Vincent Bueno - Alive
Austria decided to once again go down the internal selection route and announced early on that Vincent Bueno would go to Rotterdam. The song Alive, however , was not released until early March. Vincent wrote the lyrics himself , whilst the music was composed in collaboration with David Yang, Felix von Göns, and Artur von Aigner. It is R&B and funk combined , with shades of Bruno Mars, Justin Bieber thrown in.
So who is Vincent? He was born in Vienna to Filipino parents, is multi talented , mastering piano, guitar, drums and bass guitar by age 11. In 2008, he featured in a musical theatre competition Musical- Die Show beating 10 contestants to become the winner. He was lauded by veterans of the original West End cast of Miss Saigon.
2 Years later he performed for Filipino television and signed a contract with Star Records, now Star Music. Vincent has also released two records, Wieder leben (Being alive again) in 2016 and Invincible in 2018. He competed in Austria's 2016 National selection. That is where our connection, albeit a distant one to him began. One of his dancers happened to a family member of mine. So there was a lot of excitement min our family. However, he missed out. In 2017 he provided backing vocals to Nathan Trent.
Now to the song itself. The video is very slick and shows off Vincent's ability to dance. His voice is good. The music starts gently building up slowly, but it doesn’t seem to go anywhere., ends with Alive. Not quite sure how alive I feel after listening to it. I like it but am disappointed by it. It is middle of the road for me, definitely not a winning song, but, who knows , he might be able to pull it off on the stage.