The Cypriot broadcaster CyBC has announced that Sophia Patsalides will represent the nation for the first time since their return to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest this year. The 13 year old Nicosian will sing “I pio omorfi mera” at the contest, held in Malta Shipbuilding in November, after being internally selected by CyBC. The song has both Greek and …
Cyprus returns: What do you think?
Cyprus was announced today by the EBU as the first official returnee of 2015 and their selection looks set to be a real highlight of the upcoming national final season. Appearing to take a leaf out of Melodifestivalen’s book, the Cypriot broadcaster CyBC is planning to hold a series of live selection shows where a combination of televoting and jury …
Cyprus: Participation confirmed, selection process announced
Putting an end to all speculations, Cyprus has finally confirmed their participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015! The Cypriot broadcaster CyBC published a detailed document regarding their plans for next year’s competition – and it looks like the Mediterranean island will have their biggest selection process ever! How will the Cypriot entry be chosen? The voting process will be …
JESC: Cyprus Returns
After a four year gap, Cypriot national TV company CyBC, have announced that they will return to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest this year. Cyprus participated in the first ever Junior Eurovision Song Contest back in 2003 and have participated in six contests since then, Junior Eurovision Fans will happy to hear that they will participate for a seventh time …
Cyprus: Decision on 2015 soon
Greek language news website Philenews has reported that CyBC, the national broadcaster of Cyprus, is indeed interested in returning to the contest in 2015 but that an official decision will be made within the next week or so. It is currently undecided as to what format a Cypriot entry would be selected with, but an earlier report by London Greek …
Cyprus Bows Out of ESC 2014
The Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC) has announced, via its official website, that the Mediterranean island country will not be participating in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen. CyBC’s board said that they reached the decision after determining a need to cut spending on programs, despite public interest. Cyprus has had a bumpy history with placing in Eurovision, having qualified to the …
Rehearals – Day 2 Interviews
ESC United talked to all 8 acts that had their first rehearsals today. They will be performing in the second half of Semi Final 1 at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden. The Semi Final will take place exactly one week from today (Tuesday, May 14th, 2013) so let’s get to know them a little better. 1. Montenegro …
The 2013 “Expert” Panel – CYPRUS
Every year our “Expert” Panel comes together to judge all entries for the Eurovision Song Contest and they’re back to take apart the 2013 entries and rank them accordingly. While their characters and comments may be wacky, the scores are dead serious. All 13 panelists will comment on the song and rank them accordingly giving it points using a scale …
Cyprus – Despina Olympiou’s song “An Me Thimase” released
Despina’s ballad “An Me Thimase” was reavealed by the broadcaster today. The singer, who is quite known in Greece and Cyprus and the entry has been composed by Andreas Giorgallis and penned by Xenon Zindilis. [vsw id=”gSvv7ie0Hio” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”] Let us know what you think, the ESC UNITED community is already talking among themselves and you can …
Despina Olympiou for Cyprus
The broadcaster announced that Despina Olympiou will fly the Flag for Cyprus in Malmo. The 37 year old singer was selected internally by CyBC and her song will be in Greek. This song will be truly a song from Cyprus as the singer as well as Andreas Giorgallis (music) and Zenon Zindilis (lyrics) are Cypriot citizens. Unfortunately we don’t have …