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Feb 1 2015
Live from Nicosia: Cyprus Decides 2015
Posted on February 1, 2015 8:32 pm by Fotis Konstantopoulos (Greece)
NICOSIA, CYPRUS - Welcome to the national final of Cyprus. Through
Eurovision Song Project, Cyprus will decide its participation for the
60th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. Six acts came to the
final through a series of auditions and challenges and tonight we will
find out the winner. Minus One and Panagiotis Koufogiannis are
considered the top favourites but still everything is open.
Throughout last week the tele voting was open and tonight along with
the jury we will find out the winner. Watch the show live here or here
while we will bring you live report of the show. Tonight the show is
hosted by Antri Karantoni while the jury made of Alex Panayi, Tasos
Tryfonos, Elena Patroklou and Despina Olympiou will be enhanced with
former French HoD, Mr. Bruno Berberes and Italian HoD Nicola Caligiore
who spoke in fluent Greek!
Antri Karantoni opened the show performing a remix of "Rise like a
phoenix" while Tasos Tryfonos is co hosting the show. During the jury
presentation the Italian HoD spoke in fluent Greek! making the
audience applauding. In the meantime Alex, Elena and Despoina go on
stage and perform all together the 1987 Italian entry "Gente di mare"
by Umberto Tozzi & Raf. In the audience, Cypriot national broadcaster
has also invited the Austrian ambassador in the island. After a
dreadful attempt with an "Austrian Heidi" but it seems the organisers
didn't know that "Heidi" was a Swiss novel and cartoon and not
Austrian! Now time for the real business.
HOVIG - STONE IN A RIVER
A beautiful ballad by a Greek Armenian singer. Hovig is dressed in
dark blue shirt, tie and trousers. Dark blues stage for him. When it
comes to the vocal performance we give him immediately 12 points. He
is perfect and he is amongst the favourites tonight. The song is
definitely a safe ballad that can really approach the jury votes
easily and not to mess with tele voting. It could be a good and safe
choice for Cyprus. There is a bit of confusion on whether the dancers
behind me are needed, still the jury give the best compliments to this
performance.
DOODY - MAGIC
DoOdy is not alone on stage and performs his song along with a band.
Sometimes you listen something unstable in his voice while performing
but still you listen a voice that surely resembles to Constantinos
Christoforou, with whom Doody are siblings. Overall the song is a safe
mid tempo tune and DoOdy is feel ing quite comfortable. In the song
bridge, all together come in the front of the stage and perform the
R'n'B part of the song. He is just 20 years old and already he shines,
well done DoOdy. The jury agrees with us that DoOdy is great on stage,
has fresh image but he needs to improve his vocals. Read his interview
to oikotimes.com.
PANAGIOTIS KOUFOGIANNIS - WITHOUT YOUR LOVE
Panagiotis is the favourite in most polls for Cyprus 2015 national
final including ours. Recently we spoke to Panagiotis, the interview
of which you can read here. He has an amazing ballad and an even
greater vocal performance. His retro outfit with white suit jacket and
black trousers make him an ultimate 30s hunk. This is a ballad the
juries will surely vote in Vienna and the tele voters will not be able
to ignore. He is surrounded by female string players and two female
backing vocals. The jury praises his performance resembling it with
that of Johnny Logan.
MINUS ONE - SHINE
Well Turkey might be out but for sure they have voted this song which
definitely resembles with their 2010 and 2011 entries. Minus One is an
extremely popular band in Cyprus and despite not topping the
international polls we are sure that they will fight hard for the
trophy and will not be a surprise seeing them in Vienna, mark my
words. The rock ballad / mid tempo anthem song is working nicely for
them although the lead singer Francois Micheletto (who speaks fluently
French as he descents from France) needs to rest his voice! The jury
praises them and Bruno Berberes says it clearly: He wants to see them
in Vienna.
GIANNIS KARAGIANNIS - ONE THING I SHOULD HAVE DONE
This ballad is presented in retro mode as the broadcast turns into
black and white. Great vocal performance and definitely another song
that juries in Vienna will definitely not ignore. Giannis (aka John)
is giving a great smooth and nerdy performance which cannot be
ignored. The song reminds me a former Eurovision entry (Tom Dice, Me
and my guitar) but it's smooth and sae choice for Cyprus. The jury is
stunned with the performance as every time small details make this
song brat for them. Not a bad choice for Vienna I would say!
NEARCHOS & CARIS - DEILA DEN AGAPO
Charis is a former Junior Eurovision participant for Cyprus and now
joined by Nearchos they performa Greek - French ballad. We give our
sincere condolences to Nearchos for the loss of his grandfather this
week and we hope tonight's show to compensate them. Christern Björkman
said in the Eurochallenge phase that Charis should know French since
she performs a song in that language. It's the only song performed
even partially in Greek tonight. I think it's the weakest entry
tonight but still it's decent and vocally both are performing
perfectly. There is a dance act behind them with two pair of male and
female dancers dancing under a white clothe.
so that's it from the live report. we continue with the show and of
course we are ready to inform you about the results.
http://oikotimes.com/2015/02/01/live-from-nicosia-cyprus-decides-2015/
From: A. Papazian
Feb 1 2015
Live from Nicosia: Cyprus Decides 2015
Posted on February 1, 2015 8:32 pm by Fotis Konstantopoulos (Greece)
NICOSIA, CYPRUS - Welcome to the national final of Cyprus. Through
Eurovision Song Project, Cyprus will decide its participation for the
60th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. Six acts came to the
final through a series of auditions and challenges and tonight we will
find out the winner. Minus One and Panagiotis Koufogiannis are
considered the top favourites but still everything is open.
Throughout last week the tele voting was open and tonight along with
the jury we will find out the winner. Watch the show live here or here
while we will bring you live report of the show. Tonight the show is
hosted by Antri Karantoni while the jury made of Alex Panayi, Tasos
Tryfonos, Elena Patroklou and Despina Olympiou will be enhanced with
former French HoD, Mr. Bruno Berberes and Italian HoD Nicola Caligiore
who spoke in fluent Greek!
Antri Karantoni opened the show performing a remix of "Rise like a
phoenix" while Tasos Tryfonos is co hosting the show. During the jury
presentation the Italian HoD spoke in fluent Greek! making the
audience applauding. In the meantime Alex, Elena and Despoina go on
stage and perform all together the 1987 Italian entry "Gente di mare"
by Umberto Tozzi & Raf. In the audience, Cypriot national broadcaster
has also invited the Austrian ambassador in the island. After a
dreadful attempt with an "Austrian Heidi" but it seems the organisers
didn't know that "Heidi" was a Swiss novel and cartoon and not
Austrian! Now time for the real business.
HOVIG - STONE IN A RIVER
A beautiful ballad by a Greek Armenian singer. Hovig is dressed in
dark blue shirt, tie and trousers. Dark blues stage for him. When it
comes to the vocal performance we give him immediately 12 points. He
is perfect and he is amongst the favourites tonight. The song is
definitely a safe ballad that can really approach the jury votes
easily and not to mess with tele voting. It could be a good and safe
choice for Cyprus. There is a bit of confusion on whether the dancers
behind me are needed, still the jury give the best compliments to this
performance.
DOODY - MAGIC
DoOdy is not alone on stage and performs his song along with a band.
Sometimes you listen something unstable in his voice while performing
but still you listen a voice that surely resembles to Constantinos
Christoforou, with whom Doody are siblings. Overall the song is a safe
mid tempo tune and DoOdy is feel ing quite comfortable. In the song
bridge, all together come in the front of the stage and perform the
R'n'B part of the song. He is just 20 years old and already he shines,
well done DoOdy. The jury agrees with us that DoOdy is great on stage,
has fresh image but he needs to improve his vocals. Read his interview
to oikotimes.com.
PANAGIOTIS KOUFOGIANNIS - WITHOUT YOUR LOVE
Panagiotis is the favourite in most polls for Cyprus 2015 national
final including ours. Recently we spoke to Panagiotis, the interview
of which you can read here. He has an amazing ballad and an even
greater vocal performance. His retro outfit with white suit jacket and
black trousers make him an ultimate 30s hunk. This is a ballad the
juries will surely vote in Vienna and the tele voters will not be able
to ignore. He is surrounded by female string players and two female
backing vocals. The jury praises his performance resembling it with
that of Johnny Logan.
MINUS ONE - SHINE
Well Turkey might be out but for sure they have voted this song which
definitely resembles with their 2010 and 2011 entries. Minus One is an
extremely popular band in Cyprus and despite not topping the
international polls we are sure that they will fight hard for the
trophy and will not be a surprise seeing them in Vienna, mark my
words. The rock ballad / mid tempo anthem song is working nicely for
them although the lead singer Francois Micheletto (who speaks fluently
French as he descents from France) needs to rest his voice! The jury
praises them and Bruno Berberes says it clearly: He wants to see them
in Vienna.
GIANNIS KARAGIANNIS - ONE THING I SHOULD HAVE DONE
This ballad is presented in retro mode as the broadcast turns into
black and white. Great vocal performance and definitely another song
that juries in Vienna will definitely not ignore. Giannis (aka John)
is giving a great smooth and nerdy performance which cannot be
ignored. The song reminds me a former Eurovision entry (Tom Dice, Me
and my guitar) but it's smooth and sae choice for Cyprus. The jury is
stunned with the performance as every time small details make this
song brat for them. Not a bad choice for Vienna I would say!
NEARCHOS & CARIS - DEILA DEN AGAPO
Charis is a former Junior Eurovision participant for Cyprus and now
joined by Nearchos they performa Greek - French ballad. We give our
sincere condolences to Nearchos for the loss of his grandfather this
week and we hope tonight's show to compensate them. Christern Björkman
said in the Eurochallenge phase that Charis should know French since
she performs a song in that language. It's the only song performed
even partially in Greek tonight. I think it's the weakest entry
tonight but still it's decent and vocally both are performing
perfectly. There is a dance act behind them with two pair of male and
female dancers dancing under a white clothe.
so that's it from the live report. we continue with the show and of
course we are ready to inform you about the results.
http://oikotimes.com/2015/02/01/live-from-nicosia-cyprus-decides-2015/
From: A. Papazian