Zoë Më is on home turf at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 but there’s still a journey to make. She’ll be representing Switzerland with the song ‘Voyage’.

A rose from Basel

Basking in the glow of a 2024 win, Switzerland have another strong contender for Eurovision 2025. They made an internal selection, picking out a singer-songwriter who was born in Basel, Zoë Më.

She now lives in Fribourg in Switzerland, but is delighted to be heading back to her city of birth. And she can pop in on her grandparents while she’s there.

Zoë says: "Representing Switzerland at the ESC while we are hosting the contest is a huge honour and a surreal experience.”

She sings in both German and French, and her Eurovision song Voyage is in the French language, blending pop and chanson (lyric-driven French songs). The words are all about how people are at their best when treated with compassion and care. She paints the picture by singing about a flower flourishing when it is nurtured, rather than being cut. Hold the bouquets – it's pot plants only in Zoë's dressing room, please.

The path to stardom

Zoë is reaching for the Eurovision trophy, and she’s already got accolades to her name. In 2024 she was given awards for SRF 3 Best Talent and RTS Artiste Radar.

After she released her EP Dorienne Gris she headed to top Swiss festivals to perform, including the Montreux Jazz Festival and Luzern Live. She says that the best feeling in the world is hearing the audience sing her lyrics. All together now Europe: “Faire un voyage avec toi…”

She had a surreal experience performing at the Paris Olympic Games in 2024, where she had to pause every time a Swiss athlete competed. And she was in good company, as another of Switzerland's Eurovision legends also sang during the event – none other than Céline Dion.

In 2020, she released her first album, Momoko, which is full of her trademark folk-pop ballads. It is mostly in German, with a little French of course.

We’re not sure if anyone’s organised a nap room at the Eurovision Song Contest, but one of Zoë’s favourite hobbies is sleeping. French speakers say “Je suis crevée” when they’re exhausted, but Zoë likes to play on the language and tells everyone “Je suis crevette” – or, “I am shrimp.” By the end of the Grand Final, we will all be shrimp, Zoë. Happy, tired shrimp.

Nurturing a chanson

Zoë wrote Voyage alongside Scottish singer-songwriter Emily Middlemas and Zurich-based Tom Oehler. Emily was a popular contestant on The X Factor in 2014, and has released her own singles with a pop-indie-folk feel.

Tom has had huge hits in Switzerland, including Remo Forrer’s Watergun, which took Switzerland to the Grand Final in Eurovision 2023. And even more impressively, he was part of the team behind Nemo’s The Code, which snatched Switzerland its third Eurovision win in 2024.

Planting Eurovision seeds

Zoë was born in 2000 and first remembers being aware of Eurovision in 2010 when Germany won with Satellite by Lena. But her love for the Contest came a little later.

She remembers: “I really fell into the Eurovision rabbit hole in 2020 when my friend Gjon’s Tears represented Switzerland in the Contest and I was like – wait what?!”

After that, she was hooked on both Eurovision and the national finals.

Gjon’s Tears was indeed set to represent Switzerland in 2020 with the song Répondez-moi , before the Contest was cancelled due to the Covid pandemic. He returned in 2021 with Tout l'Univers and finished up in third place for Switzerland. He’ll also be making a return to the Eurovision stage during the shows in Basel, so he and Zoë will have a chance to catch up. Or, may we suggest, record a duet.

Zoë's ear buds

Zoë is hugely inspired by the French language in her songwriting, and so it’s no surprise that her playlist of favourite tunes is packed with French music. She loves the laid-back folk song soleil soleil by Pomme, the soaring ballad Douce by Clara Ysé, and the upbeat C’est fou comme je t’aime by Foé. And Zoë isn’t afraid of a bassline. One of her favourite tunes is Tristesse by Zaho de Sagazan.

When it comes to karaoke, she prefers an English-language song. Her pick is Everybody’s Changing by Keane. She says it’s a really nostalgic song for her, that reminds her of long drives with her family, where she was sat in the back of the car singing at the top of her lungs.

The short voyage

Zoë can’t wait to see Basel transform into a Eurovision city, and to meet everybody involved with the event.

She says: “I think everyone who steps onto the Eurovision stage is a hero, because these three minutes of performance demand so much work, love, courage, passion – there are so many doubts and hopes. How could someone who gives his or her all to a performance not be a hero to my eyes?”

Listen out for Zoë on the Official Eurovision Song Contest Podcast .

You can learn more about Zoë Më from Switzerland right here .