On 11 March 2017 , she won the Icelandic national selection . of Eurovision in Iceland with overwhelming majority of the votes and it was announced that Svala is going to represent Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with her song “ Paper ” which she wrote with Einar Egilsson , Lester Mendez and Lily Elise . She performed in the first semi-final of the contest , which took place on 9 May , and despite being one of the favourites to get into the top 10 of the entire contest she failed to qualify to the final
Eurovision Song Contest 2017
Eurovision Song Contest 2017
Svala