"Keep On Walking" is a Swedish-English language hit sung by the Swedish singer

Salem Al Fakir Lars Salem Al Fakir (born 27 October 1981) is a Swedish musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He regularly collaborates with Vincent Pontare as the songwriting and production duo Vargas and Lagola. Together, they have worked with man ...

recorded in 2010. Both lyrics and music were written by Salem Al Fakir himself. He participated in the Swedish

Melodifestivalen 2010 Melodifestivalen 2010 was a Swedish song contest held between February and March 2010. It was the selection for the 50th song to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest, and was the 49th edition of Melodifestivalen. Five heats were held i ...

with "Keep On Walking" and finished first in the first semi-final in

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on February 6, 2010. The song was picked as a "wildcard finalist", progressing to the final in Stockholm on March 13, 2010 where it competed to represent Sweden in the

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, held in

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, Norway. Salem Al Fakir took part in the Melodifestivalen final on Saturday, March 13, 2010 at

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in Stockholm, in a bid to represent Sweden in

, held in

, Norway. He came in 2nd place overall as a runner up to the winning song by "This is My Life" by

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with a total of 183 points, to Bergendahl's 214. But Al Fakir received two sets of 12 points from the French and Norwegian juries and 10 points from the Russian and Serbian judges making him the clear international choice. He also got the maximum 12 points from Stockholm juries and sets of 10 points from Luleå, Umeå and Malmö juries and 17.1% (299,746 votes) from the televoting public to Bergendahl's 20.8% (363,546 votes).

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