Tali Golergant

Jerusalem, Santiago, Limpertsberg

Tali Golergant was born in Jerusalem on 26 November 2000, to a Peruvian Jewish father and an Israeli mother. The family moved through Chile and Argentina before settling in Limpertsberg, the Luxembourg City district, when she was nine. She went through the International School of Luxembourg and came out of it fluent in English, Spanish, Hebrew and French — four languages that later became the practical argument for sending her to an international song contest.

That scattered childhood is the material she has written about most consistently. Her work returns to questions of where home is and what belonging costs, and she has described her music as reflecting a life lived between places rather than inside one. The Latin and Middle Eastern strands in it are not decoration; she has said the mix of orientalist melody and reggaeton rhythm in "Fighter" is simply what her identity sounds like when it is set to music.

Four survival jobs and a jazz-funk band

Golergant left for New York to study musical theatre at Marymount Manhattan College, taking a BFA. Her first release was the single "Temporary" in February 2020, followed by a debut EP, Lose You, in November 2021. Alongside her own writing she fronted the jazz-funk group Blue Stripes and played the small New York circuit — Rockwood Music Hall, Mercury Lounge — the sort of rooms where a set is forty minutes and the headline slot is somebody else's.

She has been blunt about the economics of that period. Speaking to ELLE Luxembourg before the Rockhal show in May 2026, she said that after Eurovision she went from four survival jobs to working as a musician full-time. The method she describes has not changed much since: melody first, hummed into a phone, lyrics written later, often on flights where there is no wifi and nothing else to do but think.

"Fighter" and the end of a 31-year absence

Luxembourg had not entered the Eurovision Song Contest since 1993. The broadcaster revived the national final, and on 27 January 2024 Golergant won the Luxembourg Song Contest with "Fighter", taking 178 combined jury and public points.

At Malmö she drew the fifteenth and closing slot in the first semi-final on 7 May 2024 and qualified in fifth place with 117 points from the public vote. In the grand final on 11 May she performed fourth and finished thirteenth of twenty-five with 103 points — 83 from the juries, 20 from the public. For a country returning after three decades with no recent form to build on, a mid-table finish on the strength of a jury score was a reasonable outcome, and it reset what was possible for a Luxembourgish pop act.

The campaign also brought a harder kind of attention. The Times of Israel reported in April 2024 on her family ties to Israel, including a brother who had fought in Gaza, and on the online hate directed at her during the contest season — a context she went into the competition carrying rather than one that arrived afterwards.

Wander, then Red Haven

The first record after Eurovision was the EP Wander, released on 2 May 2025 through the French label Bel Air Records, with the singles "Dear Parents" and "So Far So Good", the latter alongside Sean Biopcik. Wander was the searching record: New York, movement, finding something to hold on to in places that were never permanent.

Red Haven, released on 8 May 2026 and put out independently, was built as the opposite. Three singles cleared the ground first — "Style" on 30 January, "Strawberry Fragrance" on 13 March and "(Senti)mental" on 10 April — and the finished five-track EP runs "Strawberry Fragrance", "Style", "Make Me Stay", "(Senti)mental" and "DCBA". It is the first project she has given over entirely to love, which she had previously avoided on purpose. She told L'essentiel she had not wanted to write about love before because the songs were about herself, and that this time the subject was what love actually is.

The sequencing is deliberately not chronological in the romantic sense: "Style" is the opening flirtation, "Strawberry Fragrance" is betrayal and its aftermath, "(Senti)mental" lands in something steadier. The red of the title stands, by her account, for trust in oneself as much as for passion. Musically it sits in R&B, funk and pop, with Olivia Dean and Raye as reference points rather than the Billie Eilish and Sara Bareilles end of her earlier influences. Some of it was written in Israel during the war, with the writing functioning as somewhere to go.

Running it herself

The most significant development of the past two years is structural rather than musical. Golergant now works without management and without a label, having come off the arrangement with the French label that released Wander. Œuvre Nationale, which awarded her a stART-up fund grant in 2025, lists what she handles herself: creative direction of the music production, visual identity, communication, digital strategy, concert organisation and the coordination of the musicians and collaborators she brings in. Luxembourg's cultural funding is what makes that arithmetic work.

Alongside her own shows she has taken the work that a mid-sized domestic market offers. She has played Francofolies, the USINA Festival and Echterlive, headlined a solo night at Den Atelier, appeared twice as a guest with the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, and opened for Zoe Wees, Marc Rebillet and Ronan Keating. In October 2025 she performed as a guest artist at the ceremony of accession to the throne of the new Grand Duke of Luxembourg — about as close to a state commission as a 24-year-old pop singer gets. In 2026 she has also made guest appearances in Miami.

What has not been announced is a tour. As of early November 2026 her own site says only that international shows are coming, without dates, and Live Nation lists nothing upcoming. The honest reading is that she is between campaigns: a record out in May, the live push run show by show rather than as a routed block, and the next phase not yet public.

The show as it stands

The reference point for her current live work is the Red Haven release night at Rockhal Club in Esch-sur-Alzette on Friday 8 May 2026 — her second headline concert and the largest solo show she has played in Luxembourg. Doors at 20:00, support from Jean Castel at 20:30, her own set from 21:15, standing room, promoted by Rocklab as part of the venue's release-package scheme for Luxembourgish artists.

She planned fifty-five minutes, which is short by headline standards and about right for an artist with two EPs and a contest entry to draw on. The set mixed Red Haven with older material and kept "Fighter" in it, which is a choice: the song that built the audience has not been retired in favour of the new record, and it has not been allowed to swallow the set either. The arrangements were played by a band rather than tracked, with saxophone, drums and guitar, and the room was built with two performance positions — the main stage and a smaller, piano-led setup for the quieter stretch. VIP packages added a meet-and-greet and an acoustic session, which fits an artist whose stated priority is meeting the audience in person.

No press review of that night appears to have been published, so the evidence on how it played is circumstantial: the venue's own framing of it as her biggest local show, and her account via Œuvre Nationale that fans now travel in from other countries for her Luxembourg dates. Anyone going on the next one should expect roughly an hour, a full band, and a set weighted towards the love songs of 2026.