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Eurovision Song Contest 2023

Mahmood makes "Image" his own: the audience in religious silence explodes in the finale

The touching performance of the singer-songwriter from Milan: the first Italian to be invited as a guest out of competition at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023

14/05/2023

Excited, on a stage already known in Tel Aviv and Turin, Mahmood returns to the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 as a guest: the first Italian to be invited as a guest out of competition in an edition abroad. Sing "Imagine", the hymn to peace: the iconic song by John Lennon. And he does it in his own way, with his voice: unique. As in a bubble, the performance is deliberately respectful, accompanied by the BBC Philharmonic orchestra. It begins and ends in the same way, what changes is the response of the public that from the religious silence is unleashed in a roar of acclamation.