A little while after winning the Greek national final for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest, Ilias Kozas, lead singer of the band Koza Mostra spoke to esctoday.com

Alcohol is free was conceived one wild party night but according to Ilias Kozas it has a deeper meaning too. It is an allegory of the situation Greeks experience.

Why does he think the audience chose them to represent  Greece in May? Ilias thinks it boils down to three things: chemistry, music and lyrics that touched the audience’s hearts.


Thanks to Johnny Logan and Hold me now I fell in love with the Eurovision Song Contest, a love that's been going strong ever since with undiminished passion. My first memories date back to 1977 and the lyrics of Rock bottom, Dschinghis Khan and A ba ni bi are still engraved in my brain. I joined esctoday.com in 2006 as a junior editor after being invited by Barry Viniker, I soon became Senior Editor and during the 2007 contest in Helsinki I was appointed Head of Communications. Today I hold the post of Head of Human Resources and I am proud to be working with the best editorial team in the world.