Cyprus: Tamta releases her new EP titled "Awake"

Cyprus: Tamta releases her new EP titled
Friday, 03 July 2020

  • Tamta, the Cypriot Eurovision 2019 representative, has released her new international 7-track EP titled 'Awake'.

    Following the release of the tracks “Seniorita”, “Sex With Your Ex”, “My Zone”, “Yala” and Greek single “S’agapo” , Tamta moves a step further releasing her internationnal EP 'Awake'. The EP includes apart from the prereleased Sex With Your Ex”, “My Zone”, “Yala”, three brand new songs and a cover of Sarah McLachlan song. 

    The EP was released under the label of  Universal/Minos EMI, and features a total of 7 songs: 

    1. Awake
    2. Hold On
    3. Yala
    4. Sex With Your Ex
    5. On The Run
    6. My Zone
    7. Silence (Sarah McLachlan cover)

    The EP can be found on digital platforms: 

    Spotify

     

    Tamta in Eurovision 

    In January 2007, Tamta participated in ERT's  national final to select the Greek representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007. This was Tamta's first attempt to reach the Eurovision stage.  She placed third out of the three participants with the ballad song With love, while Sarbel went to the Contest.

    In 2019 Tamta was internally selected by the Cypriot broadcaster (CyBC) to represent Cyprus with her “Replay” behind of which was once again Alex Papaconstantinou while the whole creative team behind the Cypriot entry included some of the most successful names of the music industry, Teddy Sky, Viktor Svensson, Albin Nedler and Kristofer Fogelmark.

    Tamta competed in the first semi final in Tel Aviv and qualified to the Grand final where she eventually finished 13th with 109 points, marking the country’s second best result in the last decade, after Eleni Foureira’s 2nd place in 2018.