Greece: ERT’s proposal to Fokas Evangelinos to take on the artistic direction of Marina Satti’s entry!

On “Super Katerina“, a greek morning TV show, it was revealed that Fokas Evangelinos has received an offer to take on the artistic direction of Marina Satti’s participation in Eurovision 2024.

According to Yiannis Poulopoulos’ information, the renowned choreographer has not yet responded to ERT’s proposal, as he is awaiting to listen to Marina Satti’s song first. Furthermore, he stated that Marina Satti’s song is not yet complete, and it has yet to be determined whether the singer will be accompanied by her own team of dancers.

Fokas Evangelinos, a Eurovision expert, has not yet taken on any entry this year. Evangelinos is a part of the Greek “Dream Team“, consisted of him, Dimitris Kontopoulos and Ilias Kokotos. The afore-mentioned tend to take over Eurovision projects together, as a team. This year, Dimitris Kontopoulos and Ilias Kokotos are behind Cyprus’ entry, “Liar”. However, Fokas Evangelinos is not a part of this certain project, as the artistic direction was taken over by Los Angeles based choreographers. Nevertheless and as mentioned exclusively to EurovisionFun, Dimitris Kontopoulos stated that he would be very happy if Evangelinos takes over for Greece and Marina Satti’s entry.

Fokas Evangelinos in Eurovision

Fokas Evangelinos has served as the choreographer and artistic director for many and successful Eurovision entries throughout the years. His expertise is really appreciated among participating delegations, which ask for his guidance. In detail, the following Eurovision entries were edited by Fokas Evangelinos:

2022: 8th place for Greece and Amanda Georgiadis Tenfjord with the song “Die Together”.

2021: 13th place for Moldova and Natalia Gordienko with the song “Sugar”.

2021: 10th place for Greece and Stefania with the song “Last dance”.

2019: 22nd place for Spain and Mickey Nunez with the song “La venda”.

2019: 3rd place for Russia and Sergey Lazarev with the song “Scream”.

2018: 10th place for Moldova and DoReDos with the song “My Lucky Day”.

2018: 11th place in the first semi-final for Azerbaijan and Aysel Mammadova with the song “X my heart”.

2017: 19th place for Greece and Demy with the song “This is love”.

2016: 3rd place for Russia and Sergey Lazarev with the song “You’re the only one”.

2014: 7th place for Russia and the Tolmachevy sisters with the song “Shine”.

2013: 2nd place for Azerbaijan and Farid Mammadov with the song “Hold me”.

2009: 7th place for Greece and Sakis Rouvas with the song “This is our night”.

2008: 1st place for Russia and Dima Bilan with the song “Believe”.

2008: 2nd place for Ukraine and Ani Lorak with the song “Shady Lady”.

2007: 6th place for Belarus and Dmitry Klodun with the song “Work your magic”.

2006: 2nd place for Russia and Dima Bilan with the song “Never let you go”.

2006: creative director of the Eurovision Song Contest held in Greece.

2005: 1st place for Greece and Helena Paparizou with the song “My Number One”.

2004: 3rd place for Greece and Sakis Rouvas with the song “Shake it”.

He has directed 17 entries in total of which 13 finished in top ten, a record that no other artistic director in the competition has ever achieved.

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