You can’t break a broken heart, but you can definitely change your plans! Cyprus’ broadcaster CyBC was planning to use a talent show as selection format for Eurovision 2024, even before the contest in Liverpool happened. The preparations for the show are underway — but now everything has changed completely.
Soon after CyBC confirmed that it would use Fame Story as their method of selecting an act for Malmö, Greek broadcaster ERT started complaining. They were reportedly unhappy with the show being produced in Greece. Additionally, Fame Story was meant to not only air in Cyprus but also in Greece on Star Channel – which also bent ERT out of shape. So the broadcaster decided to contact EBU and file a complaint. Now guess what? The EBU actually agreed with the Greek broadcaster and contacted CyBC to clarify the situation.
According to reports, one of EBU’s rules for the competition says that a national final should only be produced in the respective broadcasters’ country. They need to get a special permit to produce and air it in another country, and the EBU obviously didn’t give such a permit to Cyprus. This reportedly led to CyBC’s decision to axe its plans to use Fame Story as the official Eurovision selection show.
The Cypriot broadcaster initially thought about staging a new selection show in January. But this plan also got scraped. That’s because CyBC has apparently found an artist (and allegedly a song) suitable for next year’s contest in Sweden. This means: Cyprus already decided on their entry for 2024!
As a result, Fame Story will now not even broadcast on CyBC, but on a private TV channel in Cyprus. It will still be a talent show which determines a future star for Cyprus and Greece but it no longer has any connection to Eurovision. All of this this leads to one big question: Who could possibly represent Cyprus in Malmö?
Who will sing for Cyprus at Eurovision 2024?
According to reports, the delegation in Cyprus is already very confident about their act and expect to place high at Eurovision in 2024. Could this mean they managed to get Eleni Foureira back? The Fuego-singer already expressed her interest to return to the competition one day. During an interview earlier this year she teased a possible return – but this time for Greece.
Another name that’s been circulating within the Eurovison bubble for years is Greek-American singer Evangelia. She managed to gain a lot of fans over the past few years with her captivating, contemporary songs – which often combine Greek and Western elements. Evangelia has already collaborated with Eurovision 2022 singer Amanda Tenfjord and megastar Eleni Foureira, and she publicly confirmed her intentions to represent Cyprus or Greece at Eurovision. Last year her song “Páli” got rejected by the Greek broadcaster ERT. She’s managed by PANIK Records.
Antigoni has also tried to get the Eurovision ticket before. With her raspy voice, she’s already gained numerous followers and fans, so the contest in Malmö next year would be a great next step in her career. Antigoni was born in London but is of Greek-Cypriot origin.
With Nikos Gkanos, Sandro (who was chosen to represent Cyprus in 2020 but in the end never did due to Covid) and Leon of Athens, male singers also remain on the list of possible Eurovision acts for Cyprus. All of them have shown interest in the past and could possibly represent Greece or indeed Cyprus next year in Malmö, Sweden.
What do you think of Cyprus and selecting an artist internally again? Who could represent the island in 2024 at Eurovision? Let us know in the comments below.
I think today’s the day we’re going to find out who is going to represent Cyprus for Eurovision 2024.
Well, that aged well. Still no artist announced. Guess we’ll have to wait later.
Why wiwi cannot leave Evangelia and Eleni alone. Obviously it wont be them.
I know right? I don’t even know how they came up with the Ganos guy. He is irrelevant.
It better be Silia Kapsis.
Evridiki, for the fourth time. You know you want to, just do it.
Cyprus have a LOT of potential to do well and even WIN Eurovision 2024, if not 2025 or sometime in the next few years and I’ll tell you why: because their broadcaster is now actually listening to what the people want. Fame Story sounded like it was going to Abe one of the best national finals ever in terms of the talent that came out of it and they were going to get that act on with a new song too. This was a big innovative step forward for Cyprus. Despite them not going ahead with it, the fact that… Read more »
They will go for (yet another) australian who has recorded with Kontopoulos and whose moat popular video on YT counts 4 thousand views. Yawn….
It’s most likely Silia Kapsis. And I’m not happy. Her entire brand looks AI-generated, the entry will be produced by the “dream team” and it’s rumoured to be the song that was supposed to be representing Russia in 2022 … not to mention she’s 16 which is way too young for the esc stage most of the time.
Cyprus maybe next year. But you’ll probably qualify since the dream team rigs the televoters way too often. At least there’s no Russia (and Belarus) to give them even more points.
If that’s the direction they wanted to go in they could have picked Athena Manoukian who is better option
We’ve had plenty of good artists who were 16 or 17 before…
Name one
Kristian Kostov. He was 17 and came 2nd.
true. still, i think it’s too much pressure for such a young person.
Blanche was 17 when she came 4th for Belgium with City Lights back in 2017
we love AI, Cyprus to trigger stupid hollywood even more
Bring back the Goddess Evridiki!
Evangelia please !
She is literally copy paste of Andromache, and we all know how she ended. Better to wend someone who can actually sing well, or at least dance “like a maniac”. Silent, slow, wispering singers who do those kind of balkan songs can’t do well at esc, period.
This might be unpopular but after seeing what Loreen went through last year, I really don’t want to see any returning acts. I really want to see what else countries have to offer.
What did she went through? She won and made history! Who cares what toxic fans say?
However I agree with comebacks they had their chance let someone else compete.
Went through what? Toxic fans not accepting she won and could not even applaud like normal fans.
Good thing she did not even bother two cents about them
I absolutely agree with you, Amigo !
Trust me: all of Cyprus’s potential returning artists are better than Loreen. They will not come with copycat songs.
This comment is what I am referring to. “Fans” like this Are just so bad And Toxic for the community. It’s one thing to support one country And not like the other one(s). But to say bad things about the country that Did better than your favorite says a lot about you as a person. It means you Are a bad person! You should not act Like a spoiled brat, But be a good sport. If your favorite Did not win, applaud the person who Did. Don’t booo them And write bad things about them. You should write What went… Read more »
I don’t find it fair for Foureira to return to Eurovision for Greece. Greece has been rejecting her for years. Cyprus gave her the opportunity and she should return for Cyprus. On the other hand I think she should generally not return in Eurovision. What if she ends up 10th? It would be embarrassing. Greece on the other hand is for some reason jealous that Cyprus is doing much better the past years. That’s why the filed a complain. For those of you that say that Cyprus does not sent any Cypriot singers selected internally let me remind you the… Read more »
10th is still a good spot remember in a sea of potentially 40 songs!
Evangelia!!???
I wish Cyprus would remember they are an actual country and have music of their own to send for once instead of always sending Greeks and diaspora
Iceland finds local acts every year despite our small population, Malta does too, Luxembourg intends to, no excuse why Cyprus can’t at least try either
Because we are Panik Records lapdog.
Because Cypriots see themselves as Greeks?
Cyprus and Greece have a similar diaspora and musical taste. We should not forget the Turkish fans that are trying to stop Cyprus from doing well.
Tulisa Contostavlos is of Greek Cypriot descent from her father, does that make her Cypriot?
Silia Kapsis will represent Cyprus in Eurovision2024. She is 17 years old singer – dancer, actor and tv hostess with greek and cypriot roots who lives in Australia. She was on of the proposals in eurovisionFun.com for the greek representative.
I hope it’s Athena Manoukian 😀
It is sad to see the Cypriot Broadcaster pandering to Greek singers when Cyprus has talents like Stavros Michalakakos, Monsieur Doumani or Michalis Violaris.
The Fuego formula won’t work forever, and Andromache being a NQ is the evidence of that.
Lmao Violaris is 79 years old
Age doesn’t mean anything if the artist can put on a good show and offer something fresh.
The Babushkas were the same age and got second place
The era of Eurovision when a gimmicky act like that could do well is long done. And thank God for that, the contest is better of for it
I agree but Andrew wasn’t a clone and did well last year. Also, Greece and Cyprus are inherently linked and only Turkey disagrees.
I won’t be happy until there’s justice for poor Sandro.
I really thought Cyprus was going to be the first country to announce their artist, but Belgium beat them to the punch.
Honestly, none of the names will be selected. Foureira will not return to ESC (despite what she said, she did not close the door but she has moved on and she knows she cannot top the 2018performance), Evangelia desperately wants to participate but I don’t think CyBC will let her sing her own song, they always have a Swedish team pen the song. Nikos Gkanos? LOL He is not active in the music industry anymore. I think CyBC will select another new and unknown artist hopefully with Cypriot roots. It’s disappointing though how they snub local talent. There are rumours… Read more »
I might be cynical but I often assume the Swedish-written songs selected by the other countries were rejected by Melfest first, and it’s a bit early in the season for that to happened.
So a singer-songwriter or someone like Evangelia producing their own entry could be possible. They could still be a picking a non-local artist like Andrew Lambrou though.
I love this time of year when we speculate over things so minor and uncertain!
At this point myb they should just give Sandro the experience he missed in 2020
It’s not disappointing at all. In fact, I welcome any decision they make, because this year they are fighting!
I think its going to be Silia Kapsis…with the greek “Dream Team”
So happy this stupid plan with fame story went down the drain. Im sure the Cybc chose something good! Let’s go Cyprus let’s make 24 remarkable!
I don’t think Cyprus could go wrong this year. They are on a high after Andrew. Fame story has huge potential but this internal selection is becoming a game of guess who’s going to give Cyprus a top 5 placement!
It ain’t gonna be none of these. It’s gonna be Silia Kapsis, another singer that nobody has heard of before neither in Cyprus nor in Greece
A part of me thinks it’s either Athena Manoukian , Tania Breazou or Charis Savva.
I hope we won’t have to wait too much for this because i’m already so excited.
Would like to congratulate the author for his imagination. Sandro being considered for Eurovision 2024 is as possible as seeing Putin headline Moscow pride
The man is definitely in the closet.
Putin is very prideful…of his regime!
We want Queen Foureira of course but I don’t think so