Greece: Stefania to perform the song "Last Dance" at Eurovision 2021

Greece: Stefania to perform the song
Thursday, 07 January 2021

  • The Greek national broadcaster, ERT, has revealed that the Greek Eurovision 2021 hopeful, Stefania, will be competing at Eurovision in Rotterdam with the song titled "Last Dance".

    Put your dance shoes on and take the dance floor as Stefania promises us that her Eurovision 2021 entry will certainly won't be the 'Last Dance' for us! Greece and ERT have decided: Among a total of 5 entries  the song that Stefania will perform in Rotterdam Ahoy next May is titled "Last Dance"

    Through a press release the Greek boradcaster revealed today that the song that will travel to Rotterdam with Stefania next May is the dance song "Last Dance" . The press release mentions: 

    With a dance song entitled "Last dance" Stefania Lymperakaki (Stefania) will represent Greece in the 65th Pan-European Song Contest of Eurovision 2021, held from 18 to 22 May in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, after its cancellation last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. "Last dance" is a composition by Dimitris Kontopoulos, Arcade, Sharon Vaughn, while the creative director for the visualization of the song will be Fokas Evangelinos.

    The relevant decision was taken jointly by the committee set up at ERT for the selection of the song, in collaboration with the artistic group of Stefania, which was assigned to take part in the 65th Eurovision, after listening to five songs proposed by the creators. It is reminded that Greece will appear in the Second Semifinal, which is scheduled for May 20, 2021.

     

     

    ERT's officials and the creative team ambition to bring Greece on the path of success with an uptempo dance floor, which will take it final version regarding the sound arrangement and the orchestration the next days. In the following days Stefania will be in Greece to record the final version of the song while next month the shooting of the official music video will take place. In addition the Greek delegation will have to prepare the live on tape video that EBU has requested for this year's edition due to the uncertainty cause of the covid-19 pandemic. 

    The official presentation of the song is expected to take place in March in a way that it hasn't yet been determined. 

     

    About Stefania

    Stefania Liberakakis was born 17 December 2002 in Utrecht, also known simply as Stefania, is a Greek–Dutch singer, actress, voice actress and YouTuber.

    Stefania is no stranger to the Eurovision family! In 2016 as member of the group  Kisses she represented The Netherlands in στην Junior Eurovision 2016 performing the song  Kisses and Dancin which came 8th.

    Earlier, in 2013, Liberakakis was a contestant in the third season of The Voice Kids in the Netherlands. She joined Team Borsato after her blind audition, but was eliminated in the battle rounds. She then joined the children’s choir Kinderen voor Kinderen, which she left after two years.

    In 2018, Liberakakis released her first solo single named “Stupid Reasons”. In 2019, she released three more singles: “Wonder”, “I’m Sorry (Whoops!)” and “Turn Around”.  From 2018 onwards, she stars as Fenna in the TV-series Brugklas (English: The First Years) and the movie Brugklas: De tijd van m’n leven. She also starred in other Dutch movies, including De Club van Lelijke Kinderen (as singer) and 100% Coco New York (as Lilly).[

    In June 2019, she performed a cover of the song “Con Calma” (together with Konnie Metaxa and Ilenia Williams) at the MAD Video Music Awards, which was broadcast on Greek television.

     In July the young talented act released a new uptempo single titled 'Friday',  which was  the second ESC 2020 candidate song for Greece. 

     

    Eurovision 2020

    Stefania was internally selected to represent Greece in Eurovision 2020 with her song 'Supergi!rl'. Unfortunately the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic depriving the young talented act from perform in Rotterdam. ERT had revealed that it will be continuing with Stefania in next year's edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, giving to the young talented act the chance to complete her Eurovision journey in Rotterdam. 

     

    News Source: ERT

    Image: Stefania FB