Eurovision teases Caribbean announcement for this 12 months’s contest

Eurovision organisers have teased an obvious Caribbean look at this 12 months’s contest.

“New Year! New News!” they introduced, in a message shared with greater than 1.3 million followers by way of the official Instagram web page, alongside a clip exhibiting crystal clear waters and golden seashores.

“We’re thrilled to verify that THE CARIBBEAN is coming to the Eurovision Song Contest 2024,” the put up mentioned. “Stay tuned, we can’t wait to tell you more.”

The 2024 occasion takes place in Malmo in Sweden, with Olly Alexander recently announced as the UK’s act.

Could he be going through competitors from a Caribbean entrant? No additional particulars have been given, however Eurovision followers have been fast to level out the apparent upon seeing the teaser.

“It’s Eurovision not Worldvision,” replied one.

“I must have been too busy sipping virtual coconut water to catch the exact moment when the Caribbean decided to swing by Europe,” wrote one other.

“There are so many countries in the Caribbean,” one other responded.

So it isn’t a rustic. And it is positively not in Europe. But, that hasn’t stopped Eurovision organisers earlier than.

In 2015, having broadcast the competitors since 1983, Australia (additionally positively not in Europe) was invited to affix the social gathering to commemorate Eurovision’s sixtieth anniversary.

It was imagined to be a one-off, however the Aussies went on to contribute in subsequent years – with contestant Dami Im ending as runner-up in 2016 along with her tune, Sound Of Silence.

Morocco additionally competed in 1980.

But as one follower identified: “There’s a lot of European territories in the Caribbean so maybe they’re announcing that a Caribbean artist is representing a European country?”

Sky News has contacted Eurovision organisers for extra info. Watch this area.