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Women’s duo starts for Austria at the ESC
Salena (l) and Teya drive for Austria to the ESC in Liverpool. photo
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How can female songwriters assert themselves in the male-dominated music business? With this question, the duo Teya & Salena drove to the ESC in Liverpool.
The duo Teya & Salena will represent Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) with a danceable bass rhythm and a feminist message. The singers presented their song “Who the Hell is Edgar?” for the first time on Wednesday, International Women’s Day, on ORF.
The duo will compete in the second ESC semi-final in Liverpool on May 11. In the past three editions of the music competition, no Austrian song made it from the semifinals to the final.
In their ESC contribution, Teya & Salena pack their experiences as songwriters in a male-dominated industry. “It often feels like you have to prove yourself over and over again to be taken seriously. By portraying Edgar Allan Poe as the actual writer of the song, we want to draw attention to that part of the music business,” she said 22-year-old Teodora Spiric aka Teya.
Spiric and her singing partner Selina-Maria Edbauer (24) aka Salena met on the Austrian talent show “Starmania”. Edbauer also took part in “The Voice of Germany” in 2017.