Cyprus: CyBC confirms Eurovision 2023 participation

Cyprus: CyBC confirms Eurovision 2023 participation
Thursday, 28 July 2022

  • The Cypriot national broadcaster, CyBC, has confirmed that the Mediterrenean state island will be taking part in the next Eurovision Song Contest in the UK. 

    Cyprus will be joining the party in the UK next May as CyBC has confirmed to ESCToday that the country will be participating in the 67th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest set to take place in the United Kingdom next year. 

    The public broadcaster, will go internal, like the previous four years, in order to determine their Eurovision hopeful and will be once again teaming up with Panik Records for this purpose. The artist to be selected will be of Cypriot descent with more light to be shed on the matter over the following months. 

    According to ESCToday Cyprus will be opting for a televised national final for Eurovision 2024 and for this reasons a special agreement been reached with Panik Records and the repsective agreement signed by  Mr. Thanasis Tsokos (CYBC Director General) and Mr. Giorgos Arsenakos (Panik Records CEO) in the company's headquarters.

     

    Cyprus in Eurovision

    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. In 2021, 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. 

    Earlier this year Andromache represented the country with her song 'Ela' in Turin competing in the second semi-final where she finished 12th with 63 points ( 9th in thr televoting last in the jury voting) and didn't reach the Grand final. 

    News Source: ESCToday

    Image: EBU/Nathan Reinds