Everything You Need To Know About Eurovision Winner Conchita Wurst

…and let’s not forget Thomas Neuwirth.

Everybody now loves Conchita Wurst, the Austrian drag queen who won the Eurovision Song Contest this weekend. But where did she – and her alter ego, Thomas Neuwirth – come from?

Everybody now loves Conchita Wurst, the Austrian drag queen who won the Eurovision Song Contest this weekend. But where did she – and her alter ego, Thomas Neuwirth – come from?

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Thomas Neuwirth's first brush with fame came as a teenager in 2006, on the Austrian talent show Starmania.

His voice was pretty impressive even back then.

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Tom made it all the way through to the final of the competition... but in the end, came second.

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But not before getting to do this fairly amazing Shirley Bassey number.

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