Cyprus 2015: Minus One or Evangelou & Savva?
Tonight the first round of Eurochallenge decided the ten songs to advance to next round of Eurochallenge. Escpecially two groups were in a league of their own
The show was like a karaoke-night, with no audience and no stage-show. The twenty artists performed their song in front of a jury in a TV-studio. The quality of the songs varied a lot, so did the genres. Especially two songs were in a league of their own, and we believe that one of these will represent Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna.
The first song we believe in is the rock ballad song " Shine" by the rockgroup Minus One, and the other song with great chances is the greek/french song "Dila den agapo" ("Δειλά δεν αγαπώ") performed by Nearchos Evangelou & Charis Savva, a dramatic pop ballad with two amazing voices.
10 songs are ready for the second round of Eurochallenge 2015
• Panagiotis Koufogiannis - "Without Your Love"
• Pieros Kezou - "Said it All Before"
• Minus One - "Shine"
• Charis Savva & Nearchos Evaggelou - "Dila Den Agapo"
• Ioanna Protopapa - "Beat Of My Heart"
• Christina Tselepou - "In These Arms"
• Doody - "Magic"
• Giannis Karagiannis - "One Thing I Should Have Done"
• Hovig - "Stone In A River"
• Christos Rialas - "Mine"
Eurochallenge
Cyprus has six auditions and three shows to pick the winner that will represent Cyprus at Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna. The first six auditions called "Eurovision Song Project" selects the 20 songs that will go through to the next step: "Eurochallenge". Here 10 songs will procede to the next round of Eurochallenge, which will be aired 23 January 2015. The six best songs will proceed to the Final 1 February 2015.
The jury
The jury consist of seven experts, including three former Cypriot Eurovision-artists: Elena Patroklou ( 1991) , Alex Panayi (1995 & 2000) and Despina Olympiou (2013). Tasos Trifonos, Christer Bjorkman, Dimitris Kontopoulos and Bruno Berberes.
Cyprus in Eurovison Song Contest
Since Cyprus debuted in Eurovision Song Contest in 1981, the country has not yet managed to win in any of the 31 times the country has participated. Since the introduction of the semi-finals in 2004, Cyprus has only qualified for four finals. Best location is three fifth places (1982, 1997, 2004), and the worst is last place in 1986.
