{"id":13026,"date":"2026-04-26T16:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/13026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T16:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:28:11","slug":"%f0%9f%87%a7%f0%9f%87%aa-belgium-essyla-performs-for-jessie-j-eurovision-viewing-party-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/13026\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddea Belgium: Essyla Performs For Jessie J &#038; Eurovision Viewing Party Planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Essyla performed for Jessie J earlier this week, while her hometown is planning a viewing party for her performance at Eurovision 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian representative Essyla had the opportunity to perform for the British star Jessie J earlier this week after she attended her concert in Brussels. Essyla was in the audience for the concert in the Belgian capital, when she had the opportunity to talk to Jessie J and ended up performing \u201cDo It Like a Dude\u201d from the balcony to the singer. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, Essyla\u2019s hometown is backing her with the announcement of a public viewing event for Semi-Final One of Eurovision 2026. Perwez will hold an event putting the contest on a big screen so that friends, family and wellwishers can cheer her on as she competes for a place in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Essyla was internally selected by RTBF to represent Belgium at the 70th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. She will perform \u201cDancing on the Ice\u201d in slot 11 during the first semi-final on May 12. Find out more about Essyla here:<\/p>\n<p>Source: Essyla, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXj-jwsDU-w\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OGAE Belgium<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest+<\/p>\n<p>Belgium was one of the seven nations who participated in the first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1956. To date, the country has won the contest only once in 1986. Sandra Kim won the contest with the song \u201cJ\u2019aime la vie\u201d. Her victory was not without controversy when it emerged that Sandra was just 13 years old, two years younger than the age restriction at the time. In the late 00s, Belgium struggled in the contest, failing to reach the final annually from 2005 until 2010, when Tom Dice finished 6th in the final with 143 points. Belgium has finished last at the contest eight times, including two sets of nul points.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essyla performed for Jessie J earlier this week, while her hometown is planning a viewing party for her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,2221,1365],"class_list":{"0":"post-13026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-essyla","10":"tag-headline"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116471955811048260","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}