Keli Holiday says he would represent Australia at the annual Eurovision Song Contest if offered the opportunity.
The comments came during an appearance on Triple M’s Mick in the Morning, where host Mick Molloy floated the idea, following the buzz around Delta Goodrem’s fourth place finish at this year’s contest.
“I had a fever dream the other day… you would win us Eurovision,” Molloy told Holiday – the solo project of Peking Duk’s Adam Hyde. “It’s possibly of no interest to you… it’d be incredible. You go there and do that [‘Dancing2’ dance], and they would lose their minds,” he added, referring to Holiday’s ARIA No. 1 single “Dancing2”, which earned him Best Video at the 2025 ARIA Awards as well as the No. 2 spot on triple j’s Hottest 100 of 2025 countdown.
Holiday was immediately on board with the idea: “No, I would give it a crack! We could do it.”
Keli also addressed his recent deportation from the US, reportedly over “national safety concerns”, which forced him to cancel planned appearances in New York – including a surprise set at Aussie pub Ol’ Mates.
“I was meant to go to Ol’ Mates, I was going to do a surprise set there and have a bunch of fun with a bunch of people,” he explained. “I’m not at liberty to discuss such matters fully at this time… but what I will say, is that I love the United States.
“I’m gutted I couldn’t do the New York City show, and I hope to get back there soon because there is a lot of people wanting a Keli Holliday show, but I want to bring it to them, so we’ll see.”
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Despite the US visa issue, Holiday has had a huge 2026 so far. His debut album Capital Fiction, which features “Dancing2”, hit No. 1 on the Australian Albums chart, No. 3 on the ARIA Albums chart and No. 5 on the Vinyl chart in its first week.
His music pulls from new wave, indie sleaze, pop, dance, and rock ’n’ roll, landing somewhere between broken-hearted balladry and full-body party music. It’s flamboyant, funny, sincere, and occasionally heartbreaking, but never careless – and its why he landed on Rolling Stone AU/NZ‘s Future of Music list for 2026.
