laurence<\/a> from the Netherlands has emerged victorious at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. The finals were held Saturday night in Tel Aviv, Israel.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old Laurence won the international competition with a song called “Arcade,” which he co-wrote. The song is a sweet, emotional ballad that stands in contrast to Israeli singer Netta’s wacky “Toy,”<\/a> which won in 2018.<\/p>\n

Laurence, whose real name is Duncan de Moor, participated in the Dutch version of “The Voice” in 2014. He’s also been writing for other performers, including the K-pop band TVXQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In all, 41 countries started out in this year’s competition. The 26 finalists’ songs included a number of power ballads alongside Duncan’s, as well as perky, anodyne pop from artists like the Czech Republic’s Lake Malawi and Denmark’s Leonora; and aspiring club bangers from the artist Tamta, the singer representing Cyprus, and Belarus’ Zena, among many others.<\/p>\n

But because this is Eurovision, where camp appeal often outweighs other factors, there was also Serhat<\/a> \u2014 a dentist turned-television impresario-turned singer, who channels Leonard Cohen at the disco and represented tiny San Marino \u2014 and Iceland’s Hatari, which describes itself as an “anti-capitalist performance art group<\/a> inspired by BDSM and anti-authoritarian dystopic aesthetics.”<\/p>\n

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Hatari reportedly “tested the patience” of the European Broadcasting Union, which mounts Eurovision, in the week leading up to the finals by repeatedly speaking out<\/a> against the Israeli government. <\/p>\n