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Eliot Vassamillet (born 29 December 2000) is a Belgian singer who represented Belgium at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel and failed to qualify for the grand final.[1][2] He was selected internally with the song "Wake Up" written by Pierre Dumoulin, who previously wrote "City Lights" for singer Blanche, which placed 4th in Eurovision Song Contest 2017, and Vassamillet himself.

In 2018, he appeared on season 7 of The Voice Belgique, being coached by Slimane Nebchi.[1][2]

The Voice Belgique

Eliot Vassamillet participated in the seventh season of The Voice Belgique, in the auditions he performed High Hopes prompting Slimane and Vitaa to turn. Vassamillet chose to be part of Slimane's team.

In the duels, Vassamillet was paired against Paak Kormongkolkul and they sang Mad World. Vassamillet won the duel and went through to the live shows while Kormongkolkul was stolen by Vitaa and continued in the show.

In the live shows, Vassamillet performed Alter Ego the public did not choose to send Vassamillet through to the final and he was not saved by his coach therefore Vassamillet left the show at this stage.[3]

Eurovision Song Contest 2019

Following Israel's victory at Eurovision 2018 with its singer Netta, it was announced that the 2019 edition of the competition would be held in the city of Tel Aviv[4]

On 14 January 2019 Télépro published an article rumouring that Eliot Vassamillet a student from Mons has been selected to represent Belgium in the competition [5]

The following day RTBF officially confirmed that Eliot Vassamillet would represent Belgium in the upcoming competition. It was announced that the song would be written by Pierre Demoulin the lead singer of Belgian rock group Шаблон:Ill. Vassamillet stated that he and Demoulin wrote the song together.[6] RTBF stated that the song wouldn't be revealed until February however, later that day ESCkaz reported that the song would be titled Wake Up[7]

On 28 February 2019 it was officially confirmed that Vassamillet would perform "Wake Up" in Tel Aviv, Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019.[8]

At the contest he was drawn to perform in the first semi-final where he placed 13th with 70 points. As he did not place in the top ten, he did not progress to the Grand Final of the competition, marking the second time in a row that Belgium failed to qualify after Sennek placed 12th a year earlier.[9]

Discography

Albums

Title Details
Mixtape n°1
  • Released: 11 February 2022[10]
  • Formats: Digital download, streaming

Extended plays

Title Details
Where Everything Begins
  • Released: 27 July 2022[11]
  • Formats: Digital download, streaming
  • Label: 3475460 Records DK

Singles

Title Year Peak chart positions Album or EP
BEL
(FL)

[12]
BEL
(WA)

[12]
"Wake Up" 2019 35 27 rowspan="5" Шаблон:N/a
"Find A Way" 2021
"Sad (run)" 2022
"Late At Night"
"Chosen"
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released.

References

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