Artist Profile
Artist: Montaigne (Jessica Cerro)
Date of Birth: 14 August 1995
Hometown: Sydney, Australia
Selection Method: Internal Selection
Song: Technicolour
Composer: Jessica Cerro, Dave Hammer
Producer: Dave Hammer
Eurovision Result: DNQ (14th Semi Final 1)

Montaigne is an Australian art pop singer-songwriter-musician. Her debut album, Glorious Heights, peaked at No. 4 on the ARIA Albums Chart. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2016 she won Breakthrough Artist for the album and was nominated for three other categories. In April 2016 she was a featured vocalist on Hilltop Hoods’ track, “1955”, which reached No. 2 on the ARIA Singles Chart. She was supposed to represent Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with her song “Don’t Break Me”, until the contest was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 2 April 2020, it was announced that she would represent Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021.
Song Lyrics
I wanna be close to my mother
I wanna belong to the world
A mirror that shows technicolour
I’d be a magnificent girl
But everything is frustrating
Everything moves along faster than I can relate to
But I got power, yeah
Midnight is the hour, yeah
Time to take off your cloaks
Techni-technicolour, techni-technicolour
If we stand together we can do whatever
Techni-technicolour, techni-technicolour
If we care for one another, we can
I wanna know that there’s a futurе
That I can move myself towards
And yet, I promisе you, yes, all you nasty dudes
I don’t need certainty to get my pot of gold, no
Everything is frustrating
Everything moves along faster than I can relate to
But we got grace, yeah
We got style and lasers, yeah
Time to take off your cloaks
Techni-technicolour, techni-technicolour
If we stand together we can do whatever
Techni-technicolour, techni-technicolour
If we care for one another, we can
Shine, shine, shine, shine
Techni-technicolour (Technicolour), techni-technicolour (Technicolour)
If we stand together we can do whatever (We can do whatever)
Techni-technicolour, techni-technicolour
If we care for one another, we can shine, Hey
Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest
Debut: 2015
Appearances: 5
Finals: 5
Best Result: 2nd (2016)
Top 10:
2015 – Guy Sebastian – Tonight Again, 5th place
2016 – Dami Im – Sound of Silence, 2nd Place
2017 – Isaiah Firebrace – Don’t Come Easy, 9th Place
2019 – Kate Miller-Heidke – Zero Gravity, 9th Place
Marcel Benzençon Awards:
2016 – Composer Award
2019 – Artistic Award
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