EUROVISION hopeful Lesley Roy hopes she’s heading in the right direction to win after last year’s event was postponed by Covid-19.
The singer wowed the nation last night performing her song Maps on the Late Late Show.
Lesley, from Balbriggan, Co Dublin, said: “I’m so passionate and focussed on how we told our story last year and again this year and I want to continue Ireland’s great legacy at the competition.”
The singer said she’s excited about whatever kind of Eurovision goes ahead in May.
She added: “It’s an honour to represent Ireland. I want to have the best three minutes I possibly can on the stage for Ireland in Rotterdam.
“I really feel that I have more of a grasp on what people need right now with what is going on in the world.
Speaking of how the video for the track was shot, Lesley explained: “We went up to the Wicklow mountains, it was so, so cold, but we got some amazing shots.”
Coming back to Ireland from New York to follow her passion has meant Lesley could care for her grandmother.
She said: “Coming home is kind of a mirror of the song, there’s only one way to go, and this is the way back home.
“One of the things that pulled me to do Eurovision was that I had always wanted to come back to Ireland and reform my roots here and Eurovision seemed like a great segue to do that.
And for the ambitious blonde songstress, the timing couldn’t be better.
She said: “Once the song was finished, one of the things Lauren, my wife, and I discussed was that it made sense to move home.
“It was the exact right time. My grandmother needed full-time care and she lives with Lauren and I now – we took her in once we did our quarantine.
“We are going to be in Ireland for the foreseeable future, it was a natural progression to come home and do this.”
