Every year the Swedish entertainment industry is taken over for weeks by a single television show trying to find Sweden's representative at the Eurovision Song Contest. Melodifestivalen has grown into a center around which a large portion of the Swedish music industry revolves and is financed by. Is it really reasonable that so much power is wielded by a single production?
Maria Sur (b. 31 December 2004) is a Ukrainian singer who lives and works in Sweden. She participated in Melodifestivalen twice with the songs "Never Give Up" and "When I'm Gone".