"Requiem" is a song performed by French singer

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. The song was released as a digital download on 13 January 2017 through

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as the second single from her debut studio album '' Ma peau aime'', and was written by

Nazim Khaled Nazim Khaled (born September 3, 1986) is a French singer-songwriter. He has written several successes for different artists like Kendji Girac, Amir, Claudio Capéo and Alma. Biography Khaled was born in Marseille and studied at the Conserv ...

. It represented France in the

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. The Eurovision version of the song was revealed on 11 March 2017.

Eurovision Song Contest

On 9 February 2017, Alma was announced as the French representative to the

, with the song "Requiem". As France is a member of the " Big Five", she automatically advanced to the final, held on 13 May 2017 in

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, Ukraine. It was discovered during the week of 17 February 2017 that the artist's song had been recorded and performed prior to the EBU's submission deadline, 1 September 2016, which therefore violated the EBU's song submission policy. Further research shows that Alma's song was performed at the end of January 2015. While the French broadcaster had claimed they were not in breach of the EBU's submission rules, there had been no ultimate decision regarding the disqualification of France 2 from the contest up until then. It was reported on 21 February 2017 that Alma and her crew were in the production of a bilingual version of her song—the two languages being French and English—which implies that the act has ultimately not been disqualified from the contest.

Track listing

;Other Versions *7th Heaven Remix

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