"Storm" is a song performed by singer

SuRie Susanna Marie Cork (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. Early life and career SuRie was born Susanna Marie C ...

, and represented the

United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 The United Kingdom was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with the song "Storm", written by Nicole Blair, Gil Lewis, and Sean Hargreaves, and performed by SuRie. The British participating broadcaster, the British Broadcasting Corpo ...

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, Portugal. The song is written and composed by Nicole Blair, Gil Lewis and Sean Hargreaves. An updated version was released as a download on 7 March. It peaked at number 50 on the UK Singles Chart.

Eurovision Song Contest

was announced as the British act for the 2018 contest on 7 February 2018, after being selected to represent the United Kingdom on '' Eurovision: You Decide''. As the United Kingdom is a member of the Big Five, SuRie directly qualified for and performed in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest on 12 May 2018. During her performance of the song at the final, SuRie's microphone was taken by a stage invader, who then yelled into the microphone "modern Nazis of the UK media, we demand freedom, war is not peace", before being dragged offstage by security and taken into custody shortly afterwards. She was given the opportunity to perform again by the

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but declined, stating that she was proud of her performance."

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* Eurovision songs of 2018 2018 songs Eurovision songs of the United Kingdom 2018 singles {{2018-single-stub