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Julia Samoylova

Julia Samoylova will represent Russia in the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest with the song 'I Won’t Break'.

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Julia Samoylova is a singer and songwriter, born in 1989 in Ukhta, Russia. Julia, who has used a wheelchair since childhood, was a finalist in The X Factor in Russia. Julia performed during the opening ceremony of the Winter Paralympics in Sochi in 2014. She has also won an award called Alla’s Golden Star, which was named after Russia's 1997 Eurovision participant Alla Pugachova.

Julia was originally chosen to represent Russia in the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Flame Is Burning. Broadcaster Channel One Russia are honouring the commitment made to Julia last year and she is set to appear in the 2018 competition in Lisbon. Julia's song for Eurovision 2018, I Won't Break, was written by Netta Nimrodi, Leonid Gutkin and Arie Burshtein.

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Lyrics of I Won't Break

My heart is in command
No longer in the dark
My castle in the sand
Is now made of stone and rock

The memory I knew
The things I've been through
And everything I do
Has got me living by the minute
And now that I'm in it
Now that I'm in it...

I won't break
I won’t break
When it comes to emotions
From the deepest of oceans
Coming straight from my heart
I won’t give in to the motions

Those so called broken wings
Are soaring to the sky
I've flown with kings and queens
With freedom in their eyes

I won't break
I won’t break
When it comes to emotions
From the deepest of oceans
Coming straight from my heart
I won’t give in to the motions

Cause even in the darkness
Cause even in the darkest night
Cause even in the darkness
I can see a light
Cause even the darkness...

I won't break
(Cause even in the darkness
Cause even in the darkest night
Cause even in the darkness
I can see a light)
I won’t break
(Cause even in the darkness
My heart is in command
No longer in the dark)

I won't break
(Cause even in the darkness
Cause even in the darkest night
Cause even in the darkness...)

My heart is in command
No longer in the dark