LIAMOO and Klara Hammarström release Sweden’s official song for the Winter Olympics
Melodifestivalen 2022 participants LIAMOO and Klara Hammarström will join forces before competing against each other. They will perform Sweden’s official song for the Winter Olympics. The song “Gold, sweat & tears” (Gold, sweat and tears) will be released on Friday 21 January.
This is not the first time LIAMOO and Klara have been working on a song together. Last year they released a Christmas song “Wish for something” together. It reports Aftonbladet that for Klara Hammarström, who is a former competition rider and competed for the national team, it was obvious to say yes when she was asked to perform the song.
It’s so much more than just a song. It’s fun to be a voice for our athletes. I myself have dreamed of competing in the Olympics and this is almost as close as you can get, but in music.
Klara Hammarström
LIAMOO says that the song is “sporty and fresh with a lot of energy”. The song is written by SAMI, who also this year competes in the Melodifestivalen in a duo Medina, together with Anderz Wrethov and Jimmy “Joker” Thörnfeldt, who have both written several songs for Melodifestivalen and Eurovision over the years.
LIAMOO will compete in the Melodifestivalen 2022 with the song “Bluffin ‘” and will perform in the second semifinal of the competition. Previously, LIAMOO has participated in Sweden’s national competition twice, 2018 and 2019 in a duet with Hanna Ferm. Klara Hammarström returns to the competition for the third year in a row. Last year she competed with “Beat of Broken Hearts” and finished sixth in the final. In 2020, she failed to qualify for the finals with “Nobody”. This year she will sing “Run to the Hills” in the fourth semifinal of the competition.
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