Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005

Cyprus participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005. Constantinos Christoforou was chosen to represent the country with song "Ela Ela (Come Baby)".

Eurovision Song Contest 2005
Country Cyprus
National selection
Selection processArtist: Internal Selection
Song: National Final
Selection date(s)Artist: 24 November 2004
Song: 1 February 2005
Selected entrantConstantinos Christoforou
Selected song"Ela Ela (Come Baby)"
Finals performance
Final result18th, 46 points
Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Constantinos was born in the town of Limassol, Cyprus. At the age of seventeen, he became the first Cypriot artist to achieve triple platinum sales, with an album that was recorded in Cyprus and not in Athens where the core of the music industry is located. In 2003, Constantinos started his solo career with the album I Agapi Sou Paei (Love Becomes You). He immediately reached No. 1 in the Greek airplay charts and the album reached gold sales in Cyprus. Constantinos is also a very successful songwriter and lyricist and he has composed songs for the most famous Greek singers. In September 2004 he released his second solo album Idiotiki Parastasi (Private Show). The album became gold in Cyprus immediately and is a huge radio hit in Greece.

Before Eurovision

Artist selection

On 24 November 2004, CyBC announced that they had internally selected Constantinos Christoforou to represent Cyprus in Kiev. Christoforou previously represented Cyprus at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1996 and 2002 (as part of One), placing ninth and sixth respectively.[1]

National final

Constantinos Christoforou's contest song was selected through a four-song national final. The four competing songs were announced on 28 January 2005.[2] Among the songwriters, Mike Connaris composed the Cypriot Eurovision entry in 2004.

The final took place on 1 February 2005 at the Monte Caputo Nightclub in Limassol, hosted by Tasos Tryfonos and Eleni Manousaki and broadcast on CySAT as well as online via cybc.cy.[3] All four competing songs were performed by Constantinos Christoforou and the winning song, "Ela Ela", was selected by a combination of votes from public televoting (60%) and a seven-member jury panel (40%).[4] The jury panel consisted of Ruslana (Eurovision Song Contest 2004 winner), Evridiki (1992 and 1994 Cypriot Eurovision representative), Dimitris Korgialas (composer), Dafni Bokota (singer and television presenter), Evi Papamichael (Head of Delegation for Cyprus at Eurovision), Sokratis Soumelas (EMI Greece representative) and Nikos Nikolaou. In addition to the performances of the competing songs, the show featured guest performances by Ruslana, Evridiki and Dimitris Korgialas.

DrawSong Composer(s)Place
1"Slow" Constantinos Christoforou2
2"She's No Fool" Mike Connaris3
3"If You Go" Mike Connaris4
4"Ela Ela" Constantinos Christoforou1

At Eurovision

Constantinos was joined by Elena Patroklou, who already represented Cyprus in 1991 where she ended up 9th with her song "S.O.S".

Cyprus automatically qualified to the grand final, because it was on the top 12 last year. He performed 9th, following Albania and preceding Spain. Cyprus ended 18th with 46 points. As Cyprus failed to reach top 11 in the final, the country was forced to compete in semi-final of the 2006 Contest.

The spokesperson who revealed Cyprus's votes for other countries was Melani Steliou, a CyBC host.[5]

Points awarded by Cyprus

Points awarded to Cyprus
Points awarded to Cyprus (final)
12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points
5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point

References
  1. Bakker, Sietse (23 November 2004). "Constantinos Christoforou for Cyprus". Esctoday.
  2. "Four songs for Constantinos Christoforou". Esctoday. 28 January 2005.
  3. "Four songs for Constantinos Christoforou". Esctoday. 28 January 2005.
  4. "Cyprus 2005".
  5. Philips, Roel (2005-05-17). "The 39 spokespersons!". ESCToday. Archived from the original on 2005-12-19. Retrieved 2009-04-27.
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