Vesna will represent the Czech Republic at Eurovision in Liverpool in May. With the song My Sister’s Crown, she won the Czech round on Tuesday, in which singers Markéta Irglová and Pam Rabbit were also trying to advance to Eurovision. The group will compete with performers from 36 other countries at the competition. “With the four languages in the song, we wanted to pay tribute to the Slavic peoples,” group member Patricia Fuxová explains to Radiožurnál.
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How would you introduce the Vesna group?
Patricia Fuxová: Vesna is a female band that prides itself on being inspired by folklore motifs. Thus, listeners can perceive Slavic roots in various songs. At the same time, it’s a band full of women, so sisterhood and cohesion definitely play a key role for us.
The song with which you will represent the Czech Republic at Eurovision is called My Sister’s Crown. What is it about?
Bára Šťstková: It is about all the people who experience some kind of unfreedom, like oppression from society, trends, technology, and it is such a symbol for these people to put on a crown and feel strong enough.
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In recent years, we have been represented at Eurovision by songs sung only in English. But it’s not like that with you.
Patricia Fuxová: It isn’t. The song combines exactly four languages. As the author, I wanted the Czech language to dig the song, because I think that it makes sense to preserve the Czech language in a world competition and to have enough self-confidence to stand up in a foreign context.
But of course we will also find English there to connect the individual nations. And there is also Ukrainian, because this year’s Eurovision is dedicated as a tribute to Ukraine. And there’s also Bulgarian, because our original member Tanita is Bulgarian, so we wanted to include and pay tribute to other Slavic peoples as well.
So this is such a pride, a tribute to the Czech language?
Patricia Fuxová: Certainly.
You are a six-member band, the Czechia has never sent such a big one to Eurovision. It will probably be difficult weeks, now to prepare everything.
Patricia Fuxová: It will probably be challenging, we will be going through it for the first time, so we don’t quite know what awaits us yet. It is already clear to us that we will have to go through individual choreographic rehearsals, voice preparations, that we will have to prepare the stage and the concept of the performance.
Thanks to the fact that we are working with an amazingly creative team, for example the choreographer Zuzana Zizoe Vesela, and I think we will be working with Matyáš Vorda from Czech Television on the stage design, so we know that we will definitely be in the hands of professionals.
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