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Austrian Drag Artist Conchita Wurst Wins 2014 Eurovision; Greece Ends 20th

The winner of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest is Conchita Wurst from Austria with the song "Rise Like A Phoenix." The 25-year-old drag artist whose real name is Thomas "Tom" Neuwirth and on stage presents an image of a woman with a...

Greece Goes to Eurovision Grand Final with "Rise Up"

After qualifying at the Eurovision semi-final tonight, the song "Rise Up" by Freaky Fortune and RiskyKidd will represent Greece at the Grand Final of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest. Nine more countries qualified for Europe's biggest music night. "It was crazy, I...

Greece Sends 'Rise Up' to Eurovision Song Contest 2014

Greece has made a decision on who will represent the country in Eurovision 2014. The winning song of the televised Greek show is “Rise Up” by Freaky Fortune feat. Riskykidd. The young act who is well on their way to...

Greece Makes it to Eurovision Song Contest

Greece will once again be participating in the Eurovision song contest in Copenhagen, Denmark, in May. As announced by EBU, the radio and television broadcaster NERIT will be in charge of organizing the Greek entry and broadcasting the contest. Thirty six...

Cyprus Out of Eurovision 2014

Crushed by a growing economic crisis that has seen the government seize nearly half the bank deposits of more than 100,000 euros ($130,000) in private accounts to pay for bank mismanagement, Cyprus can't afford to send an act to...

Ilias Kozas: We went to Eurovision with only €5

Ilias Kozas made a guest appearance on the Greek TV show Proino mou, on May 21 and talked about his participation in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. The lead singer of the band Koza Mostra, which has become one of...

My Number One Is Now Eight

Eight years have gone by since the great success of 23-year-old then Helena Paparizou, who came first in the 50th Eurovision song contest on May 21, 2005, in Kiev, the day that was also her name day. My Number One...

Even Bild Admired Agathonas At Eurovision

Cheery, dynamic, professionally perfect and above all optimistic, Koza Mostra along with the “heavy artillery,” the Greek folk singer of rebetiko Agathonas Iakovidis, managed to stir up Eurovision despite only a sixth-place finish among 26 countries. The Greek group's performance...

Eurovision Results: Denmark Wins; Greece Comes 6th

Denmark's Emmelie de Forest won the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest - with Greece's Agathon and Koza Mostra finishing 6th. Greece participated in the competition with the song "Alcohol is Free," s a fusion between electronic dance and rebetiko sounds. The 20-year-old...

Lesbian Kiss, Greek Politics Hit Eurovision

Eurovision, the pop-schmaltz-saccharine-kitsch song contest that is known for bad taste and fantasy tunes that avoid the real world, has had a taste of gay marriage and Greek politics thrown into the mix for this year’s final in Malmo,...