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Greece In The Eurovision Song Contest 2015
Greece was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song "One Last Breath", written by Efthivoulos Theocharous, Maria Elena Kyriakou, Vaggelis Konstantinidis and Evelina Tziora and performed by Kyriakou. The song was selected through the five-participant national final, ''Eurosong 2015 – NERIT & MAD show'', developed by NERIT and organised and produced by the private music channel MAD TV. Greece was drawn to compete in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest, which took place on 19 May 2015. Performing during the show in position 6, "One Last Breath" was among the top 10 entries of the first semi-final and therefore qualified to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Greece placed sixth out of the 18 participating countries in the semi-final with 81 points. At the final, held four days later, Greece performed 15th out of the 27 finalists and finished in 19th place with 23 points. Background Prior to the 2015 contest, Greece had part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Elena Kyriakou
Maria Elena Kyriakou (, ; born 11 January 1984) is a Greek-Cypriot singer best known for winning the first season of ''The Voice of Greece'' under the mentorship of Despina Vandi. She represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with her song " One Last Breath". Biography and career Early life Maria Elena Kyriakou was born on 11 January 1984 in Larnaca, Cyprus and has lived there since then. She has three siblings; one brother Kyriacos Pavlou and two sisters. At the age of 13, her mother registered her at a music school. Years later, she studied philosophy at the University of Ioannina and during the first year she got a proposition from Giannis Ploutarchos which she did not accept as she preferred to concentrate on her studying. After 2 years at the University of Ioannina she decided to move back to her home country. She then continued her studies at the University of Cyprus. After her graduation she opened her own tutorial class. In 2011, her mother applied fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized in letter case, lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events and styles related to the music industry. Its Billboard charts, music charts include the Billboard Hot 100, Hot 100, the Billboard 200, 200, and the Billboard Global 200, Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in various music genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm and operates several television shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomai Apergi
Thomaí Apérgi (; born 23 December 1988) is a Greek singer. She made her professional debut under the label of Panik Records in 2012 with her first single "What's Your Name" (Mia Vradia). She is known for participating in Eurosong 2013 – a MAD show, the Greek national final for the Eurovision Song Contest. Early life Apergi was born on 23 December 1988, in Tinos. Her first audience was her parents to whom she would give concerts every night when she was still a child. She studied music from a young age together with classical and electric guitar lessons as well as vocals, hence forming her own unique artistic personality. She attended the University of Patras. She studied Greek Literature and linguistics. Career 2012–present: Professional debut and Eurosong 2013 Her distinctive voice and her musical influences led her to the exploration of smooth jazz, dance bossa nova, downtempo electronica, funk, soul and jazz music, while the songs she chose to sing the past years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaya (singer)
Marianna Chantelle Hansen (; born 17 February 1983), known professionally as Shaya, is a Danish-born Greek singer. She was a member of the girl pop band Hi-5, the result of the Greek version of the talent show Popstars in 2003. Biography Early life Shaya was born in Copenhagen, Denmark to a Danish father and an Indo-Guyanese mother. The family moved to Sweden after her parents' divorce when she was 6. At the age of 12, Shaya and her family immigrated once more, settling in Thessaloniki, Greece. Her mother was a DJ before Shaya's birth. Although Shaya enjoyed singing and dancing from a young age, including performing with SambaSchools in Copenhagen Carnival, she became interested in becoming a singer by luck when she was persuaded to get on stage to sing a song with co-workers after work at a club she worked at in Kavala around age 18. 2001–2005: First professional steps and Hi-5 In 2001, Shaya released her first solo single titled "Release Me" and promoted it around E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Real
Real may refer to: Currencies * Argentine real * Brazilian real (R$) * Central American Republic real * Mexican real * Portuguese real * Spanish real * Spanish colonial real Nature and science * Reality, the state of things as they exist, rather than as they may appear or may be thought to be * Real numbers, the set of rational and irrational numbers (and opposed to imaginary numbers) * The Real, an aspect of human psychic structure Sports Africa * Real Republicans FC (Accra), Ghana * Real Republicans F.C. (Sierra Leone) Central and South America *Club Real Potosí, Bolivia *Municipal Real Mamoré, Bolivia *Associação Esportiva Real, Brazil *Real Noroeste Capixaba Futebol Clube, Brazil * C.D. Real Sociedad, Honduras * Real C.D. España, Honduras *Real Maya, Honduras *Real Club España, Mexico *Real Saltillo Soccer, Mexico * Real Sociedad de Zacatecas, Mexico *Real Estelí Baloncesto, Nicaragua * Real Estelí F.C., Nicaragua *Real Madriz, Nicaragua *Real Garcilaso, Peru Portu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrice
Barrice Sobolev (born 5 December 1984) known as Barrice, is a Greek singer, songwriter and producer. He was chosen to be one of the five acts bidding to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song "Ela". He recently released his last single with the record label Spicy called "Zitima Zois ke Thanatou" and is working on new upcoming release. Early life Sobolev was born on 5 December 1984 in Shymkent. He moved to Sukhumi, Georgia and lived with his family for two years and then immigrated to Greece when he was still young. He got involved with the music to a young age since his mother was a music teacher. Barrice moved with his family to Athens and he started working as a disc jockey. Passing to the Marketing & Communication department in the University of Athens, Barrice made his first steps singing and writing songs. Career 2012–present: Debut and ''Eurosong 2015'' Barrice made his debut when he was chosen to be the act of the Positive Group Vega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RIK Sat
Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (; ), or CyBC (; ), is Cyprus' public broadcasting service. It transmits island-wide on four radio and two domestic television channels, and uses one satellite channel for the Cypriot diaspora. It also transmits on a separate high definition channel. CyBC is a public broadcaster, meaning it is non profit and thus has no shareholders. CyBC was partially funded by a tax on electric bills, a practice which ended on 1 July 2000; CyBC is currently funded by the state budget. The amount of the tax was dependent on the size of the home and, as a hypothecated tax for public television, was similar in principle to the television licence systems in other countries. The corporation is a member of the international broadcasting community, belonging to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the Broadcasting Organisation of Non-Aligned Countries (BONAC) and the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA). History and legal framework CyBC began as the Cyprus Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RIK 2
RIK 2 (Greek: ΡΙΚ 2) is a Cypriot television channel owned and operated by Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation. It was launched in 1992. History RIK 2 was the second television channel to start in Cyprus, starting shortly before the first private television channel O Logos in April. Successful content in the 1990s included Latin American telenovelas and US soaps such as ''The Bold and the Beautiful'', which, as of 2005, was still on air. As of the last week of 2023, RIK was the least-watched television channel in Cyprus, out of the six local services available terrestrially. Moreover, its viewing share is smaller than that of ERT World ERT World (formerly ERT SAT) is a Greek free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (). It is the corporation's international television service, and its programming include ..., which is available over-the-air in Cyprus. Programming Broadcasts are typically in the Greek l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens
Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland. With its urban area's population numbering over 3.6 million, it is the List of urban areas in the European Union, eighth-largest urban area in the European Union (EU). The Municipality of Athens (also City of Athens), which constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire urban area, had a population of 643,452 (2021) within its official limits, and a land area of . Athens is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years, and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BCE. According to Greek mythology the city was named after Athena, the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tavros
Tavros (, which means "bull"), is a town and a suburb in the southwestern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Moschato-Tavros, of which it is a municipal unit. Geography Tavros is situated 3 km southwest of Athens city centre, 3 km west of the Acropolis of Athens and 5 km northeast of Piraeus. The municipality has an area of 2.125 km2. Its built-up area is continuous with those of Central Athens and the neighbouring suburbs. The main thoroughfare is Peiraios Street, the old road from Athens center to Piraeus. Tavros has a metro station ( Tavros – Eleftherios Venizelos metro station). History In the ancient times, the area of Tavros was part of the vast Athenian municipality of Eleonas, extending from Parnitha to the Phallic Breeze, was sparsely populated with few peasant inhabitants whose main occupation was the cultivation of the olive from which it took its name, Tavros was in N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimosia Tileorasi
Public Television (DT) (originally as Greek Public Television (EDT)) was a temporary, state television broadcaster in Greece (up to the creation of the new public channels of New Hellenic Radio, Internet and Television, NERIT). From 27 January 2014, the management of the DT has gone to the Board of NERIT, to operate the new, permanent broadcaster. Creation of the broadcaster In the morning of 10 July, DT started broadcasting on the television frequencies of Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, ERT. The Deputy Broadcasting Minister Pantelis Kapsis in the same day, talked at a well known private TV station (from the old studios of Mega Channel in Paiania), pointed out that it was a matter of hours before of the start of broadcasting regular program and that the EDT would be broadcasting from a private studio. Indeed, at 9pm the EDT premiered by the Greek film ''I Kiria Dimarhos'' (The Lady Mayor). The TV was later renamed from ''EDT'' to ''DT''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutsche Welle
(; "German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW (), is a German state-funded television network, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the Federal Government of Germany. The service is available in 32 languages. DW's satellite television service consists of channels in English, Spanish, and Arabic. The work of DW is regulated by the Act, stating that content is intended to be independent of government influence. DW is a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). DW offers regularly updated articles on its news website and runs its own centre for international media development, DW Akademie. The broadcaster's stated goals are to produce reliable news coverage, provide access to the German language, and promote understanding between peoples. It is also a provider of live streaming world news, which, like all DW programs, can be viewed and listened via its website, YouTube, satellite, rebroadcasting and various apps and digital media players. DW has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
