“Wars For Nothing” made it into the top ten on Tuesday evening at the competitions’s semi-finals, out of a sixteen-member field on the basis of a combination of points given by the professional jury and the audience.

The anti-war song was written by the performer together with fellow Hungarians Áron Sebestyén and Sára Heléne Bori. “I believe this subject can be a very important message also on the stage of the Eurovision Song Contest and it is good that Hungary is able to represent itself with a song like this, I’m proud of it”, the singer told the state news agency MTI in an earlier interview.

The Eurovision Song Contest was organised for the first time in 1956 and Hungary has been participating in the event since the early 1990s. The best-ever Hungarian showing was put on by Friderika Bayer in 1994, who came fourth in Dublin; last year, Hungary’s András Kállay-Saunders finished in fifth position with his song “Running”.

Source: hungarytoday.hu

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