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Tusse

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About

Quick Facts

Name
Tousin Chiza

Born
01 january 2001

Nationality
🇸🇪 Swedish

National Selection
Melodifestivalen 2021

In Eurovision
Rotterdam 2021

Song
Voices (2021)

Biography

Tusse is a Swedish/Congolese singer, born in the Democratic Republic of Congo. As a child, he fled to Sweden and applied for asylum there.

Chiza participated in Talang 2018 where he reached one of the semifinals. The following year, he took part in Idol 2019. Tusse won the contest and released the song “Rain”. He thus became the youngest male participant, the first dark-skinned participant and the first participant born in the 2000s in Swedish Idol’s history to win the competition.

In November 2019, Chiza’s version of Whitney Houston’s song “How Will I Know” was released. Tusse’s first single after Idol, “Innan du går”, which was also his first song in Swedish, was released.

In 2021, Tusse participated in Melodifestivalen, the Swedish preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest. His song “Voices” was the clear favourite from day 1 and won. The logical next step was representing Sweden in the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam.

In december 2021, Tusse presented his new single “Grow”.

 

Entries

Voices

Country
🇸🇪 Country

Year
2021

Language
English

Lyrics & Music
Joy Deb
Linnea Deb
Anderz Wrethov
Jimmy Thörnfeldt

Backings
Lars Säfsund

Dancers
Lamin Holmén
Keisha von Arnold
Fatou Bah
Timothy Kakeeto

Results Semi

Points: 142
Position: 7
Running order: 4

Results Finals

Points: 109
Position: 14
Running order: 25