SuRie

English singer (born 1989)

SuRie

SuRie in 2018

Background information
Birth name| Susanna Marie Cork
Born|  (1989-02-18) 18 February 1989 (age 36)
Harlow, Essex, England
Origin| Bishop's Stortford, England
Occupations|

* Singer
* songwriter

Years active| 2015–present
Labels|

* MMP
* Scarlett Audio

Website| www.surie.me

Musical artist

Susanna Marie Cork[1] (born 18 February 1989), known professionally as SuRie, is an English singer and songwriter. She was born in Harlow, Essex, and raised in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire.[2]

## Early life and career

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SuRie was born Susanna Marie Cork to Andrew Cork and Julia (née Kornberg). Her maternal grandfather, Sir Hans Kornberg, is a German-born British-American biochemist, whose own parents were murdered in the Holocaust. Her stage name SuRie is a combination of first names Susanna Marie.[3] SuRie attended Hills Road Sixth Form College and later graduated from the Royal Academy of Music.[4] Initially trained classically, she can play piano and oboe. She also trained as a vocalist. She started writing at 12-years-old. She has had residencies in Jazz lounges in London.[5] Her younger brother is singer-songwriter Benedict Cork.

She performed in front of the former Prince of Wales as a child soloist and appeared in different British venues such as The Royal Albert Hall and St. Paul's Cathedral[3] and at venues all around the world, including St. Mark's Basilica in Venice.[6]

### Eurovision Song Contest 2018

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See also: Eurovision Song Contest 2018

In January 2018, SuRie was confirmed as one of six artists competing in Eurovision: You Decide, the British national selection show for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018.[7] On 7 February 2018, she won the show with the song "Storm", written and composed by Nicole Blair, Gil Lewis, and Sean Hargreaves, and represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon.[1][8]

SuRie greets from Eurovision Spain PreParty in Madrid (2018)

She has a previous experience in the contest, as a backing vocalist and dancer for Loïc Nottet who represented Belgium in Eurovision 2015 in Vienna, Austria with "Rhythm Inside" and she also appeared as a musical director for Blanche’s "City Lights" in Kyiv, Ukraine in Eurovision 2017.[6]

As the United Kingdom is a member of the "Big Five", SuRie automatically qualified to the grand final of the contest, which took place on 12 May 2018[9] in Lisbon after Salvador Sobral's win in 2017.

SuRie's performance in the final was disrupted by Dr ACactivism who grabbed her microphone and shouted "Modern nazis of the UK media, we demand freedom, war is not peace."[10] She was able to complete her performance, and the broadcast cut to an unscheduled interview in the green room following the song. As a result, SuRie was given permission to perform again after the final performance, but she subsequently declined to do so saying she was proud of her one performance.[10]

## Discography

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SuRie performing at ESC 2018

### Studio albums

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Title  | Details

|

Something Beginning With ... |

* Released: 2 December 2016
* Label: MMP
* Format: Digital download, CD

Dozen |

* Released: 18 February 2019
* Label: MMP
* Format: Digital download, CD

Building A Woman |

* Released: 14 May 2023
* Label: MMP
* Format: Digital download, CD, Vinyl

### Extended plays

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Title  | Details

|

Rye |

* Released: 15 May 2020
* Label: MMP
* Format: Digital download

### Singles

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Title  | Year  | Peak chart positions  | Album

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[11] | FRA
[12]
"Lover, You Should've Come Over"  | 2017  | — | —  | Non-album singles
"Storm"  | 2018  | 50 | 103
"Taking It Over"  | — | —
"Only You and I"  | 2019  | — | —
"Last Christmas"  | 2020  | — | —
"Best of You"  | 2022  | — | —
"Somebody"  | — | —
"Who Do You Think You Are"  | — | —
"They Won't Go When I Go"  | — | —
"Best of You"  | 2023  | — | —
"Because the Night"  | — | —
"When It All Goes Quiet"  | — | —  | Building A Woman
"Treading Water"  | — | —
"—" denotes a single that did not chart or was not released.

## References

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1. ^ a b "UK's Eurovision 2018 act chosen". BBC News. 8 February 2018. Archived from the original on 4 October 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
2. ^ "A "born and bred" Bishop's Stortford singer could represent the UK at Eurovision this year". Hertfordshire Mercury. 31 January 2018. Archived from the original on 9 February 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
3. ^ a b SuRie Archived 11 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 17 February 2018
4. ^ Tonks, Andrea (20 March 2018). "Eurovision 2018: Meet all of the contestants in the Eurovision Song Contest". Express. Archived from the original on 27 January 2021. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
5. ^ "SuRie to bring a storm to Lisbon for the United Kingdom!". Eurovision.tv. 7 February 2018. Archived from the original on 9 February 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
6. ^ a b About SuRie Archived 17 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 17 February 2018.
7. ^ "SuRie: BBC Eurovision contest announces winning UK act". BBC News. 24 January 2018. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
8. ^ Hirst, Jordan (February 2018). "Listen: The UK's Eurovision 2018 Track Was Written By A Queenslander". QNews. Archived from the original on 24 February 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
9. ^ O'Connor, Roisin (7 February 2018). "SuRie: BBC Eurovision contest announces winning UK act". The Independent. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
10. ^ a b "Stage stormed during UK's Eurovision song". BBC News. 12 May 2018. Archived from the original on 19 October 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
11. ^ "SuRie | full Official Chart history". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 4 October 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
12. ^ "Discographie SuRie". lescharts.com. Archived from the original on 21 May 2018. Retrieved 20 May 2018.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to SuRie.

* Official website
* SuRie discography at Discogs
* SuRie at IMDb
* Video on YouTube

Preceded by

Lucie Jones
with "Never Give Up on You"

|  United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest
2018 | Succeeded by

Michael Rice
with "Bigger than Us"

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* Bonnie Tyler
* Vikki

Songs|

* "All"
* "Are You Sure?"
* "The Bad Old Days"
* "Beg, Steal or Borrow"
* "Believe in Me"
* "Better the Devil You Know"
* "Bigger than Us"
* "Boom Bang-a-Bang"
* "Children of the Universe"
* "Come Back"
* "Congratulations"
* "Cry Baby"
* "Dizzy"
* "Don't Play That Song Again"
* "Embers"
* "Even If"
* "Flying the Flag (For You)"
* "Give a Little Love Back to the World"
* "Go"
* "Hold On to Our Love"
* "I Belong"
* "I Can"
* "I Love the Little Things"
* "I Wrote a Song"
* "I'm Never Giving Up"
* "It's My Time"
* "Jack in the Box"
* "Knock, Knock Who's There?"
* "Let Me Be the One"
* "Long Live Love"
* "Looking High, High, High"
* "Love City Groove"
* "Love Enough for Two"
* "Love Games"
* "Love Is..."
* "Love Shine a Light"
* "Love Will Set You Free"
* "Making Your Mind Up"
* "A Man Without Love"
* "Mary Ann"
* "A Message to Your Heart"
* ~~"My Last Breath"~~
* "Never Give Up on You"
* "No Dream Impossible"
* "One Step Further"
* "One Step Out of Time"
* "Only the Light"
* "Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit"
* "Power to All Our Friends"
* "Puppet on a String"
* "Ring-A-Ding Girl"
* "Rock Bottom"
* "Runner in the Night"
* "Save Your Kisses for Me"
* "Say It Again"
* "Say Wonderful Things"
* "Sing, Little Birdie"
* "Space Man"
* "Still in Love with You"
* "Storm"
* "Teenage Life"
* "That Sounds Good to Me"
* "Touch My Fire"
* "We Will Be Free (Lonely Symphony)"
* "What the Hell Just Happened?"
* "Where Are You?"
* "Why Do I Always Get It Wrong"
* "You're Not Alone"

* Note: Entries scored out signify where the United Kingdom did not compete. Italics indicate an entry in a future contest.
* See also: UK Eurovision discography

* v
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Countries|

| Final|

* Albania
* Australia
* Austria
* Bulgaria
* Cyprus
* Czech Republic
* Denmark
* Estonia
* Finland
* France
* Germany
* Hungary
* Ireland
* Israel
* Italy
* Lithuania
* Moldova
* Netherlands
* Norway
* Portugal
* Serbia
* Slovenia
* Spain
* Sweden
* Ukraine
* United Kingdom

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Semi-finals|

* Armenia
* Azerbaijan
* Belarus
* Belgium
* Croatia
* Georgia
* Greece
* Iceland
* Latvia
* Macedonia
* Malta
* Montenegro
* Poland
* Romania
* Russia
* San Marino
* Switzerland

Artists|

| Final|

* Saara Aalto
* Amaia and Alfred
* AWS
* Eugent Bushpepa
* DoReDoS
* Equinox
* Eleni Foureira
* Sanja Ilić and Balkanika
* Benjamin Ingrosso
* Mikolas Josef
* Madame Monsieur
* Jessica Mauboy
* Mélovin
* Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro
* Elina Nechayeva
* Netta
* Ryan O'Shaughnessy
* Cláudia Pascoal
* Rasmussen
* Alexander Rybak
* Cesár Sampson
* Michael Schulte
* Lea Sirk
* SuRie
* Waylon
* Ieva Zasimauskaitė

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Semi-finals|

* Aisel
* Alekseev
* Christabelle
* Eye Cue
* Franka
* Gromee feat. Lukas Meijer
* The Humans
* Ethno-Jazz Band Iriao
* Jessika feat. Jenifer Brening
* Sevak Khanagyan
* Ari Ólafsson
* Vanja Radovanović
* Laura Rizzotto
* Julia Samoylova
* Sennek
* Yianna Terzi
* Zibbz

Songs|

| Final|

* "Bones"
* "Dance You Off"
* "La forza"
* "Fuego"
* "Higher Ground"
* "Hvala, ne!"
* "O jardim"
* "Lie to Me"
* "Mall"
* "Mercy"
* "Monsters"
* "My Lucky Day"
* "Nobody but You"
* "Non mi avete fatto niente"
* "Nova deca"
* "Outlaw in 'Em"
* "Storm"
* "That's How You Write a Song"
* "Together"
* "Toy"
* "Tu canción"
* "Under the Ladder"
* "Viszlát nyár"
* "We Got Love"
* "When We're Old"
* "You Let Me Walk Alone"

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Semi-finals|

* "Crazy"
* "For You"
* "Forever"
* "Funny Girl"
* "Goodbye"
* "I Won't Break"
* "Inje"
* "Light Me Up"
* "Lost and Found"
* "A Matter of Time"
* "Oniro mou"
* "Our Choice"
* "Qami"
* "Stones"
* "Taboo"
* "Who We Are"
* "X My Heart"

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