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Cyprus: RIK’s special series “United by Music” for Eurovision 2024!

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RIK is preparing a special Eurovision show, which will be hosted by Andreas Anastasiou, the head of press for the Cypriot delegation to the competition. The show, named United By Music, will air on Sundays at 23:00 (Cypriot time), with the final episode airing on Tuesday from 21:00 to 22:00, right before the first semi-final, in which Cyprus also competes, begins.

Starting from this Sunday at 23.00 on RIK1, we will have the chance to watch a program devoted to the Eurovision contest and this year’s participation featuring “Liar” and Silia Kapsis.

Along with those who have associated their name with the competition, Andreas Anastasiou will talk about and offer commentary on all things related to Eurovision 2024. Head of Delegation Evi Papamichail, Loukas Hamatsos, who usually serves as Cyprus’ spokesperson, Melina Karageorgiou, who has been a contest commentator for a number of years, Hovig, who represented Cyprus in 2017 but will also be a commentator this year, Evdokia Kadi, who represented Cyprus in 2008, and many other beloved artists and fans of Eurovision will be present at “United by Music”.

This year, Cyprus will be represented by Silia Kapsis and “Liar”. Silia Kapsis will open the first semi-final on May 7.

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Cyprus: Watch Silia Kapsis and her wonderful team dancing “Liar” !

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A little earlier Silia Kapsis uploaded on her TikTok profile a video together with her four dancers dancing the chorus of Liar. Read more

Cyprus: “Liar” video clip teaser released!

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A little while ago, CYBC released a small teaser of Liar, the Cypriot entry for Eurovision 2024. In the teaser we see an excerpt from the video clip, which as you remember was filmed at the City of Dreams in Limassol. Once again Silia Kapsis proves how strong she is in dance, giving us just a small sample of what she prepares for the stage.

Liar, with which Silia Kapsis will represent Cyprus in the 68th Eurovision Song Contest, is signed by Dimitris Kontopoulos and Elke Tiel. The video clip was directed by Kostas Karydas and will be released in exactly one week, on February 29.

What did you think of the Liar teaser? Tell us in the comments below!

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Cyprus: On February 29 the most likely release date of “Liar” | EXCLUSIVE

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Αccording to our exclusive information, the most likely release date for “Liar”, this year’s Cypriot entry in the Eurovision contest, is February 29.

The plan of RIK and the artistic team is to release the video clip of Liar, the song with which Silia Kapsis will represent Cyprus at Eurovision 2024, on February 29. Unless, of course, something unexpected happens that will overturn all this design.

As we have already informed you with our previous articles, this week Silia returns from Los Angeles to Athens. After making the final recording of the song, she will go with the artistic team to Cyprus, so that next weekend she can start filming the video clip.

The director of the video clip is going to be Kostas Karydas, one of the most renowned directors in Greece, but also with a lot of experience from the Eurovision contest, having directed Stefania’s and Amanda’s entries in 2021 and 2022 respectively, which  both ended up  in the top 10.

The video clip of this year’s Cypriot participation after several years will be shot entirely in Cyprus, specifically in Limassol and will contain a lot of exterior filming.

During her stay in Cyprus, Silia will speak to the Cypriot media and will also make television appearances. After the filming, Silia will return to Greece for the second part of her rehearsals, this time with the dancers who will accompany her on the Eurovision stage.

On the weekend during the filming, RIK and the artistic team, with the kind sponsorship of City of Dreams, the largest hotel complex in the country, is holding a media event for selected Eurovision sites, but also TV editors covering the Eurovision Song Contest. Of course Eurovisionfun will be there and bring you everything that happens. In addition, you can send your questions for Silia through our Instagram, since your ten best questions will be selected, so that we can address them to her in the interview we will conduct.

The Eurovision interest moves to Limassol, Cyprus next week and through Eurovisionfun, our social media and our YouTube channel you will be able to follow everything that will happen there!

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Cyprus: Silia is impressive in her first rehearsals!

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Earlier this week, Silia Kapsis began her final preparations for Eurovision 2024 in Los Angeles, under the supervision of her two choreographers Kelly Sweeney and Guy Groove. Already 70% of the choreography has been completed and the result is excellent.

Since the beginning of the week, Silia Kapsis has been in Los Angeles, starting intensive rehearsals for the choreography that she will present to us on stage in May at the Eurovision contest. The two acclaimed choreographers, Kelly Sweeney and Guy Groove, have worked with Silia before and have prepared something very impressive and demanding, which highlights the incredible talent of this year’s Cypriot representative in the contest.

We got a little taste of what the team has been up to so far and we can safely say that Silia’s performance is breath taking. She keeps the viewer’s gaze fixed on her from the first second, without at any point reminding of similar appearances we have seen in the competition.

The look will be young, modern, absolutely TV familiar. Besides, it was done after there was first the design of the leds and lights that will be used in the appearance of Silia, so that everything ties together harmoniously and creates a perfect result from all points of view.

Dimitris Kontopoulos and Ilias Kokotos are also in Los Angeles since yesterday, who arrived there to watch the rehearsals and their development.

Next week, Silia will go to Cyprus to give her first interviews to the country’s media, and then to shoot the Liar video clip. The director of the video clip will be Kostas Karydas, who was the director of Stefania’s Last Dance and Amanda’s Die Together.

With greater confidence and optimism, the Cypriot delegation, since everything they have planned for this year’s participation is slowly taking shape, continue their preparations for this year’s competition.

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Cyprus: Silia Kapsis will sing “Liar” at Eurovision 2024!

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As announced by the Cypriot broadcaster RIK-CyBc, the title of the song, with which Silia Kapsis will represent Cyprus at Eurovision 2024, is “Liar“. The song is composed by Dimitris Kontopoulos and the lyrics are written by ELKE, a well-known Dutch artist.

The production of the song was completed a few days ago in a recording studio abroad. The creative team is completely satisfied with the final result, while the excellent response the song has received from all parties involved has filled the Cypriot mission with enthusiasm.

Liar is a very contemporary pop dance track, with instrumentation and production that perfectly suits the explosive stage presence of Silia Kapsis.

Silia Kapsis is leaving for Los Angeles in the next few days to meet Kelly Sweeney and Guy Groove, the choreographers who will be in charge of her choreography, which will be seen on stage in May. Immediately afterwards she will return to Cyprus to shoot the official music video of the Cypriot entry.

 

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After the shooting of the music video, Silia Kapsis will travel to Greece, where she will make appearances in local media. The song is expected to be released in late February/early March, of course through RIK. Silia will remain in Athens until May, carrying out her final rehearsals for the competition.

The Cypriot delegation continues with a well-organized plan, its preparations for Eurovision 2024, always keeping a low profile, but hoping that it will manage to impress and be even higher on the scoreboard than Andrew Lambrou, who placed 12th, having an excellent performance last year.

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Cyprus: Silia Kapsis will represent the country at Eurovision 2024 with a song by Dimitris Kontopoulos!

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What has been the common secret for days has now become official. RIK some minutes ago during the presentation of its new programme, announced that Silia Kapsis will represent Cyprus in Eurovision 2024 with a song by Dimitris Kontopoulos! This will be the eighth different country that the distinguished Greek artist will represent in the contest and the first time we will see him in Cypriot colours!

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ERT Vs RIK: The Eurovision controversy continues | RIK’s response to EBU!

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The “civil war” that has broken out between ERT and RIK on the occasion of the Fame Story, which will be broadcast on STAR Channel in Greece and through which Cyprus intends to choose its representative for Eurovision 2024 continues, without defusing the crisis at least so far.

What has happened.

RIK’s decision to collaborate with Nikos Koklonis’ Barking Well Media, STAR Channel and PANIK Records for the production of Fame Story, which will be broadcast simultaneously in Greece (by STAR) and Cyprus (by RIK), has brought the two public broadcasters into conflict.

The trailer of the talent show, which although the word Eurovision is not mentioned as a trophy, but Europe’s biggest music competition, was the straw that broke the camel’s back for ERT, which believes that the exclusive rights to exploit the contest, which it has in Greece, are being violated.

Thus, according to what is reported today in the newspaper PARON, the EBU, at the request of ERT’s administration and Mr. Constantinos Zoulas, the EBU has proceeded to update the Eurovision 2024 regulations, sending them to all its members.

Fame Story controversy?

These new regulations, which seem to have been introduced by the EBU, after ERT’s intervention, bring obstacles to the talent show, at least having as its trophy the representation of Cyprus in the 67th Eurovision Song Contest, as it is implied in the relevant trailer, which continues to play on STAR’s frequency.

The new Eurovision 2024 rules

The new regulations state the following:

The organisation of the national selection of each EBU member must not violate the exclusivity of the rights of the participants of the other participating broadcasters of the other countries. Each national selection of a representative for Eurovision should be undertaken and organised under the exclusive control of each participating broadcaster. The organisation and production may not be subcontracted, except with the prior approval of the EBU. The national selections must be organised and televised nationally in the participating broadcaster’s country and on the participating broadcaster’s own EBU member channel.

EBU intervention

Following the publication of the trailer, the EBU wrote to RIK asking it to clarify the details of Fame Story and whether the production of this show in Greece by a private TV station violates the above mentioned regulations of the upcoming music competition.

This intervention was of course not at all accidental, as was the revision of the contest’s regulations, but came after ERT complained that it was violating its exclusive TV and commercial exploitation of Eurovision in Greece, an exclusivity for which it spends around 360,000 euros per year.

The letter from RIK to the EBU

According to information available to Eurovisionfun, RIK has sent a letter of reply to the EBU in which it claims that Fame Story is not a national final, but a talent show which will be included in its entertainment programme.

It is also stated that for Eurovision 2024, RIK will select its representative for Eurovision 2024 by direct award, as it has done in recent years. The artist will be selected from new talent that will emerge from both Fame Story and other young and talented artists.

Finally, it is emphasized in this letter that the final selection will take place in January 2024 through a TV show, which will be held in Nicosia. All of this of course as you can understand is contrary to what Nikos Koklonis (producer of Fame Story) revealed on air, in various interviews, and also included in the promo trailer of Fame Story.

Pending the EBU’s final decision

We now await with interest the final settlement of the issue by the EBU and whether or not it will finally allow, after the explanations of RIK, to be used as a method of selecting the artist that will represent Cyprus in Eurovision 2024. However, according to what has seen the light of publicity in the previous days, in any case, the people of RIK have prepared an alternative plan, since in no case they do not wish to disturb their relations with the EBU, but also to endanger the Cypriot participation in the contest.

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Sources: Eurovisionfun, Paron, Real News

Cyprus: More details revealed about the Eurovision 2024 entry selection show!

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Earlier today, on Open Channel’s morning show, Kalokairi #Yes, the businessman, producer and TV presenter Nikos Koklonis revealed that he will be the presenter of Fame Story, which will be on our screens from September on RIK and Star Channel.

The representative of Cyprus to be chosen through Fame Story

As Nikos Koklonis has already revealed, the talent show will be used as a selection method for the artist who will represent the island in Eurovision 2024, but will also win a contract with the recording label, PANIK Records.

Furthermore, he announced that the show is expected to start around the end of September and will be completed by the end of December.

Cyprus: All the details about the selection method for Eurovision 2024! | EXCLUSIVE

15 contestants on Fame Story

According to Nikos Koklonis’ statements, 15 candidates will enter the Academy and will claim not only the representation of Cyprus in the Contest, but also their inclusion in the music industry, as there will be opportunities for everyone (concerts, contracts with labels).

Students will receive many daily lessons in addition to music, such as Social Media Management, Styling, Public Relations and they will also be able to communicate with the world outside the show.

Finally, he announced that he can’t reveal the names of the Judges yet, but it was said that there are talks with big names for these positions, as well as those of the Coaches. In fact, we won’t only see singers in these roles.

Within the next few hours the Fame Story trailer is expected to be released, with over 1,000 entries having already been received.

You can also watch all his statements here:

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Cyprus: All the details about the selection method for Eurovision 2024! | EXCLUSIVE

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The talent show that will be used as a selection method for Cyprus in Eurovision 2024 will be Fame Story, which will be broadcast from September by the Cypriot National Broadcaster CyBC/RIK and by the Greek Chanel STAR. EurovisionFun spoke to the people of RIK and they bring you all the exclusive coverage with the first details of what we will see very soon. Until that, you can also read our previous article with the General Director of RIK announcing that there will be a selection process for Eurovision 2024.

“Fame Story” will be broadcast via RIK and STAR

Finally, the plans for the national selection are on going, with RIK, PANIK Records and Barking Well Media to cooperate for the “Fame Story” show. The show will return after many years in the Greek/Cypriot spotlight but quite different from the last one. This news was reported earlier this mornning from Super Katerina Morning Show

Some of the first details are that, during this summer, castings for the talent show will take place in various cities of Greece, Cyprus and foreign countries. The plan is that the show will to stast broadcasting from September with the final taking place during the Christmas holidays, so there will be plenty of time to find the right song and for the artist to get prepaired in order to represnt Cyprus to the 68th Eurovision Song Contest.

An episode will be broadcast daily in the afternoon, with scenes from the academy. The program will be marked as suitable for all. So don’t expect to see much of their daily life, like a regular reality show. Everythimg we will see will focus on the development and progress of the academy students, so we will see their lessons, rehearsals and in general their preperation for the weekly live.

Sixteen artists will be chosen for the music academy, with one of the artists leaving each week in the live show. Discussions have already began with famous artists to be a member of the jury. One of them is Anna Vissi, the Greek Representative when Greece hosted the contest back in 2006.

At the end of this month, people of the national broadcaster will be in Athens to formalize the concept. Afterwards, there will be a relevant trailer calling for artists who would like to participate on the talent show and represent Cyprus in the song contest.

This year, Cyprus managed to achieve their second best result after Eleni Foureira in 2018. Andrew Lambrou finished 12th in the Grand Final with the song Break A Broken Heart.

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