"Rise Up" is a song by Greek electronic duo

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featuring Greek rapper

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. It was chosen to represent

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at the

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Critical reception

The song received mixed to positive reviews. ''

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'' entertainment writer Carl Greenwood gave the song 1 star out of 5 and said, "Rise Up is the sort of song that gets stuck in your head." Jess Denham of ''

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'', "Rise Up" has a definite holiday vibe to it, just in time for the start of summer."

Eurovision Song Contest

On 11 March 2014 Freaky Fortune and RiskyKidd participates to the Greek national final of Eurovision Song Contest 2014. After performing the song under number two at the national final, it got the 36.83% of votes and became the Greek entry in the 2014 Eurovision. At the Eurovision Song Contest they performed 13th in the second semi-final on 8 May 2014. The song qualified from the second semi-final and competed in the final on 10 May 2014. In the final at the end of the voting, it had received 35 points, placing on 20th place in a field of 26 songs. It was, along with 1998, the worst placing ever for Greece.

Track listing

Credits and personnel

Vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

- Nicolas Raptakis and Shane Schuller *

Lyrics Lyrics are words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist. The words to an extended musical composition such as an opera are, however, usually known as a "libretto" and their writer, a ...

- Nicolas Raptakis, Theofilos Pouzbouris and Shane Schuller *

Composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

- Nicolas Raptakis and Theofilos Pouzbouris

Chart performance

Weekly charts

References

External links

* English-language Greek songs Eurovision songs of Greece Eurovision songs of 2014 Articles containing video clips 2014 songs {{2010s-song-stub