Cyprus: Eurovision 2022 act and entry release set for March 9

Cyprus: Eurovision 2022 act and entry release set for March 9
Monday, 07 March 2022

  • The Cypriot national broadcaster, CyBC, has confrmed that they will be revealing their act and entry for Turin on March 9, 2022. 

    Cyprus will be showing their cards for Eurovision 2022 on Wedesday, March 9, 2022! The Cypriot entry will be presented  at 17:30 CET on CyBC’s afternoon talk show ‘Ola Ston Aera’ (All on Air).

    According to the latest reports on Greek and Cypriot media, Andromachi, is expected to be announced as the country's hopeful for Turin while behind her song will be again  Alex Papakonstantinou, the composer behind  the Cypriot 2012, 2018, 2019 entries. 

    The song will be released under the record label of Panik Records  under which  the Cypriots entries of 2018 and 2019 were released.  

    While we wait for CyBC's annoucement to confirm the reports about Andromachi, Marvin Dietmann has already been confimred as the country's stage director in Turin. 

     

    Cyprus in Eurovision

    Cyprus debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981 with the group Island, achieving an honorable 6th placing in Dublin. Aphrodite’s island has been represented by some of the biggest names in the Greek and Cypriot music industry: Anna Vissi (1982), Michalis Hatzigiannis (1998), Evridiki (1992,1994,2007), Ivi Adamou (2012), Despina Olympiou (2013), etc.

    The country achieved its best Eurovision result this year when it placed 2nd with Eleni Foureira’s Fuego. The Greek famous star was selected internally to fly the Cypriot flag at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon. Eleni’s explosive performanc on  the Altice Arena stage blew away Europe which boosted the country to its highest position ever in the competiton.

    In 2019 internally selected Tamta, want to make a strong repeat of last year’s success with her song enttitled , Replay, and through her energetic performance at Expo Tel Aviv accomplished a 13th place for Cyprus, keeping the country on the left side of the final scoreboard.

    In 2020, CyBC internally selected Sandro Nicolas to fly the flag in Rotterdam with his entry Running, written by Alfie Arcuri, Sebastian Rickards, Octavian Rasinariu and Sandro himself while the productionwas work of Teo DK. However Sandro never had the chance to perform in Rotterdamam as the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic. 

    Last year, Elena Tsagrinou was internally selected to fly the flag in Rotterdam with her song "El Diablo" which competed in the first semi final and after qualifying to the Grand final finished 16th with a total of 94 points. 

     

    News Source: CyBC

    Image; Eurovision.tv