"Tout l'univers" (; ) is a song by Swiss singer

Gjon's Tears Gjon Muharremaj (; born 29 June 1998), known professionally as Gjon's Tears or Kev Bush due to his performance style being similar to "Kate Bush", is a Swiss singer and songwriter. He was scheduled to represent Switzerland in the Eurovision Son ...

released as a

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on 10 March 2021 by Jo & Co and

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. It was written and composed by the singer himself alongside Nina Sampermans, Wouter Hardy and Xavier Michel. The song represented Switzerland in the

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, the Netherlands, after being internally selected by the

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(SRG SSR). The song finished in 3rd place, receiving 432 points, the best result for Switzerland since 1993. It also won the Composer Award in the 2021 edition of the

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, voted on by a panel of participating composers in the 2021 contest.

Release and promotion

"Tout l'univers" was made available for digital download and

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by Jo & Co and

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on 10 March 2021. The accompanying

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premiered on the official

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channel of the

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simultaneously with the digital release on 10 March 2021 at 16:00 (

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At Eurovision

Internal selection

On 20 March 2020, SRG SSR confirmed that

would represent Switzerland in the 2021 contest.

Rotterdam

The 65th edition of the

took place in

, the Netherlands and consisted of two semi-finals on 18 May and 20 May 2021, and the grand final on 22 May 2021. According to the Eurovision rules, all participating countries, except the host nation and the " Big Five", consisting of , , , and the , are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals to compete for the final, although the top 10 countries from the respective semi-final progress to the grand final. On 17 November 2020, it was announced that Switzerland would be performing in the second half of the second semi-final of the contest.

At The 2022 Winter Olympics

The track was used by Georgian figure skater

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in his short program for 2021–2022 season, which was also presented at

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Track listing

Charts

Release history

External links

Tout l'univers
(lyrics and translation)

References

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