The artist who will represent Greece in the 68th Eurovision Song Contest was announced today, Tuesday, October 24, at 15:00, on ERT1, in the show "Studio 4", with Nancy Zampetoglou and Thanasis Anagnostopoulos. This is Marina Satti who will travel to Malmö, Sweden for the music competition that will be held from May 7 to 11, 2024.
The acclaimed performer and creator gladly accepted ERT's offer to represent Greece in a symbolic year, as this year marks 50 years since Greece's first appearance at Eurovision, in 1974.
The song that will be performed by Marina Satti has not yet been chosen. Therefore, both ERT and its record company, Golden Records and Minos EMI, a Universal Music Company, as well as the performer, wish this option to be as open as possible.
In this context, from tomorrow, October 25, 2023, to the email eurovision2024@ert.gr, any creators who wish to do so can send, until December 1, 2023, their own proposals for completed songs.
Please note that according to EBU regulations, songs must be original and unreleased, with a maximum time of 3 minutes.
A few words about Marina Satti
A classical piano graduate, advanced music theorists, classical singing and acting major, as well as a scholar of the internationally renowned Berklee College of Music, where she studied orchestration, production and jazz music alongside Danilo Perez and Jamie Haddad among others, Marina Satti has developed a personal sound that combines the different musical traditions he grew up with, such as Greek, Arabic and Balkan. Having represented Greece in the European Jazz Orchestra (EBU) with works by Peter Herbolzheimer, having sung at the John F. Kennedy Center, in Washington, with the World Jazz Nonet and having participated in the a cappella vocal group The Singing Tribe in collaboration with Bobby McFerrin is a creator and performer who is difficult to categorize artistically.
From the Concert Hall and the Lyric Stage, to festivals in the highlands of Crete, it can be pop and ethnic and mainstream at the same time, just as it can be lyrical and urban and traditional at the same time. The European media present her as an ambassador of the Greek and Balkan scene, a special route that marries traditional music with pop, both classical and contemporary. In 2017 she reached the top of the charts with the single "Mantissa", while a little later the audience welcomed "Ponos Kryfos", which premiered on the German COLORS (first time for a Greek artist with Greek lyrics), taking another first on the NOWNESS platform , who first presented her excellent video clip for the traditional song "Why bird me".
In 2017 she also founded CHÓRES [ˈkɔɾɛs], an all-female choral ensemble, made up of more than 150 women aged 15-60, of which she maintains the artistic direction – an artistic nursery that aims to save, process and promote the richness of the Greek tradition , but also in the creation of an original musical repertoire and performance activities in collaboration with contemporary artists, while reviving in a unique way the traditional songs of yesterday with the sound and aesthetics of today. In May 2022, she released her first full-length personal album YENNA, while in 2023 she experimented by delivering the short documentary FLABOURO as well as TUCUTUM, a song-commentary on Balkan trap, which became viral in the summer.
Source: ertnews.gr