About
Quick Facts
Name
Michaja Nicolaï
Born
07 March 1996
Nationality
🇳🇱 Dutch
National Selection
Internal selection 2023
In Eurovision
2023 Liverpool
Song
Burning Daylight (& Dion Cooper, 2023)
Biography
Mia Nicolai is a Dutch singer. She was born in Amsterdam of a Russian mother and a Dutch father.
Mia attended music school in London, and moved to Melbourne after that. Back in Amsterdam, she released a song called “At last”. Mia currently lives in Los Angeles, where she released two singles in 2020: “Set me free” and “Mutual needs”. She created a lyric video vor “Set me free”, while She also released a 3 episode documentary about herself. In 2021, the songs were followed by “People pleaser”, a cooperation with Jordan Garfield, the boyfriend and partner of Duncan Laurence. The song got the support of Billboard. On 18 May 2022, she stated on Instagram “6 months from now a project very very dear to me will be out in the world and it’s gonna blow the f upppp!”. Half a year later, it was announced that she and Dion Cooper are going to represent the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest. Their song was “Burning daylight”. It was a difficult path to the final, as performances in Madrid and Amsterdam were not good. Shortly before Eurovision, the song was made 1 1/2 octave higher to fit it to their voices. It didn’t help, Mia and Dion didn’t make it to the final.
Entries
Burning Daylight (With Dion Cooper)
Country
🇳🇱 The Netherlands
Year
2023
Language
English
Lyrics
Duncan Laurence
Jordan Garfield
Mia Nicolaï
Dion Cooper
Loek van der Grinten
Music
Duncan Laurence
Jordan Garfield
Mia Nicolaï
Dion Cooper
Loek van der Grinten
Backings
Rachell Melanie
Katie van Steenis
Kris Rietveld
Results Semi
Points: 7
Position: 13
Running order: 14
Results Finals
Points: –
Position: –
Running order: –