Ahead of his performance at Eurovision 2025 in Basel, Kittens was able to have a chat with Red Sebastian. He is representing Belgium at the Contest with his song “Strobe Lights”.
Check out our interview with Red Sebastian in Basel here!
Together, Kittens and Red Sebastian chat about his first rehearsal and how he felt stepping onto the Eurovision stage. He also talks about the clones he brought on stage as well as his love for rave music. We also ask who would he want to remix from this year’s line-up and ask for vital updates about his cat!
Who is Red Sebastian?
Seppe Herreman is no stranger to competitions, having first appeared on Belgium’s Got Talent aged 14 in 2013, making it to the final of the competition.
He took some time after this to discover himself, and studied Pop Vocals at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent. The artist Red Sebastian was born in 2021, and he has steadily been releasing music under the identity since, including an Album and EP. He returned to the talent show world earlier this year, going on to win the Flemish show Sing Again, which spotlights those who missed out on stardom at the first attempt. He would then go onto enter and win VRT’s Eurosong, winning him the right to represent Belgium at Eurovision 2025.
Red Sebastian will be participating in Eurovision 2025 with “Strobe Lights”, which was written by Astrid Roelants, Billie Simmone-Lea Bentein, Seppe Guido Yvonne Herreman, and William Vanderstichele.
Belgium’s Eurovision journey
Belgium was one of the debutant countries at the beginning of the Eurovision Song Contest back in 1956. For the first edition, countries could submit two songs, and for Belgium that year, ‘Messieurs les noyès de la Seine’ by Fud Leclerc and ‘Le plus beau jour de ma vie’ by Mony Marc represented the nation. To this day we do not know the final results of Eurovision 1956. Belgium have taken part in 64 Eurovision Song Contests; however, they have only ever won once: in 1986 with Sandra Kim and the song ‘J’amie la vie’, scoring 176 points.
Following an impressive seventh place in 2023, Belgium chose Mustii to represent them with “Before The Party’s Over” in 2024. Mustii scored eighteen points in the second semifinal, placing thirteenth.
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