Greece: Stefania's Eurovision 2021 preparations in full swing

Saturday, 27 February 2021

• The Greek Eurovision 2021 team is going full steam, with Stefania in Athens and the preparations for her ESC 2021 partcipation in full swing. 

  Just a couple of days before the Greek Eurovision 2021 hopeful, Stefania, revealed that her song for Rotterdam, "Last Dance" , will be going public on March 10. With the date approaching Stefania's team is under full steam making the necessary preparations for the song and its official release while the Greek act herself has begun dance rehearsals with Fokas Evagelinos.

  We remind you that Stefania's creative team sees Dimitris Kontopoulos, Arcade, Sharon Vaughn on the composition team, Fokas Evangelinos as the director for the song's staging , while Ilias Kokotos completes the Greek act's supportive team.

  Stefania is in Athens these days durng which she has completed already the shooting of the official music video of "Last Dance" which has been directed by Kostas Karydis, who was the director also of Stefania's last year's ESC entry Superg!rl. 

  In addition, Stefania is visiting ERT's headquaters where her rehearsals for the stage arrangement of "Last Dance" have kicked off under the guidance of Fokas Evagelinos. Stefania will appear on Rotterdam Ahoy's stage in May accompanied by four dancers whilst a female backing vocalist will fill the number of people on stage.

   

  The Greek talented acted shared earlier a post on her instragram account showing her outside the Greek national broadcaster's headquaters where her rehearsals are taking place. 

  

  Stefania has been drawn to compete in the first half of the second semi-final on May 20, 2021 in Rottrdam Ahoy. 

   

  A few words for 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.

   

  Greece in Eurovision

  Greece made its first participation in the contest  in 1974 with Marinela. Since then the country has won one time the competition, in 2005 with Helena Paparizou and her entry  My number one. Since 2004 and up to 2013 the country was one of the most successful countires in the contest, having achieved 9 times a top ten placing. In 2016 it experienced its first non qualifying results since the semi final were introduced, with Argo in Stockholm.

  In 2019 ERT opted for an internal selection and selected Katerina Duska to represent the country with her entry Better Love, which eventually finished 21st in Tel Aviv.

  Last year 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 her journey to Rotterdam.

  Image: Stefania/Superg!rl Youtube video