Richard doesn’t directly address her lawsuit or time with Combs during an interview to discuss her new album. She says her new music — melancholic and poetic —was inspired by the loss of a family member and the stress of having parents who were in and out of the hospital.
In Maman's closing bars, we briefly hear her daughter's voice."She won't be here in Basel," says Louane. "She's going to be watching on TV, because she's only five."
"But she's super proud. She keeps on telling me, 'Maman, you have to bring the trophy home."She's just adorable'."The Netherlands originally asked last year's entrant, Joost Klein – who was barred from the final after an alleged altercation with a camera operator — the chance to come back for 2025.
Although he'd already written a song for the contest, he declined, saying his disqualification still "stings".Instead, the honour went to 21-year-old Claude Kiambe, who moved to the Netherlands from the Democratic Republic of Congo when he was nine years old.
"It wasn't always safe in Congo," he says. "I couldn't afford to go to school… and I love school."
His mum eventually managed to smuggle the family out of the country, and it's to her that his Eurovision song is dedicated.These early season burns - predominantly grass, heath and shrub fires - have created great strain on fire services, but their ecological impacts can be complicated.
Not all fires, particularly smaller, lower-intensity burns, are necessarily catastrophic to long-term vegetation health.Certain plants, such as heather, are adapted to fire-prone environments. But increasingly frequent or severe blazes can impair their ability to naturally recover.
Some researchers are concerned about the second peak of the fire season, which typically comes later in the year when temperatures are high and vegetation has dried out again."My number one worry is what is going to happen in the summer," said Prof Rein, when "there are fewer wildfires but they are bigger and they can actually be seriously catastrophic".