EUROVISION SONG CONTEST 2004
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Every year it is a great pleasure watching Greece participating in
the Eurovision Song Contest. Greek contributions were often exotic
and touched by the county's charming folkloristic scene. There is a
lively musical scene in Greece and particularly over the recent
years many of the country's popular singers were sent to
participate. For example the singer Mando with "Never Let Go" in
Riga 2003, the group Antique who went 3rd with their song "Die For
You" (Copenhagen 2001) and Michalis Rakintzis with S.A.G.A.P.O.
(Tallinn 2002).

There were some problems choosing this years Greek entry: originally
the plan was to send the winner of a TV-show called "Eurostar" to
Istanbul but then the Greek TV-station ERT chose singer Sakis Rouvas
internally. The attractive singer was borne on the island of Corfu
(as was Vicky Leandros), has a lot of stage experience and has
already appeared singing with Anna Vissi. He is very popular in
Greece indeed. The song "Shake It" is a modern, catchy up-tempo
song - not sounding Greek at all - it's more Ricky Martin like
(including Sakis' hip movements…). His motto for Istanbul is "You
have seen nothing yet!". Well, we can't wait!


From the link:
http://www.eurovisionlive.com/englisch/archiv/2004/griechenland.htm
Once again I am posting this article here instead at the "Links"
section because I am afraid that the link will be updated with info
about ESC 2005, that is coming up.