Last week, it was revealed that 8 acts remained in the race to represent Austria in Eurovision 2025.
Ever since 2017, Austria has selected its Eurovision act internally.
Once again, the search and sorting will be led by ORF’s Eurovision scouts.
In recent years, Eberhard Forcher has led the project alongside Peter Schreiber.
The submission window closed on the 15th of September 2024.
The Eurovision 2025 entry will be selected through live auditions in multiple rounds.
The format involved ORF’s management, Eurovision fan clubs, and an expert jury.
Currently, 8 songs remain in consideration to represent Austria in Basel.
Lately, Austrian magazine kleinezeitung revealed a partial list of artists who might represent the country in Eurovision 2025.
Before diving into details, we will add a disclaimer: This isn’t an official report coming form ORF
kleinezeitung revealed the names of 5 artists who are likely to participate in the internal selection. It seems like 7 artists left in the race, one of them with 2 songs.
#1. Dominic “Dodo” Muhrer
Dominic isn’t a stranger to Eurovision. He represented Austria in Eurovision 2015 as the lead singer of The Makemakes with the song “I am Yours”.
Back then, they finished last in the final with 0 points.
#2.Nnoa (Christian Kerschner)
Nnoa has graduated from the Pop Academy in Mannheim.
Her genre can be classified as a mixture of pop and RnB.
She also participates in the music project DelaDap (which competed in the Austrian selection for Eurovision 2012).
In 2024, she submitted the song “UFO” to the internal selection for Eurovision 2024:
#3. Kayla Krystin (Michaela Rimml)
Kayla Krystin is a 29-year-old singer who has released 4 singles so far.
Her first 3 songs also made some noise in the USA and Australia.
You can listen to her latest release:
#4. Philip Piller
Philip Piller competed in “Starmania 21” (The same season where Teya and Salena competed).
He has submitted 2 songs to the internal selection, which has made the cut.
It seems he would like to sing in the German language.
6 years ago, he competed in “The Voice of Germany”. Earlier this year, he competed in “Die große Chance”.
You can watch one of his performances:
#5. Johannes Pietsch
Johannes Pietsch has also participated in “Starmania 21”.
In 2020, he competed in “The Voice of UK 2020“.
You can watch one of his performances here:
Kaleen represented Austria at Eurovision 2024 with the song “We Will Rave”.
She finished in 24th place with 24 points
Eurovision 2025 will be held in Basel, Switzerland on the 13th, 15th and 17th of May 2025
