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Cesár Sampson

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About

Quick Facts

Name
Cesár Sampson

Born
18 August 1983

Nationality
🇦🇹 Austrian

National Selection
Internal selection 2018

In Eurovision
2018 Lisbon

Song
Nobody But You (2018)

Biography

Cesár Sampson is an Austrian singer, songwriter, producer, dancer and model. He was born in Linz. Sampson worked as a social worker for years.
 
Cesár has worked in the music business as a producer for many years, including with the Symphonix International producer collective. He formed this team together with Borislav Milanov, Johan Alkenäs and Joacim Persson. The team was responsible for several Eurovision entries. As a backing vocal, Sampson was on stage at the Eurovision Song Contest twice in a row, in 2016 and 2017, representing Bulgaria.
 
In 2018 he was chosen to represent his home country Austria with the song “Nobody but you”. Sampson won the jury voting, and became 3rd overall.

In 2019, Sampson released a single “Stone cold”, followed by “Where are you” and in 2020 “Lazy suit”.

In the same year, he took part in the Austrian version of the show Dancing with the Stars, together with Cornelia Kreuter. The two reached a second place.

On March 15, 2021, Cesár Sampson was revealed as a cheeky rascal on The Masked Singer Austria.

Entries

Nobody But You

Country
🇦🇹 Austria

Year
2018

Language
English

Lyrics
Cesár Sampson
Borislav Milanov
Sebastian Arman
Joacim Persson
Johan Alkenäs

Music
Cesár Sampson
Borislav Milanov
Sebastian Arman
Joacim Persson
Johan Alkenäs

Backings
Rachelle Jeanty
Sandra Kurzweil
Sunay Balkan
Ricardo Soler da Costa
Francisco Perreira

Results Semi

Points: 231
Position: 4
Running order: 13

Results Finals

Points: 342
Position: 3
Running order: 5