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by Yiorgos Kasapoglou February 7, 2007 12:17 pm 224 views

The expected press conference previously announced by the Greek broadcaster is taking place at the Athens Plaza Hotel, Athens, now. Last year's host broadcaster ERT will make public the 3 songs that will compete at the national final on 28th February. esctoday.com are live at the press conference and will provide you all the details in real time. Later today, we will be playing the three songs entered in the Greek final.

On 16th January Greek national broadcaster, ERT gave a press conference and announced the participating artists of this year's national selection. Tamta, Christos Dantis and Sarbel have been chosen to take part in Eurovision 2007, the Greek nationalfinal, that will take place at Athinon Arena Music Hall, Athens, on 28th February. You can follow the press conference live here

Today Greek broadcaster will make public the 3 songs of the participating artists and more details regarding the national final.

LIVE REPORT

All three artists have arrived at the Athens Plaza press conference and introductions are now underway.

Tamta's song is called With love. The song will be in English and Greek. Itis written by Nikos Terzis,the lyrics will be largely in English but there will be a bridge in the song that has Greek lyrics. Terzis composed Die for you for Antique in 2001and Love me tonightfor Angelica Agurbash in 2005.

The running order has been decided:

  1. Sarbel Geia sou Maria
  2. Tamta With love
  3. Christos Dantis No Madonna

Tamta's song is by Nikos Terzis andPoseidonas Giannopoulos. It is a ballad with ethnic elements and reminiscent of some Greek entries of the 80s and 90s. Christos Dantis' song is a rock song composed by himself and Natalia Germanou. Sarbel's entry is composed by Alex Papakonstantinou.

Christos Dantis explained that he wanted to participate at the Eurovision Song Contest again because he enjoys the competition and likes the high level exposure. He got the idea for the song from watching a movie about the life of Elvis Prestley. It is the most modern and least traditional of the three entries. The song is fun and has an underlying anger!

Sarbel's entry is by the same authors of some of Helena Paparizou's songs, and the style is clearly visible. It has a traditional upbeat Greek tempo.

The songs were all shown on ERT Satellite and Star News.

The hosts, Maria Bakodimouand Fotis Sergoulopoulos promised a lot of humour on the night and said how delighted they are to be hosting the show.

esctoday.com will be bringing you interviews with all three singers later this afternoon. Finnish broadcaster YLE are at the press conference and are interviewing all three finalists for their show next week.

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