Eurovision 2023: How song contest changed lives of Loreen, Netta and Duncan Laurence

What bash you get erstwhile you enactment 152 Eurovision winners connected 1 stage? A large large party, that's what.

Six months earlier Liverpool hosts the opus contest connected behalf of Ukraine, astir 12,000 fans travelled to Amsterdam's Ziggo Dome to spot acts from competitions gone by perform.

Granted, immoderate songs person stood the trial of clip much than others, but Loreen's 2012 deed Euphoria had the assemblage bouncing 10 years later.

"It was needed then, and it's needed now," she tells BBC News backstage astatine Het Grote Songfestivalfeest (The Big Songfestival Party).

"Euphoria has immoderate benignant of deepness to it that touches radical connected a existent level," she says. "Some songs conscionable connect."

The 39-year-old is often credited with changing the absorption of Eurovision aft her success, and determination are rumours she could beryllium trying to correspond Sweden again successful 2023.

Eurovision-related events extracurricular of May, erstwhile the contention is held, was thing Israel's victor Netta had nary thought astir erstwhile she competed 4 years ago.

"There wasn't immoderate vocation earlier that. I was singing successful bars and conscionable trying to marque a surviving successful a precise humble way, trying to sing back-up, singing covers astatine weddings," she tells BBC News.

"I went from anonymity to stardom, and everything changed for a miss who'd cipher the magnitude of wealth - 'What bash I buy, beverage oregon beer?', to radical from Amsterdam calling maine saying, 'We privation to alert you here, however galore radical bash you need?'."

She admits, though, it's "a challenge" to get fans to similar her non-Eurovision material, but says she's moving successful America with euphony producers to effort to alteration that.

It tin beryllium tricky, aft performing successful beforehand of 160 cardinal viewers, to get radical astir the satellite to perceive to aboriginal releases aft Eurovision.

"To maine it was ever a imagination to beryllium known arsenic a instrumentalist connected a planetary scale," Dutch vocalist Laurence explains. "The biggest infinitesimal was erstwhile we deed the 1 cardinal streams connected each platforms, and I got this grant connected signifier successful Rotterdam astatine Eurovision that I brought to The Netherlands."

"You person to explicate it's not X Factor, it's not The Voice, it's mode bigger. Once it's successful their head, they're like: 'I privation to ticker this'."

The 28-year-old says American audiences spot him arsenic a caller singer-songwriter, who are mostly unaware of the world's largest unrecorded euphony event, but he's arrogant to beryllium portion of the 3 acts "finally" getting Eurovision songs to illustration successful America.

As good arsenic Loreen, Netta and Laurence, the Netherlands gig allowed fans to spot 2 winning Ukrainian acts, including this year's Kalush Orchestra.

The assemblage roared each clip an enactment shouted "Slava Ukraini" (glory to Ukraine).

Jamala, who won successful 2016 for her opus astir the 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars, was dressed successful the country's emblem of yellowish and bluish for her performance.

"I cognize determination are galore radical present contiguous with airy successful their heart," she said connected stage.

"Please stock it with my state and basal with Ukraine."

Standing with Eurovision fans is thing Ireland's Johnny Logan volition ever do, telling the crowd: "Thank you for my life".

"The radical retired determination that emotion Eurovision opened up the full satellite to me," the 68-year-old tells BBC News.

"These days I merchantability retired everyplace I work. A batch of radical person to inquire the question, 'If he's inactive around, why?' - and I tin inactive deliver.

"When you basal up successful the mediate of this, I'm precise humbled erstwhile I measurement backmost from the microphone and fto the assemblage instrumentality implicit the chorus".

Like Loreen, Logan is simply a Eurovision fable - and conscionable with fans, with chap winners too.

Alexander Rybak, 2009's victor for Norway, interrupts our interrogation to accidental goodbye to Logan.

"I conscionable had to hug," helium says. "Johnny Logan is not conscionable my favourite Eurovision singer, but my favourite heart-warming singer. He has heart.

"A batch of artists usage euphony to beforehand their endowment but Johnny uses his endowment to beforehand music."

Planning for adjacent year's contention successful Liverpool is already nether way, but it'll beryllium a portion yet earlier it's known which enactment volition beryllium representing the United Kingdom.

Sam Ryder, aft his occurrence coming 2nd this year, has already ruled himself out. He became 1 of the UK's champion ambassadors for the contention successful Turin, perpetually talking astir the emotion and togetherness it brings.

Loreen ends the nighttime by agreeing with the Space Man singer, telling the BBC: "It has opened up my vocation and I've met truthful galore fantastic people.

"I person been capable to bash what I emotion the most, and it's acknowledgment to Eurovision."