The UK's Eurovision 2023 act Mae Muller was born in the same year the UK last won the song contest - 1997 - signed with her manager while working in a pub and shot a DIY music video from her dad's bathroom. Sky News takes a look at the backstory of the Eurovision hopeful.
Singer-songwriter Mae Muller has been announced as the UK's entrant for Eurovision 2023, picking up the baton from Sam Ryder who stormed to second place in 2022.
She wrote her first proper song aged 19. She was on a train from Cornwall to London and the wi-fi wasn't working - so she opened the Notes app on her phone and started writing about the boy she was seeing. She credits Prince and Sade as her early musical influences, and says Gwen Stefani, Florence Welch and Lily Allen have all inspired her in more recent years.In 2019, Muller supported Little Mix on their LM5 tour, an experienceShe explained:"It was such a confidence boost for me... I was actually quite surprised at how quickly I got into it. The first show I was like, I can't do this, I'm so scared, but by the third show I was just walking out there like, bring it on.
She released the single I Don't Want Your Money during lockdown, using a painted wall as a green screen for the music video and filming parts of it in the bathroom.Muller will be singing I Wrote A Song - a catchy dance track about a cheating ex-boyfriend.
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