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Greece: Stefania's song for Eurovision 2021 released – Listen to "Last Dance"

Stefania will represent Greece at Eurovision Song Contest 2021, and has just released her song for Rotterdam. Listen to "Last Dance"

Greece were hoping for good results in Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with their "Superg!rl", Stefania being their representative before EBU's announcement of the contest cancellation.

The Greek broadcaster had faith in Stefania for 2020 and still have by internally selecting her once again for her shot to represent Greece at Eurovision Song Contest 2021 in Rotterdam.

Now Stefania and her team have released the Greek song for Eurovision 2021: "Last Dance".

Greece 2021: Stefania – "Last Dance"

Last Dance

Last Dance is composed by the composer group Arcade together with well-known Eurovision veteran Dimitris Kontopoulos (Δημήτρης Κοντόπουλος), who has several Eurovision hits on his CV, such as Scream (Russia 2019), You Are the Only One (Russia 2016) and Hold Me (Azerbaijan 2013). The lyrics are penned by Sharon Vaughn, who already has two songs selected for Eurovision 2021: Estonia's The Lucky One and Moldova's Sugar.

The staging will be in the hands of the Eurovision experienced Fokas Evaggelinos (Φωκάς Ευαγγελινός), who was the stage director of several Eurovision songs, including Scream (Russia 2019), My Lucky Day (Moldova 2018), You Are the Only One (Russia 2016), Hold Me (Azerbaijan 2013) and the Eurovision winner My Number One (Greece 2005).

Stefania

Stefania Liberakakis, known simply as Stefania, is a Greek-Dutch singer, actress and YouTuber. Stefania was born and raised in the Netherlands and, at a very young age, realized her love for music.

Shortly after Stefania turned 10, she convinced her parents to apply, on her behalf, for the acclaimed TV show The Voice Kids, where she made it through the audition stage. After the show, she became a member of the established children Choir, Kinderen voor Kinderen. In 2016 she was chosen by an internal committee to represent the Netherlands in the Eurovision Junior Contest in Valletta as part of the girl-band, Kisses. The group performed the 8th place song Kisses and Dancin.

In 2019, she released 3 new singles: Wonder, I Am Sorry and Turn Around. That same year, Stefania broke into the Greek market at the MAD VMA Awards where she performed a cover of the song Con Calma. Since 2018, the artist has taken part in 3 Dutch movies and acts as the lead in the well-known teenage series, Brugklas.

Greece in Eurovision Song Contest

Greece 2001: Antique - "Die For You"

Greece started its Eurovision adventure back in 1974, and has been participating in the contest 40 times until now.

They won Eurovision Song Contest in 2005 with the song "My Number One" performed by Helena Paparizou. Since the victory they have been very successful in Eurovision.

Greece 2001: Antique - "Die For You"

Greece has qualified for the Grand Final 14 out of 16 times (only missed the Grand Final in 2016 and 2018). Well done Greece! Since 2004 they have finished in top-10 nine out of 15 times. They never finished last in the contest.

About the author: Steven Spiteri (Malta)

authorSteven has been a huge Eurovision fan since 1995. He comes from a small town called Birkirkara located in Malta and graduated in Business & Administration. Steven follows all the national finals and Eurovision Song Contests every year especially Melodifestivalen and Eesti Laul. He has an endless list of favorites but the all time favorite entry would be Italy's 2016 entry "Nessun grado di separazione" by Francesca Michielin whilst Lisbon 2018 is his favorite Eurovision edition.



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