Though Maria and Mira said that they were participating in the Melodi Grand Prix to win, they both seemed trully surprised and happy to be victorious in the Norwegian national final Saturday night.
"Now we will develop our stage-performance to make it even better to meet the international audience in Belgrade and Europe", Maria said exclusively to esctoday.com. – We feel that this sound mixes soul-elements from Joss Stone and Amy Winehouse, and that we can bring something new into Eurovision."
Maria has been only once to Eastern Europe before: "In Eastern Europe I have only been once to Latvia, but never on the Balkans. I am looking forward to it. It will be a fantastic experience!"
When esctoday.com told Maria earlier today about the fact that beeing the last performer of the night often leads to victory or a very good placing, she looked surprised, and hoped we were right. We were.
