Claude performed his song C’est La Vie on television for the first time on Saturday at Eva, and for a small audience. The singer will be taking the French-English song to the Eurovision Song Contest in Basel.
Claude performed while walking through the corridors of Eva. At the end, he stood in the rain with a group of dancers. He sang the song in tune, although he was a bit nervous.
At the beginning of the broadcast, Claude said that he was a bit nervous about performing the song to an audience. “I actually didn’t have any tension until I saw all these people sitting there and thought: oh, there will be a lot more of them soon.”
The singer gave a little hint of his Eurovision performance: he will be dancing. He did not want to give any more details about the choreography for C’est La Vie.
The Eva broadcast focused on the first time that Claude watched the Eurovision Song Contest. That was in 2014, when Conchita Wurst won. A very small part of that winning song can be heard in the clip of C’est La Vie.
Wurst had come to the studio especially for Claude. The Austrian artist sang Rise Like a Phoenix and gave Claude a tip: “Don’t party. There will be time for that later.”
Claude’s mother was seen in the broadcast in a previously recorded interview. She said that she is proud of her son. In an interview with NU.nl, she said earlier that she thinks that C’est La Vie tells very well what she taught her children: that life sometimes takes strange turns, but you have to keep going. “I always told my children: one day it will be okay.”
Eva’s broadcast was a special one: normally the AVROTROS program is on from Monday to Thursday. Due to the World Cup distances, there was no broadcast on Thursday and the Claude special was recorded.
The first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Basel – Claude will appear on stage – is on May 13. The second semi-final is two days later and the final is on Saturday 17 May. Nu.nl reports from Basel and follows Claude closely. Source: nu.nl
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