Eva Marija to Carry Luxembourg's First All-English Eurovision Entry to Vienna

Luxembourg's Eurovision return continues to generate stories that punch above the country's weight. The 2026 entry is one of them. On 24 January 2026, at the Rockhal in Esch-sur-Alzette, 20-year-old Eva Marija Kavaš Puc won the Luxembourg Song Contest with "Mother Nature" — and in doing so produced the country's first ever Eurovision entry performed entirely in English.

The artist

Eva Marija was born in 2005 to Slovenian parents from Ljubljana and Beltinci who emigrated to Luxembourg in 2003. She is part of a generation of Luxembourg-born artists raised across multiple linguistic and cultural worlds — a pattern that increasingly defines the country's contemporary music scene. Her stage presence has been described as understated and direct, in keeping with the song's environmental theme.

The song

"Mother Nature" was written by Eva Marija herself together with Julie Aagaard, Maria Broberg and Thomas Stengaard — the latter a name familiar to Eurovision watchers from his earlier writing credits on contest-winning entries. The track sits in the modern pop-ballad lane that has tended to do well at Eurovision in recent cycles, with thematic seriousness wrapped in a hook the audience can sing back. Its all-English performance is a deliberate choice for international reach, and a notable cultural marker for a country that habitually fields multilingual entries.

The contest

The Luxembourg Song Contest 2026 ran with eight competing acts at the Rockhal — itself a reminder of how Luxembourg's national selection has become a serious music-industry event in its own right. Public and jury voting combined to put Eva Marija through over the rest of the field.

Eurovision 2026 takes place at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria, with two semi-finals on 12 and 14 May and the grand final on 16 May. Eva Marija performs in Semi-final 2 on 14 May, the slot that has historically been considered slightly more competitive but also where Luxembourg's recent entries have polled well.

Why this matters beyond the song

Luxembourg returned to Eurovision in 2024 after a 31-year absence. The country has used the contest as a soft-power instrument: a high-visibility vehicle for the music industry, the language tourism story (Eurovision 2024 brought Luxembourgish back onto the global stage), and a piece of national branding that lands particularly well with younger Europeans.

Eva Marija's victory confirms that the post-comeback machinery — selection process, songwriting collaborations, production values — is producing entries that compete on Eurovision's modern terms. Whether or not "Mother Nature" reaches the final on 16 May, the country's Eurovision project is already paying dividends well beyond the scoreboard.