The Eurovision 2025 Second Semi-Final is just around the corner; let's find out (ooh aah) a little bit more about the artists who’ll be performing.

We know the Eurovision class of 2025 can sing and dance and put on a show. But what else do we need to know about them? We present you with a succinct selection of facts about - just enough to leave your friends quietly impressed at your Eurovision knowledge.

Who’s obsessed with broccoli, and who owns... 150 sheep?! Let's take a look...

🇦🇺 Australia | Go-Jo – Milkshake Man

Go-Jo is a passionate advocate for… broccoli. He loves it, eats it raw, and has been known to hand it out to passers-by when he’s out busking in Australia. Luckily he’ll have no problem tracking his favourite vegetable down in Basel – the German for broccoli is… brokkoli.

🇲🇪 Montenegro | Nina Žižić – Dobrodošli

There are a few artists at Eurovision 2025 who have performed on the stage before, and Montenegro’s Nina Žižić is one of them. Back in 2013, she represented Montenegro in Malmö alongside dubstep spacemen Who See, who performed the song Igranka . It didn’t qualify for the final – can Nina go one better in 2025?

🇮🇪 Ireland | EMMY – Laika Party

Emmy takes to the stage in the Second Semi-Final with her brother Erlend, but they’re not the only siblings taking part in Eurovision this year – we also have a brother and sister representing Germany, two sisters from Latvia, and two brothers from both Portugal and Iceland. Ukraine go one better – not only are two members of Ziferblat brothers, they’re also twins!

🇱🇻 Latvia | Tautumeitas – Bur Man Laimi

Latvian ethno-folk group Tautumeitas talk a lot in interviews about their connection to the natural world, so we’re not surprised to hear that the band are committed animal lovers. They have many, many pets between the 6 of them, including cats, dogs, ducks, and sheep. And not just a few sheep – they’ve got 150 of them. Welcome to Baaa-sel!

🇦🇲 Armenia | PARG – SURVIVOR

PARG is known for experimenting with different music styles like folk, electronic, and alternative sounds. But he also loves a Eurovision cover – he’s created both an acoustic and an electro-beat version of Rosa Linn’s Snap . Whilst Rosa’s song finished 20th for Armenia in 2022, it’s gone on to be the most-streamed non-winner of Eurovision song ever, with over a billion streams.

🇦🇹 Austria | JJ – Wasted Love

JJ’s Austrian delegation contains a recent Eurovision alumnus – Teodora Spiric, better known as Teya, who performed Who The Hell Is Edgar? alongside Salena in 2023. Teya has been great friends with JJ for a long time, and she helped him co-write Wasted Love .

🇬🇷 Greece | Klavdia – Asteromáta

Klavdia first got the world’s attention when she reached the final of The Voice of Greece , as part of Eurovision icon Helena Paparizou’s team. She dazzled the judges in the blind audition with her rendition of Roxanne by The Police, with several judges turning their chairs on just her opening line. In the final, she took on James Brown's It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World .

🇱🇹 Lithuania | Katarsis – Tavo Akys

Four-piece band Katarsis may be alt-pop and indie gods in Lithuania, but their Eurovision heroes are none other than Swedish legends ABBA. And since Katarsis’s entry this year is called Tavo Akys , which means ‘your eyes’, we’re thinking there’s a potential mash-up in the making. Your Angeleyes? Already feels like a classic.

🇲🇹 Malta | Miriana Conte – SERVING

The 2025 Contest isn’t the first time Miriana has made a bid for Eurovision. In 2017, at the age of just 16, she entered the Malta Eurovision Song Contest with a song called Don’t Look Down . Seeing her name in lights for the first time was a moment she’ll never forget, and presumably performing on the Eurovision stage in front of an audience of millions will be another!

🇬🇪 Georgia | Mariam Shengelia – Freedom

Mariam Shengelia has almost made it to Eurovision once before, as a backing singer for Georgian solo artist Tornike Kipiani in 2020. She was ready to pack her bags for Rotterdam when the contest was cancelled due to Covid-19. When Tornike returned to Rotterdam 2021 it was with a different song, so Mariam missed the boat. But now she’s sailed to Eurovision all on her own, as Georgia’s representative for 2025.

🇩🇰 Denmark | Sissal – Hallucination

Sissal is originally from the Faroe Islands and moved to mainland Denmark when she was 25. Considering the islands have a population of less than 55,000, it’s remarkable that this is the second Faroese contestant at Eurovision this decade – the islands also gifted us Reiley in 2023.

🇨🇿 Czechia | ADONXS – Kiss Kiss Goodbye

Czechia didn’t have a national final in 2025 – instead, they chose their Eurovision artist through an internal selection. They took the process VERY seriously – first an international jury decided on the shortlist of candidates, then 900 people from across three countries gave their feedback. Next up, a focus group took a look. ADONXS was the clear winner, and there's no denying that he can feel very honoured about that, after such a thorough search.

🇱🇺 Luxembourg | Laura Thorn - La Poupée Monte Le Son

Luxembourg’s 2025 entry La Poupée Monte Le Son is a throwback to a Eurovision classic – 60 years ago, France Gall won Eurovision for Luxembourg with Poupée De Cire, Poupée De Son . Poupée means ‘doll’ in French, and Laura’s spin is about making her voice heard, and not letting anyone pull her strings.

🇮🇱 Israel | Yuval Raphael – New Day Will Rise

Whilst Yuval lives in the city of Ra’anana, on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, it’s not her first time in Switzerland – she lived in Geneva for three years as a child, where she loved skiing and playing tennis. It’s part of the reason why she speaks fluent French – and as a bonus reference to the country of her childhood, she sings a verse of New Day Will Rise in French too.

🇷🇸 Serbia | Princ – Mila

This isn’t Princ’s first attempt at representing Serbia at Eurovision. In 2023, he competed in Pesma za Evroviziju with his song Cvet sa istoka , which featured a combination of traditional Serbian beats and impressive arm-ography. It won the public vote, but still came second overall to Luke Black’s Samo Mi Se Spava . That qualified for the Grand Final – can Princ do the same?

🇫🇮 Finland | Erika Vikman – ICH KOMME

Erika Vikman qualified for Eurovision by winning Finland’s national final UMK , but 2025 wasn’t her first shot at the Eurovision crown. She also entered UMK in 2020 with the song Cicciolina , with staging that involved a pink leather catsuit, a red throne, two dancing bears, and ALL the pyro. She didn’t win, but the appearance launched her as once of the most prolific artists of the decade so far in Finland. And her star's about to rise elsewhere too!...