I'm a 26 year old guy who is a big fan of Marina Diamandis, Kpop, Britney Spears and the Eurovision Song Contest. I also like videogames so expect stuff related to Pokémon or any other franchise that works on a Nintendo or even a Sony platform.
Alex Panayi. One of the contenders for the title of Mr. Eurovision. He’s never won it (well he kind of has…), but since 1989 he’s been trying. In 1995 he won the Cypriot selection for the first time. Not his first time there, he came third both in 1990 and 1993. He’s also already appeared on a Eurovision stage twice, sing backing vocals for Cyprus’s 1989 and 1991 entries. So at the fifth time of asking he’s there with his five female backing singers doing it for Cyprus.
And what a song it is. More epic history. Στη φωτιά (Sti Fotia/In the Fire) is effectively a grand stage musical production number with a Greek flavour, about a man on a quest. A man who faces his challenges. A man who changes history. And he does it emerging from underneath a big sheet, accompanied by timpani and a gong, while wearing leather trousers. It was written by him with an emphasis on the drama which he delivers while commanding the Dublin stage.
How he only managed to come ninth I don’t know - this is fantastic.
Now that Alex has had a taste of Eurovision he’s going to find it hard to quit. He tries in again in 1999, gets back on the Eurovision stage in 2000, sings backing on a number of other songs in the early 2000s (including the winner in 2005), gets into stage direction and vocal training. This is the man who coached Helena Paparizou, Sergey Lazarev, Dihaj and DoReDos with their voices. His last involvement in Eurovision was in 2019. He’s also voiced many Disney characters in Greek, produced his own musicals and worked for cancer and Alzheimer’s charities in Cyprus.
