Greece: Stefania's 'Last Dance' reaches the top-10 in bookies' predictions for Eurovision 2021

Greece: Stefania's 'Last Dance' reaches the top-10 in bookies' predictions for Eurovision 2021
Wednesday, 14 April 2021

  • The Greek Eurovision 2021 hopeful, Stefania, has reached the top-10 in betting odds for the winner of the 65th Eurovision Song Contest. 

    Stefania is riding her black pegasus and is taking Greek back to the bookies' top-10 with her entry "Last Dance'. The young talented act has entered the top 10 in the betting odds, marking Greece's big comeback after several years in the top 10 favorite to win entries according to the bookies. 

    With the Eurovision Song Contest around the corner the Greek Delegation and the creative team behind Stefania are in full steam preparing the Greek hopeful's staging in order to be ready for the live shows in Rotterdam. 

    Recently local Dutch media outlet have been speaking of Stefania's Eurovision performance as something that we haven't seen before in the contest. The reports talk of an impressive staging if the delegation manages to pull through things according to plan. 

    The ongoing reports havee brought among fans speculations on what Stefania's performance might feature with some of them talking about the Greek mythology elements that feature also the official music video of "Last Dance". 

    However with nothing being confirmed the speculations have created further anticipation ofr something really outstand, a fact that is reflected in the betting odd with Stefania climbing to the 10th place of the betting odds with a trend of going higher. This hasn't happen for Greece for many years in the latest editions of the contest. 

    In addition the Greek entry has also entered tthe top ten of the odds for the entry finishing within the top ten, having at the moment a 41% chance to achieve a top 10 placing while Stefania seems to have a 10% chance of finishing in the top three places. 

    Here is how the top 10 like according to the current betting odds: 

    Top 10

    Stefania is set to perform her entry "Last Dance"  4th in the second semi final on May 20, 2021 in Rotterdam 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.

    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 with Stefania losing the chance to complete her journey to Rotterdam. However, the she will have this year's contest to finish what she started with her new entry "Last Dance:.