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?
Samir Gustav Badran, formerly Andersson, born May 25, 1990 in Skarpnäck parish, Stockholm county, is a Swedish broker, TV profile, artist and blogger on Expressen. Together with Viktor Frisk, as the duo Samir & Viktor, he has participated in the melodifestivalen in 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2024.