{"id":118135,"date":"2026-08-20T19:56:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T19:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/118135\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T19:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T19:56:24","slug":"switzerland-opens-applications-for-eurovision-2027-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/118135\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland opens applications for Eurovision 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787255784_443_e48c5945da3d1b080a98a32afc1da91f2ac27281-91926282.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"Switzerland opens applications for Eurovision 2027\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Switzerland opens applications for Eurovision 2027            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>        From this Thursday, artists can submit their songs to represent Switzerland at the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest, which will be held in Bulgaria. The application period runs until September 7.\n<\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        August 20, 2026 &#8211; 13:57\n<\/p>\n<p>Entries can be submitted via an online platform. The selection process will be based on an internal procedure combining the assessments of national and international expert juries and a fan jury. Furthermore, Lasse Nymann, the new musical director of the Swiss Eurovision delegation, is responsible for the wider search for artists and songs.<\/p>\n<p>+ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/culture\/eurovision-song-contest-continues-to-benefit-basel-a-year-on\/91314775\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eurovision Song Contest continues to benefit Basel a year on<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cVeronica Fusaro, Zo\u00eb M\u00eb, Nemo, Gjon\u2019s Tears: despite the differences between these artists who have represented Switzerland, they all have one thing in common \u2013 they have graced the Eurovision stage with their own artistic style. That is exactly what we are looking for once again for 2027,\u201d says Yves Schifferle, head of the Swiss delegation.<\/p>\n<p>Eurovision is the world\u2019s biggest showcase for pop music. Swiss public television sees the contest as a way to promote Swiss music abroad, the press release continues. The motto is \u201cBe yourself \u2013 maximised for Eurovision\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>+\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/about-us\/how-swissinfo-produces-news-in-english\/91695684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">How we produce English news<\/a><br \/>Translated from French, reviewed by an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/department\/english-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">English Department<\/a>\u00a0journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Switzerland opens applications for Eurovision 2027 Keystone-SDA From this Thursday, artists can submit their songs to represent Switzerland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,98,1918,3933,100,103,102,17],"class_list":["post-118135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-article","tag-beat-culture","tag-culture","tag-human-interest","tag-latest-news","tag-production-type-deepl-autotranslation","tag-sda-ready-to-publish","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117129601882539403","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}