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"Delta Goodrem will represent Australia at Eurovision in May, the 70th
anniversary of the annual song contest.
The 41-year-old singer – one of the country’s best-loved and bestselling pop
stars – heralds a shift in Australia’s Eurovision selections, which have been
smaller breakout acts and genre pioneers. She is the 11th entrant since
Australia joined the competition in 2015 and will represent the country in
Vienna, Austria.
“Eurovision is a … natural love for me,” Goodrem says, pointing to the two
greatest influences in her life: Olivia Newton-John and Céline Dion, “who have
both been on the Eurovision stage”.
To be chosen, she says, feels like “a celebration” – of a career which has
leapt from milestone to milestone and cemented her in Australian pop history.
She signed her first record deal at 15 before releasing her debut album,
Innocent Eyes, which remains the second-highest selling Australian album and,
by statistical estimates, graced one in every four Australian households when
it was released in 2003.
In the intervening decades, she has released six more albums, judged eight
seasons of
The Voice Australia, played Newton-John in a biopic of the star,
toured globally, started her own charity and spent one brief stint on stage as
Cats’ grand dame Grizabella. Even though Eurovision has been “circling” her
for a few years, the prospect has been waylaid by other projects.
It wasn’t until 2025, during a limited run of anniversary shows for her second
album,
Mistaken Identity, that the suggestion became feasible. When she got
the official call-up later that year it felt like fate.
“I was really like … ‘This is meant to be the timing,’” she says. “This is the
alignment. Let’s do it.”"
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