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Ellinikós Telikós
Greece has been represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 45 times since its debut in , missing six contests in that time (1975, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1999, and 2000). The country won for the first and to date only time in with "My Number One" by Helena Paparizou. The Greek participating broadcaster in the contest is (ERT). Greece has never finished last in the contest. Throughout the 20th century, Greece achieved only two top five results, finishing fifth with "" by Paschalis, Marianna, Robert, and Bessy Argyraki, Bessy in and again fifth with "" by Cleopatra (Greek singer), Cleopatra in . The start of the 21st century saw Greece become one of the most successful countries in the contest, with ten out of thirteen top-ten results between 2001 and 2013, including third-place finishes for "(I Would) Die for You, Die for You" by Antique (band), Antique in (with 2005 winner Paparizou as lead singer), "Shake It (Sakis Rouvas song), Shake It" by Sakis Rouvas in , and "Secret Combinati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation
The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (), commonly shortened to ERT (), is the state-owned public radio and television broadcaster of Greece. History Overview ERT began broadcasting in 1938 as the Radio Broadcasting Service or YRE (). Following a government decision, the original company was abolished on 11 June 2013, with its 2,656 employees protesting against the closure and continuing broadcasting via a satellite transmission using European Broadcasting Union equipment. The EBU also began providing Internet streaming of the ERT broadcast. On 12 June 2013, the Greek government proposed a successor organization, New Hellenic Radio, Internet and Television (), shortened to New Hellenic Radio, Internet and Television, NERIT (), which launched in August 2013 as "Dimosia Tileorasi, Public Television" (). As protests against the decision of the government (Coalition of New Democracy, PASOK, DIMAR) continued, on 15 June Prime Minister Samaras proposed returning ERT to service immedi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Last Dance (Stefania Song)
"Last Dance" is a song recorded by Greek-Dutch singer Stefania, digitally released on 10 March 2021. It was written by Dimitris Kontopoulos, songwriting team Arcade and Sharon Vaughn. The song represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021. Stefania was once again selected as the country's representative by the Greek public broadcaster Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), after the cancellation of the . Background and composition On 18 March 2020, the day of the 2020 contest's cancellation, ERT was one of the first four broadcasters (the others being the Netherlands' AVROTROS, Spain's RTVE and Ukraine's UA:PBC) to confirm their participation in the next edition and to announce their continued cooperation with their 2020 artist, Stefania. "Last Dance" was written by Dimitris Kontopoulos, songwriting team Arcade, consisting of Anastasios Rammos, Diveno, Gavriil Gavrilidis, Pavlos Manolis, Egion Parreniasi and Loukas Damianakos. and Sharon Vaughn. On 7 January 2021, "La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nostradamos (band)
Nostradamos () was a Greek pop group founded in 1971 by Stelios Fotiadis, Ippokratis Exarchopoulos–also known as Charlie ()–and English female vocalist Chris King. It was one of the most popular pop groups in Greece which dominated the Greek pop-rock scene in the early to mid-seventies. Despoina Glezou joined the group in time to perform at the 1972 Thessaloniki Song Festival where they won the best new composer and performer prize with the song "Dos Mou to Heri Sou" (Give Me Your Hand) which became a huge success in Greece during the junta years. Glezou was also a member of the other pioneering Greek pop group Poll. Nostradamos has been ranked as number 9 in a list of the top 10 most influential rock groups during the dictatorship in Greece. In 1974, during the dictatorship, the group won the first Greek Eurovision participation contest run by the state broadcaster ERT to represent Greece at Eurovision but was not allowed to participate due to a scandal. History Rise to star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Military Junta Of 1967–1974
The Greek junta or Regime of the Colonels was a right-wing military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. On 21 April 1967, a group of colonels with CIA backing overthrew the caretaker government a month before scheduled elections which Georgios Papandreou's Centre Union was favoured to win. The dictatorship was characterised by policies such as anti-communism, restrictions on civil liberties, and the imprisonment, torture, and exile of political opponents. It was ruled by Georgios Papadopoulos from 1967 to 1973, but an attempt to renew popular support in a 1973 referendum on the monarchy and gradual democratisation by Papadopoulos was ended by another coup by the hardliner Dimitrios Ioannidis. Ioannidis ruled until it fell on 24 July 1974 under the pressure of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, leading to the Metapolitefsi ("regime change"; ) to democracy and the establishment of the Third Hellenic Republic. Background The 1967 coup d'état and the following seven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicky Leandros
Vasiliki Papathanasiou (, ; born 23 August 1949), known professionally as Vicky Leandros (, ), is a Greek singer living in Germany. She is the daughter of singer, musician and composer Leandros Papathanasiou (also known as Leo Leandros as well as Mario Panas). In 1967, she achieved worldwide fame after gaining fourth place for the country of Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song " L'amour est bleu", which became a worldwide hit. She further established her career by winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1972 with the song "Après Toi", again representing Luxembourg. On 15 October 2006, Vicky Leandros was elected town councillor of the Greek harbour town of Piraeus on the PASOK list. Her task concerned the cultural and international development of Piraeus. She was also Deputy Mayor of Piraeus. It was announced in June 2008 that Leandros decided to leave her position in Greek politics with immediate effect, stating that she had underestimated the workload and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nana Mouskouri
Ioanna "Nana" Mouskouri ( ; born 13 October 1934) is a Greek singer and politician. Over the span of her career, she has released an estimated 450 albums in at least thirteen languages, including Greek language, Greek, French language, French, English language, English, German language, German, Dutch language, Dutch, Portuguese language, Portuguese, Italian language, Italian, Japanese language, Japanese, Spanish language, Spanish, Hebrew language, Hebrew, Welsh language, Welsh, Mandarin Chinese and Corsican language, Corsican. Mouskouri became well known throughout Europe for the song "The White Rose of Athens", recorded first in German as "Weiße Rosen aus Athen" as an adaptation of her Greek song "" (''San sfyríxeis tris forés'', "When you whistle three times"). It became her first record to sell over one million copies. Later, in 1963, she represented Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "À force de prier", finishing eighth. Her friendship with the comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yovanna
Ioanna Fassou Kalpaxi (Greek: Ιωάννα Φάσσου Καλπαξή; born 14 November 1938), known professionally as Yovanna, is a Greek singer, novelist and poet known for her participation in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest representing Switzerland. Early life and education At the age of 14, she started her vocal studies at the Athens Conservatoire and trained as an opera singer, namely a lyric soprano. Concurrently, using the stage name "Yovanna", she was broadcasting on the National Radio with the Greek Radio Light Music Orchestra, thereby putting in jeopardy the scholarship that the Athens Conservatoire had awarded her, as this sort of activity was strictly forbidden. In a graduate contest with fifty contestants, and just one year before obtaining her diploma, she won the leading role of ''Margit'' in the operetta " Where the Lark Sings" by Franz Lehár. The following year, she took her degree with honours and was awarded a state scholarship to continue her studies in R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Makulis
Dimitrios Makulis (''Greek'': Τζίμης Μακούλης; 12 April 1935 in Athens – 28 October 2007 in Athens), known as Jimmy Makulis, was a Greek singer who had a successful career in German-speaking markets in the 1950s and 1960s, and is known for his participation on behalf of Austria in the 1961 Eurovision Song Contest. Early career Makulis became a successful singer in his native Greece before moving to Germany in the mid-1950s. In 1956 he scored a top 5 hit with "Auf Cuba sind die Mädchen braun". His biggest hit was "Gitarren klingen leise durch die Nacht", No.4 in 1959, and he continued to place charting singles until 1964. Eurovision In 1961, Makulis was chosen internally by Austrian broadcaster ORF to represent the country with the song " Sehnsucht" ("Longing") in the sixth Eurovision Song Contest, held on 18 March in Cannes, France. This proved unsuccessful, as "Sehnsucht" picked up only one point, from the United Kingdom jury, and finished along with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Broadcasting Union
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU; , UER) is an alliance of Public broadcasting, public service media organisations in countries within the European Broadcasting Area (EBA) or who are member states of the Council of Europe, members of the Council of Europe. , it is made up of 123 member organisations from 56 countries, and 31 associate members from a further 20 countries. It was established in 1950, and has its administrative headquarters in Geneva. The EBU owns and operates the Eurovision (network), Eurovision and Euroradio telecommunications networks on which major television and radio broadcasts are distributed live to its members. It also operates the daily Eurovision news exchange in which members share breaking news footage. In 2017, the EBU launched the Eurovision Social Newswire, an eyewitness and video verification service. Led by Head of Social Newsgathering, Derek Bowler, the service provides members of the EBU with verified and cleared-for-use newsworthy eyewitn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klavdia (singer)
Klavdia Papadopoulou (; born 18 August 2002), also known mononymously as Klavdia, is a Greek singer. She represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song " Asteromata", finishing in sixth place overall with 231 points. Early life Papadopoulou was born on 18 August 2002 in Aspropyrgos. She is of Pontic descent. Musical career Papadopoulou rose to prominence in 2017, at the age of 15, when she auditioned for the fifth season of Greece's Got Talent performing Michael Jackson's song "Billie Jean". In 2018, she took part in the fifth season of The Voice of Greece on Skai TV. During the auditions, she performed the song " Roxanne" by the Police, winning the approval of all four judges, and becoming part of Helena Paparizou's team. She continued her journey until the final stage of the program, but failed to qualify for the final three. Shortly after her experience on the talent show, Papadopoulou signed a record deal with the Greek label Arcade Music and Panik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asteromata
"Asteromata" (, ; ), also spelled "Asteromáta", is a song by Greek singer Klavdia, written by Arcade and Klavdia with production handled by Arcade. It was released on 31 January 2025 and in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. It peaked at number three in Greece and was certified platinum by IFPI Greece. Background and composition "Asteromata" was written by Arcade alongside Klavdia Papadopoulou. The song talks about Greek, and other, refugees and that special bond between them and their home land, which they never forget, wherever they are. A metaphorical dialogue is being formed between a mother and her missing child, which comforts her and viceversa. In an interview, Klavdia, who is of Pontic Greek descent, explained that the message of the song intends to honor those who were forced to abandon their homeland, transmitting a message of hope and resilience. Eurovision Song Contest Ethnikós Telikós 2025 ''Ethnikós Telikós 2025'' was organised by the Hellenic Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
