Greece: Stefania heads to the studio for the final recording of "Last Dance"

Greece: Stefania heads to the studio for the final recording of
Thursday, 14 January 2021

  • The Greek Eurovision 2021 hopeful, Stefania, enters the studio in order to record the final version of her ESC entry 'Last Dance'.

     

    Following last week release of the song title of her Eurovision 2021 entry, Stefania, is in the studio this hours making the last touches on her song 'Last Dance' that will travel to Rotterdam next May. 

     

    For this matter the ESC Dream Team's composer, Dimitris Kontopoulos, who is behind the song's composition along with Arcade, and Sharon Vaughn has traveled to The Netherlands to make the last amendements and touches to the song in order to record the final version of the Greek Eurovision 2021 entry. 

    The final version of the song will be released in March along with the official music video, which will be filmed in February with Stefania returning on home soil that time for the shootings of the clip. 

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    One day earlier the two of them spoke live on the Greek national broadcaster during the evening's news program, shedding some more light on Stefania's Eurovision entry and the story behind the song and which message it aims to convey. Specifically Kontopoulos said among other things: 

    "We came to Rotterdam and recorded the last vocals in the song. Although the song is called "Last Dance" it conveys the message that it is not the last dance since life goes on"

    You can watch the whole appearance of Stefania and Dimitris Kontopoulos in the following video: 

     

    About Stefania

    Stefania Liberakakis was born 17 December 2002 in Utrecht, also known simply as Stefania, is a Greek–Dutch singer, actress, voice actress and YouTuber.

    Stefania is no stranger to the Eurovision family! In 2016 as member of the group  Kisses she represented The Netherlands in στην Junior Eurovision 2016 performing the song  Kisses and Dancin which came 8th.

    Earlier, in 2013, Liberakakis was a contestant in the third season of The Voice Kids in the Netherlands. She joined Team Borsato after her blind audition, but was eliminated in the battle rounds. She then joined the children’s choir Kinderen voor Kinderen, which she left after two years.

    In 2018, Liberakakis released her first solo single named “Stupid Reasons”. In 2019, she released three more singles: “Wonder”, “I’m Sorry (Whoops!)” and “Turn Around”.  From 2018 onwards, she stars as Fenna in the TV-series Brugklas (English: The First Years) and the movie Brugklas: De tijd van m’n leven. She also starred in other Dutch movies, including De Club van Lelijke Kinderen (as singer) and 100% Coco New York (as Lilly).[

    In June 2019, she performed a cover of the song “Con Calma” (together with Konnie Metaxa and Ilenia Williams) at the MAD Video Music Awards, which was broadcast on Greek television.

     In July the young talented act released a new uptempo single titled 'Friday',  which was  the second ESC 2020 candidate song for Greece. 

     

    Eurovision 2020

    Stefania was internally selected to represent Greece in Eurovision 2020 with her song 'Supergi!rl'. Unfortunately the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic depriving the young talented act from perform in Rotterdam. ERT had revealed that it will be continuing with Stefania in next year's edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, giving to the young talented act the chance to complete her Eurovision journey in Rotterdam. 

     

    News Source: StefaniaInstagram

    Image: EurovisionERT