Polina Paraskevi Misailidou ( el, Πωλίνα Παρασκευή Μισαηλίδου) is a

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singer, who is better known in her own country simply as Polina. Polina was born and raised in

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, a suburb in south Athens. She started her career in 1977 singing the song "Lives" at the

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. In 1979, Polina appeared at the Eurovision Song Contest as a backup singer to Elpida as she performed the entry "

Sokrati Greece and Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi (ERT) chose to host a national selection with the winner being chosen by an "expert" jury. Elpida was chosen with "Sokrati" (re-titled "Socrates" for the TV broadcast) and placed 8th at Eurovision. B ...

". However, that would be her only time going to Eurovision. She was picked in the 1986 national selection to represent Greece at

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, but

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, Greece's national broadcaster, pulled out of the Contest unexpectedly. Polina stated that it was due to political troubles in Greece at the time, but she noted that a Eurovision website had learned that the real reason was that the Contest was to be held the night before

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. Had she performed, she would have appeared eighteenth and she would have performed the song "Wagon-lit". She is best known for the string of chart successes she had in Greece in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including "Birimpa", "Pink Bikini", "Let's Go to the Seychelles", "Wagon Lit", "Contrares", "Radio, My love","Rumours was released", "Push-Ups", "Awesome" and "Ιn Thessaloniki". She has also collaborated with several well-known composers, like Stamatis Kraounakis, Harry Chalkitis, Costas Haritodiplomenos, Nikos Karvelas, Yannis Karalis, Kostas Bigalis, Yiannis Miliokas, Thanos Kalliris, Kostas Tournas, Phoebus and others, particularly Stamatis Kraounakis, with whom she has had a working relationship since the release of her ''Birimpa'' album in 1986.

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