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Greece: What time and where will we listen to the Greek entry! EXCLUSIVE

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Greece’s turn to reveal the respective entry for Eurovision 2022 is around the corner, as on Thursday March 10, according to the trailer released by ERT, we will see the official video clip and we will listen to the Greek entry of Eurovision 2022.

 

Through the TV program ‘Studio 4’, the video clip of the Greek participation will be broadcast for the first time, which of course was directed by Costas Karydas in the beautiful Symi. But when will it be available on other platforms? Eurovisionfun comes to answer this question, which concerns all Greeks and foreign eurofans.

So, the video clip will be broadcast first in Studio 4, tomorrow Thursday March 10. The TV program is scheduled from 15.00 until 17.00 (CET)
Immediately after its broadcast in Studio 4, the video clip will be available exclusively on ERTflix.
Shortly afterwards and more specifically at 18.00 (CET), the song will be available on all music platforms, while the video clip will be available on Amanda’s YouTube channel.

Greece comes to Eurovision 2022 with demands and hopes, since despite the leak of an unfinished demo, remains stable in the top five of the bets for the victory in the music competition that will take place the upcoming May in Turin.

We remind you that the song with which Amanda Georgiadi (Tenfjord) will represent Greece in the competition was written by herself together with Bjorn Helge, while main role in the production had Dimitris Kontopoulos. The staging director of the Greek entry is Fokas Evangelinos and the project manager is Elias Kokotos. The head of the mission of the Greek delegation is Sofia Dranidou, with Dora Chiraki, director of corporate communication of ERT, to be the one who makes all the decisions, having the general supervision of the Greek public television.

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Greece: ERT releases trailer for the announcement of the Greek entry!

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ERT, the Greek Broadcasting Corporation, confirmed a little while ago everything that we knew already, that the video clip of the song with which Amanda Georgiadis Tenfjord will represent Greece at Eurovision 2022, will be published on Thursday, March 10, from the TV program ”Studio 4” at 3 pm (CET)!

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Greece: On March 10, through the main news bulletin of ERT, the revelation of Amanda’s song!

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The decision has been made and ERT finalized the date of the announcement of the Greek participation in Eurovision 2022. According to our information, the video clip of the song, with which Amanda will compete in Turin, will be published through the main news bulletin of ERT1 , on Thursday, March 10, at 9 p.m. Of course, if the news does not allow it, the announcement will take place from one of the ERT shows (eg Studio 4).

Everything is ready and ERT’s initial intention was for the videoclip to be released next Thursday, March 3. Unfortunately, the dramatic developments in Ukraine, with the Russian troops at the gates of Kiev, pushed them to postpone the publication of the Greek entry for a week.

With Greece in fourth place in bets, despite the leak of just an unfinished demo, optimism is pervasive on the ERT’s headquarters that the country will manage in Eurovision 2022 to take an even better position than last year. So, wanting to give as much attention as possible to Amanda’s song, ERT decided to postpone the release of the video clip for next Thursday, March 10. Of course, there is no guarantee that the situation in Ukraine will be better next week, but nevertheless the Greek public television wants to exhaust every possible margin.

The countdown is now officially starting!

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Greece: Listen to ”A World On Fire” by Joanna Drigo, which reached the final selection phase!

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The song A World On Fire, with which Joanna Drigo reached the final selection phase of ERT for Eurovision 2022, was recently released by the record company The Hubsters.

Joanna Drigo was one among the five proposals, that the committee of ERT chose for the final selection phase, in view of the representation of Greece at Eurovision 2022.

We remind that the rest four artists of the final stage were Good Job Nicky (Nikolas Varthakouris), Elias Kozas, Lou Is and Amanda Tenfjord (Georgiadis). The latter won the internal selection process, representing eventually Greece at Eurovision 2022.

You can listen to the song here:

What is your opinion? Would it be a good choice for Greece in this year’s competition?

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Greece: Amanda will be a guest in the final of MGP 2022!

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As she revealed with a tweet a few minutes ago, the greek representative at Eurovision 2022, Amanda Georgiadis Tenfjord, will be a guest at MGP 2022, the national final of Norway, which takes place tonight.

Amanda will be the only guest in the Norwegian national final, which goes to show that she and her work are well respected in the country where she grew up and took her first steps as an artist. The greek team of course hopes that this will translate to some points as well in May, like it happened last year with Stefania and the Netherlands.

You can watch the final of MGP 2022 tonight at 19.55 (CET) clicking here.

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EXCLUSIVE: The American Song Contest on ERT!

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ERT has secured the rights for all eight shows of the American Song Contest, which starts on March 22 and will be broadcast weekly on NBC.

The American Song Contest will be hosted by Snoop Dog and Kelly Clarkson and will involve the 50 US states, the five overseas US possessions and the capital, Washington.

The contest will consist of three rounds: the qualifiers, the semifinals and the grand final. In the grand final, the finalist states will compete for the title of “Best Original Song” of the USA.

The 56 participating artists are expected to be announced in the near future, as there are exactly five weeks left until the start of the American Song Contest.

All of the above will Greek viewers will have the chance to watch them through the ERT, since it will broadcast all eight shows. Greece is added to the list of countries (Iceland, Sweden, Finland, Spain), which have already announced that they will broadcast the competition.

However, this is not the only TV surprise that ERT is preparing on the road to Eurovision 2022…

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Greece: In the island of Symi will take place the video clip of the song!

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The choice of ERT and the artistic team for the location where the video clip of the Greek entry will be shot is the beautiful and closed to the borders, Symi.

An end of Greece, in which, however, the heart of Hellenism beats loudly, will be the shooting of the video clip of Amanda’s song for Eurovision 2022. Next week Amanda together with Kostas Karydas (the director), members of the Greek delegation, but also a crew of ERT will travel to Symi in order to film the video clip.

As we revealed to you in our previous article, ERT wanted the Greek element to be seen through the video clip. But do not wait to see a video clip type postcard, in the video there will be a story that will unfold in the beautiful landscapes of Symi. This is the image that Greece will send to millions of viewers this year through the video clip of its participation in the contest. ERT’s message to many recipients is clear. On a remote island that can be just 10 minutes from Turkey and 10 hours from Athens, will shoot the video clip of our nation’s participation in Eurovision 2022.

Amanda arrives in Athens on Sunday and will leave as we mentioned above immediately for Symi, where she will stay for three days. ERT with a crew that will have in Symi and through Studio 4, but also its news bulletins will inform us about the shooting with a rich background and related videos.

Greece continues to be in the top ten of bets, while Amanda is in the highest position in the betting table in relation to the countries that have announced an artist or a song, filling smiles and optimism in ERT’s offices. Despite the positive messages, however, all those involved keep their tones low, but preparing in the background every little detail for the Greek entry this year, hoping that in May the result will justify them.

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EXCLUSIVE: Why did ERT not hold a national final for Eurovision 2022?

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It was a keen desire of most of the fans that ERT would be holding a national final giving the public the opportunity to choose the Greek representative for Eurovision 2022. What did occur and a national final never happened? What stopped the Greek national broadcaster’s administration from fullfilling an intention they indeed had?

Procedure beggins with no chance of a national final

As you might remember we had already informed you about ERT having a national final out of their plans, at least for this year. That was the information we had at this very point and this is the reason we were so definite about it. But let’s start from the beggining.

At early September ERT initiates the call for participations, giving that way officialy the opportunity to any artist, creator, company, records label who is interested submitting their suggestion. At that time, a national final was not even a thought. The reason is simple. No one expected the interest people showed, that got translated into entries, NOR the  high quality of the songs submitted.

On October 10th the deadline for the submitions is over and ERT now has to choose between more than 40 songs. The procedure has already been announced by Dimitris Papadimitriou. The jury members would hear the songs, rate them individually and the top 5 would be moving onto the second and final phase of the selection.

Thoughts about a TV show

At this point the ERT administratives start thinking about a possible national final, as they think they have 5 songs that could fit such a concept and hold a decent show. For that reason the head of delegation gets the permission to ask all the finalists whether they would be interested in such a show. Keep in mind that this was essential as the earliest ERT’s proclamation did not refer to that at all.

After communicating with all the 5 finalists (still not publically known), the HoD received 3 negative answers, 1 positive and 1 “maybe”. The doubts of the artists, and their labels, did mostly refer to the on-screen result, the televoting transparency, and their personal style that could possibly not fit to such an event.

ERT, however, kept on trying by suggesting a national final in which the jury vote would be more powerful than televoting, as happens in Romania or Malta. They also suggested the national final taking place on Kostis Maravegias’ show (“Dynata“), which is closer to the 5 finalists musical profile but even then the objections were not avoided.

One-way decision

Under the fear of people suddenly withdrawing, ERT decided to go on with the internal selection publishing the top 5 artists. Still wanting to somehow keep the public involved, they suggested assuming the production of their tracks and releasing them through their radio in order to get a feedback from the public before the commitee gets their final decision. The finalists and their labels did not accept that either, as they insisted on keeping the songs and releasing them the way they wanted to.

More or less this was the background of the previous months and we can now, almost a month after Amanda has officialy been announced as the Greek representative, reveal it to you.

What about the future?

We, as Eurovisionfun, are wondering whether the artists this year would bother submitting their entries if they had been aware of a national final from the start. Based on the previous facts, probably not.

The decision ERT has to take for the future is exactly what type of entries do they want. This question is already being discussed in ERT’s offices, while their goal is keeping the quality high while also keeping the public and eurofans involved to the selection. However a national final is not the only way to do so, and this is exactly what the greek delegation is lately working on.

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Greece: Amanda Georgiadis Tenfjord will represent the country at Eurovision 2022!

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Through Studio 4 on ERT1, the long-awaited revelation of the name of the artist who will raise the Greek flag in May in Turin took place a while ago. The announcement was made by Greece’s representative at Eurovision 2021, Stefania, live from the Netherlands.

The 24-year-old Greek-Norwegian Amanda Georgiadis, or Amanda Tenfjord as she is artistically known, whom we first presented to you as our possible representative on June 7, 2021, was announced officialy as the Greek represantative in the 66th Eurovision Song Contest which is going to be held in Turin, Italy. On the stage of Pala Alpitour she will perform a ballad written by her in lyrics and music, under the direction of Fokas Evangelinos, while the project manager of the project will be Ilias Kokotos.

ERT’s artistic committee evaluated the proposals of 25 artists and singled out the top five artists, who had private meetings at the ERT’s headquarters with the committee and the management of Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. After these meetings, where the candidates presented more details (stage appearance, song promotion, video clip designs, etc.), the competent committee considered Amanda’s proposal to be more complete, taking into account first the song, but also the above important factors.

The committee consisted of the following:

  • Dimitris Papadimitriou, composer – President
  • Maria Kozakou, Director of the Second Program of the NRA, commentator of the Eurovision Song Contest
  • Fotis Apergis, director of ERT radio
  • Peter Adam, music producer
  • Giannis Petridis, music producer
  • Konstantinos Bourounis, head of ERT’s youth program
  • Leonidas Antonopoulos, Journalist & music producer

Amanda’s Proposal

Her proposal includes a song, which as you read in our previous articles, is an inner ballad, written by her, that leads the listener to an explosion of emotions. The song was written after her separation, with a long-term relationship.

It was a painful separation and my feelings were extreme. When I was writing it, of course, I did not have in mind the Eurovision Song Contest, but when the idea came to me to take part in the Greek selection, everyone who listened to this song told me that this would be an ideal participation for both my country and me.

Amanda

The producer and orchestrator of the song is Bjørn Helge Gammelsæter, a Norwegian musician with several important collaborations to his credit.

The feeling caused by Amanda’s melody and interpretation is so intense that I wanted the approach to production to be as abstract as possible. I used a vocoder, something that makes the song very special without losing its sensitivity. The orchestration of the song has been built around Amanda’s voice so that her unique tone is not lost.

Bjørn Helge Gammelsæter

Fokas Evangelinos, who strongly believes in her participation, will take over her stage appearance in Turin, if of course she is selected.

From the first moment I saw Amanda and heard her song, I felt that she has this unique and special thing that the Eurovision contest demands. Amanda herself has a special beauty and a charm that attracts you from the first moment you see her, while her song creates strong emotions that can lead to a very special scene. presence that will make her stand out.

Fokas Evangelinos

The director of the video clip of the song will be Kostas Karydas, the same director who took over Stefania. The successful director gives us a small hint, for the result we will see, in case Amanda is the final choice of ERT.

I find the song excellent and Amanda a girl with very special beauty. The track has a strong introversion and I think that cinematically I have to move in the opposite direction to have a very interesting result. Because I recognize that in the Eurovision Song Contest the ethnic elements in the music of the songs are obsolete, we will try to include the Greek element in the video clip, as we did last year with Stefania.

Kostas Karydas

Project Manager of the whole effort will be Ilias Kokotos, through whom Amanda was approached by ERT. We remind you that Ilias Kokotos, project manager of all Dream Team participations in the competition, was the one who proposed Stefania to ERT in the fall of 2019.

Who Is Who

Amanda Georgiadis, 24, was born in Oslo but lived the first years of her life in Ioannina, where she visits every summer as her family maintains a home in the area.

At the age of 3, her parents decide to move to the small town of Tenfjord in Norway. At the age of 5 she started taking piano lessons and became an amateur musician, writing her first songs as a teenager. At the age of 18 she began her studies in medicine, while at the same time taking part in various festivals. 

She released her first EP, “First impression” under the stage name Amanda Tenfjord, from the city from which she grew up and received excellent reviews. Her second EP includes the song “Then I fell in love” which is a great radio success, remaining for over 20 weeks in the official top 10 radio chart of Norway. In 2020 Netflix includes the song “Troubled Water” in the series “Spinning out”.

 

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Greece: ERT announces today the artist for Eurovision 2022!

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The time has come! ERT with a relevant trailer that is already on the air, informs us that today will announce the artist who will represent Greece in the 66th Eurovision Song Contest! 

Through Studio 4, as we had informed you in a series of our previous articles, the long-awaited revelation of the name of the artist who will raise the Greek flag in May in Turin will take place. Live from the Netherlands, Stefania, will announce the singer who will be the next greek representer.

The choice was made as you already know in two phases. In the first phase, the competent jury of ERT chose between 25 artists and about 40 songs, the five best with an equal number of performers. These were (alphabetically):

  • Amanda Georgiadis Tenfjord
  • Good Job Nicky
  • Joanna Drigo
  • Lou is
  • Elias Kozas

 

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Then the above five artists after having private meetings at the ERT’s headquarters, with the jury and the management of ERT, presenting more details of their proposal (stage appearance, promotion of the song, plans for the video clip etc) came to its final decision, which we will learn about this afternoon.

The committee consists of the following:

  • Dimitris Papadimitriou, composer – President
  • Maria Kozakou, Director of the Second Program of the NRA, commentator of the Eurovision Song Contest
  • Fotis Apergis, director of ERT radio
  • Peter Adam, music producer
  • Giannis Petridis, music producer
  • Konstantinos Bourounis, head of ERT’s youth program

Earlier than ever and with more hopes and expectations even from this year, ERT begins its journey for Eurovision 2022.

 

See you at 15.00 cet, in Studio 4 to find out the answer!

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