Eurovision 2025 Song Contest: Live Updates

Those happy Eurovision sessions ended abruptly in 2014 when Louane’s mother died from cancer.

A star in France with five hit albums, Louane, now 28, said that over the past decade she had written and sung many songs expressing grief and anger over her mother’s death.

Her Eurovision track, a powerful ballad called “Maman,” has an altogether different message, however. “It’s a letter to my mother saying: ‘I’m finally fine. I’m finally good in my life. I am, myself, a mother,’” Louane said. “It’s a super special song to me.”

Louane makes that transformation clear when she sings in French: “I’m better now / I know the way / I’m done walking down this memory lane.”

Louane said the track had a secondary message that went beyond her own story. “What I’m going to try and make everyone understand,” she said, “is that even through the deepest pain, deepest sadness, you can find a way to be better, to finally be well.”