Ticket to Tel Aviv: Meet Lake Malawi from the Czech Republic

17 April 2019 at 18:00 CEST

Press photo Lake Malawi (Czech Republic 2019) Tomas Gal

With the song ‘Friend of a Friend', Lake Malawi will represent the Czech Republic this year. The band is set to perform 6th in the first Semi-Final on Tuesday 14 May in Tel Aviv, Israel. This is 'Ticket to Tel Aviv', our feature counting down to the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest.

On 28 January, Lake Malawi was announced the winner of this year's Czech national selection. The contest happened online, by both public voting through the official Eurovision app as well as by votes from an international jury.

Lake Malawi came second in the public vote, behind Jakub Ondra, and joint first in the jury vote with fellow contestant Barbora Mochowa. These results combined put Lake Malawi on top of the leaderboard, winning the honour to represent Czech Republic at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Who are Lake Malawi?

The indie-pop band was founded by Albert Černý in 2013 and the band's name was inspired by a Bon Iver song. Since the very beginning, Lake Malawi wanted to make it outside of their home country Czech Republic with all their repertoire sung in English, and they will do just that when they take to the stage in Tel Aviv.

Shortly after the release of their first single Always June on BBC London, Lake Malawi opened for Thirty Seconds to Mars in Prague (2014). In 2015, the band performed at The Great Escape festival in Brighton and released the EP We Are Making Love Again – the single Chinese Trees won the new music Audition Poll on Amazing Radio.

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