Ahead of her appearance at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 next month, France\u2019s Monroe has released a cover of the Swedish 2023 winning song \u201cTattoo\u201d.<\/p>\n
As part of Eurovision\u2019s \u201cA Little Bit More!\u201d series on YouTube, French representative Monroe has released\u00a0her cover of \u201cTattoo\u201d by Loreen. The song won the 2023 edition of the contest in Liverpool.<\/p>\n
Monroe will perform her song \u201cRegarde !\u201d in the Grand Final on May 16, and will also perform during the second semi-final on May 14.<\/p>\n
Who is Monroe?<\/p>\n
Monroe Vata Rigby, better known simply as Monroe, was born on November 19, 2008 in Salt Lake City in the United States. Her mother is French of Congolese descent and her father is American. She began singing after joining her church choir. She later learned to play piano.<\/p>\n
In 2024, Monroe competed in the eleventh season of\u00a0Prodiges, a France 2 show for classical dance and music. She won the show and received a scholarship for \u20ac10,000.<\/p>\n
Find out more about Monroe here:<\/p>\n
France in the Eurovision Song Contest+<\/p>\n
France was one of seven countries to participate in the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956. Since then, they have participated in every contest except 1974 and 1982. Their withdrawal in 1974 was caused by the death of President Georges Pompidou, while their withdrawal in 1982 was a result of TF1 declining to enter the contest. France has won the contest on five occasions, most recently in 1977, when Marie Myriam performed \u201cL\u2019oiseau et l\u2019enfant\u201d. France\u2019s best result of the 21st century came in 2021, when Barbara Pravi finished second in Rotterdam with \u201cVoil\u00e0\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of her appearance at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 next month, France\u2019s Monroe has released a cover…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,78629,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-416475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-headline","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}