🇸🇪 Sweden: All details about Cornelia Jakob’s rehearsal
Cornelia Jakobs has performed her first rehearsal on the Eurovision 2022 stage in Turin for Sweden.
Today’s penultimate rehearsal comes from Cornelia Jakobs from Sweden. Much like her Melodifestivalen performance, she brings the same circular projection screen to the stage that glows green and red. Her outfit is also the same – a glittering silver top and black trousers. She has no shoes on stage, the second act we have seen do, so far. As for the show, Eurovision.tv describes it as “intimate and intense”.
A short clip of her first rehearsal can be found on TikTok below:
@Eurovision The right TikTok at the right time! It’s @Cornelia Jakob’s intimate and intense first rehearsal #Eurovision phase! # Eurovision2022 #EurovisionTikTok
Who is Cornelia Jakobs?
Anna Cornelia Jakobsdotter Samuelsson, also known as Cornelia Jakobs, was born on March 9, 1992 in Stockholm, Sweden. The singer made her music debut in 2008 when she auditioned for Swedish Idol. Her career took off a few years later when she joined Love Generation. The girl group participated in the Melodifestivalen 2011 and 2012, with the 2011 contribution “Dance Alone” which ended up on the Swedish lists.
Cornelia has written and composed a number of songs, including Efraim Leos Melodifestivalen 2021 song “Best of Me”. A year earlier, she composed and performed “Weight of The World”, the soundtrack to the HBO series Björnstad.
Image source: EBU / Nathan Reinds
Sweden debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1958 and has continued to be one of the competition’s most successful countries. The country has won the competition six times, the most recent was 2015. Sweden’s first victory came in 1974 when ABBA won the competition in Brighton with “Waterloo”. Since missing in the final in 2010, Sweden has finished third twice and won the competition twice, only in 2013 did the country end up outside the top 10 in the final.