A few minutes before the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2019, there is already a first success for Mahmood: "Soldi" won the Composer Award, the prize for the best composition, one of the three that make up the Marcel Bezençon Award, the award named after the first director-general of the EBU and established in 2002 on the initiative of Richard Herrey, member of the Herreys, winners in 1984 and Christer Bjorkman, former participant (1992) and today great head of Melodifestivalen and supervisor of the show on behalf of Israeli TV.