🇬🇷 Greece: National Final to Select Eurovision 2025 Entry - Eurovoix
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- ️Thu Sep 19 2024
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ERT has confirmed that the Greek entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 will be selected through a televised national final.
CEO of the Greek national broadcaster, ERT, Aikaterini Kaskanioti has announced that the artist and song representing Greece at the 69th Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, will be selected through a national final. The official announcement was made during ERT’s program presentation at the Athens Conservatory.
After the confirmation of Greece’s national final for 2025, Kashanioti has announced an open invitation to any artist interested in participating. It has also been revealed, that the result of the National Final will be determined partly by the Greek public. How much of overall result will be determined by a public vote is yet to be confirmed, however it is expected it will be added along with a jury vote.
This is the first national final that Greece has held for the Eurovision Song Contest since the 2017 contest in Kyiv, Ukraine. Notably this is the first open national selection with no collaboration with specific artists or record labels since 2002.
Marina Satti represented Greece at the 68th Eurovision Song Contest with “ZARI”. She placed 11th in the Grand Final receiving 126 points including 12 points from the Cypriot public.
Image Source: Sarah Louise Bennett / EBU | Source: EurovisionFun
Greece debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 when they were represented by Marinella and the song “Krasi, thalassa kai t’agori mou” which finished in 11th place with 7 points. Three years later Greece earned their first top 5 finish with Paschalis, Marianna, Robert, and Bessy who finished in 5th place with “Mathima solfege”. In 2001 Greece achieved their first top 3 result with Antique and the song “I Would Die For You”. The song became a European hit and charted across the continent. In 2005 Helena Paparizou returned to the Eurovision stage as a solo artist and brought Greece their first, and to date only, victory. Her song “My Number One” won with 230 points, beating runners-up Malta by 38 points.
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