Third time lucky in Cyprus?
Not much has happened in Euroland over the last week and with our surge of news at the start of the festive season, it seems that all has stood still in The World of Eurovision. Until this evening.
Yes, those pesky Cypriots have confirmed the artist that will represent them in the Semi-Final in Helsinki 2007 (which I can stop saying now because it is 2007 - woo!).
After the Netherlands brought back Edsilia Rombley, it's time for another comeback from... Evridiki! Yes, the moody lady of two of Cyprus's better 90s Eurosongs will return in May, hoping to catapult the tiny island into the grand final.
Evridiki was a backing vocalist for Cyprus in 1983, 1986 and 1987 before finally taking centre stage at Eurovision 1992 with Tariazoume. It was a senusous performance that Wogan quite rightly said would 'smoulder your TV screen'. It came 11th. Two years later she returned with the dark and dramatic (a little too dramatic for my liking) Ime Anthropos Ki Ego. Again, she finished 11th. Bad news for her - if she finishes 11th in the Semi Final she'll really start kicking herself as Cypriot TV will ask why they were foolish enough to overlook Constantinos Christoforou, a man who seems to have represented Cyprus 24 times in the last 10 years.
Another interesting fact about Evridiki is that everytime I see a photo of her she looks different. Between her entries in 1992 and 1994 I swear she had a face transplant and a voice transplant. In fact I'm not too sure it was the same person. This picture on the right could be of anyone.
And as if all that wasn't enough, it turns out that Cyprus's 1998 entrant Michael Hadgiyannis will be writing this year's Greek entry! The traitorous swine!
Yes, those pesky Cypriots have confirmed the artist that will represent them in the Semi-Final in Helsinki 2007 (which I can stop saying now because it is 2007 - woo!).
After the Netherlands brought back Edsilia Rombley, it's time for another comeback from... Evridiki! Yes, the moody lady of two of Cyprus's better 90s Eurosongs will return in May, hoping to catapult the tiny island into the grand final.
Evridiki was a backing vocalist for Cyprus in 1983, 1986 and 1987 before finally taking centre stage at Eurovision 1992 with Tariazoume. It was a senusous performance that Wogan quite rightly said would 'smoulder your TV screen'. It came 11th. Two years later she returned with the dark and dramatic (a little too dramatic for my liking) Ime Anthropos Ki Ego. Again, she finished 11th. Bad news for her - if she finishes 11th in the Semi Final she'll really start kicking herself as Cypriot TV will ask why they were foolish enough to overlook Constantinos Christoforou, a man who seems to have represented Cyprus 24 times in the last 10 years.
Another interesting fact about Evridiki is that everytime I see a photo of her she looks different. Between her entries in 1992 and 1994 I swear she had a face transplant and a voice transplant. In fact I'm not too sure it was the same person. This picture on the right could be of anyone.
And as if all that wasn't enough, it turns out that Cyprus's 1998 entrant Michael Hadgiyannis will be writing this year's Greek entry! The traitorous swine!
By the way, you can now witness the winning national final performance of the Albanian song Balada E Gurit at this YouTube link... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyqG2xaVpTc. Be warned though! I nearly fell into a light coma whilst watching it.
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