Who is Mae Muller, the UK's Eurovision Song Contest 2023 entry
09.03.2023 - 17:49
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Mae Muller has been confirmed as the UK’s entrant for the Eurovision Song Contest in May and will be hoping to build on Sam Ryder’s success at last year’s event.
The north London-raised vocalist, 25, will be the first female entrant for the UK since SuRie competed in 2018 with Storm – coming 24th. Like Ryder, Muller is not new to the music industry, having released her debut single Close in 2018 and climbing the charts with the 2021 song Better Days after it went viral on TikTok.
Here is all you need to know about the singer ahead of the 2023 song contest in Liverpool. Muller was born in 1997 in Kentish Town, north London, and has described herself as a natural performer from a young age.
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Last year she told the Golden Plectrum website her aunt is a music video director and she used to spend afternoons as a runner for chart-topping artists such as Labrinth. Muller was 19 when she wrote her first song, Close, which was produced by a family friend and “paid” for with wine in lieu of money.
Once uploaded to Soundcloud, the song attracted the attention of record labels and she signed to Capitol. Speaking about her late start, she previously said: “I feel really lucky that in a way I’ve lived a relatively normal life.”
Muller says she inherited a love of Prince and Sade from her parents, with both artists played often around the house. It was only later when she discovered Gwen Stefani and the No Doubt star’s debut solo album Love Angel Music Baby, released in 2004, that she began to develop her own tastes.
Florence + The Machine and Lily Allen were also early favourites and would shape her own songwriting in future years.
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