Greek
Greek may refer to:
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...
Σταύρος Μιχαλακάκος) (born 9 April 1987) is a
Greek Cypriot
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singer. On 12 February 2010 he won the second season of the Greek version of the television singing competition ''
The X Factor
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''. He was awarded a recording contract and a car. Michalakakos is the second Cypriot to have won the Greek competition, after Loukas Giorkas won the first season.
Michalakakos' debut single, "Vres To Nisi" (Find the Island), a Greek-language cover of the 1979
Nick Lowe
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