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Jessica Sansome

Eurovision 2023: Who is Edgar Edgar Allan Poe mentioned in Austria's grand final performance

They're asking that very question during their Eurovision Song Contest grand final performance but really, who the hell is Edgar Teya and Salena are singing about?

The singers were chosen to represent Austria at the 67th Eurovision Song Contest which is taking place in Liverpool on Saturday night and are taking to the stage at the M&S Bank Arena as part of the world's biggest music competition.

And it was already known that their performance would get people talking as the song's catchy chorus already going viral on social media - and will no doubt be stuck in your head for days afterwards.

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So what is the song about and who exactly is Edgar - or his full name Edgar Allan Poe - who is mentioned throughout?

The talented twosome wrote the satirical Who The Hell Is Edgar?, alongside Pele Loriano and Ronald Janeček, and it is about being possessed by the ghost of nineteenth-century American poet and horror author Edgar Allan Poe.

He is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and wrote stories such as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher and The Cask of Amontillado.

The major figure in world literature is primarily based on his ingenious and profound short stories, poems, and critical theories, which established a highly influential rationale for the short form in both poetry and fiction.

He planned for years to produce his own journal The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), but before it could be produced, he died in Baltimore on October 7, 1849, aged 40, under mysterious circumstances. The cause of his death remains unknown.

As for Teya (Teodora Špirić), 23, and Salena (Selina-Maria Edbauer), 25, met while competing in the Austrian talent show Starmania 21. They bonded over their love of Eurovision and united specifically to enter the contest.

Before they met both had already been in with a chance of representing the country in Eurovision - with Salena coming second in Austria’s 2019 pre-selection and Teya losing out to Vincent Bueno in 2020. Ahead of the final, the duo had already found fame with the song which has gone viral on TikTok, for understandable reasons.

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