KEiiNO won tonight’s Melodi Grand Prix in Spektrum Arena in Oslo, thereby earning the right to represent Norway at Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv in May with “Spirit In The Sky”.
The international juries
Ten international juries helped decide the four songs that went on to the gold final. Surprisingly, only Israel awarded its flag to eventual winners KEiiNO. We only got to know the favorite from each country, and the result was as follows:
- Italy – Holla
- Georgia – Mr.Unicorn
- Spain – Mr.Unicorn
- Danmark – En livredd mann
- Portugal – The Bubble
- Switzerland – The Bubble
- Macedonia – Mr.Unicorn
- Ireland – Mr.Unicorn
- Hungary – The Bubble
- Israel – Spirit In the Sky
The Gold Final
- Adrian – The Bubble
- Anna-Lisa Kumoji – Holla
- KEiiNO – Spirit In the Sky
- D’Sound – Mr.Unicorn
The Gold Duel
- Adrian – The bubble
- KEiiNO – Spirit In the Sky
Melodi Grand Prix 2019
Tonight’s show started with Alexander Rybak performing a mash-up of “That’s How You Write A Song” and “Fairytale”. He also managed to sneak in a couple of other Eurovision memories in his performance. At the end of the show, NRK paid hommage to twelve time MGP entrant and Eurovision 1997 participant Tor Endresen.
KEiiNO emerge victorious
Despite only picking up one top score from the international juries, KEiiNO were the ones to take the crown. The combination of English language pop and traditional joik was the favourite of the Norwegians. The joik singer of the group even thanked the audience in his native tongue Sami.
