Feeling Alive
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"Feeling Alive" was the Cypriot
Cyprus
Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

 entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003
Eurovision Song Contest 2003
The Eurovision Song Contest 2003 was the forty-eighth Eurovision Song Contest, held at the Skonto Hall in Riga, Latvia on 24 May 2003. The hosts were Marie N and Renārs Kaupers. Sertab Erener, the Turkish entrant, won the contest with "Everyway That I Can", scoring 167 points. The winning...

, performed in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 by Stelios Konstantas
Stelios Konstantas
Stylianos Konstantas is a Cypriot-born singer. He participated in two Cypriot national finals for the Eurovision Song Contest, coming second in 1997 with I grammitis ntropi, and fourth in 1999 with Methysmeno feggari. In 2003, he performed the song "Feeling Alive" as the Cypriot entry for the...

.

The song was performed ninth on the night (following Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

's Claudia Beni
Claudia Beni
Claudia Beni is a pop music singer from Croatia.At the time when she first participated in Dora, the national finals for the Eurovision Song Contest, Claudia was only 12, but she was already an experienced band singer having performed all over Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and...

 with Više nisam tvoja
Više nisam tvoja
"Više nisam tvoja" was the Croatian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, performed bilingually in Croatian and English by Claudia Beni although there is not a bilingual version on record...

 and preceding Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

's Lou
Lou (singer)
Lou is the stage name of Louise Hoffner , a German pop singer. She was the sixth child of her parents and was immediately surrounded by her elder brothers and sisters...

 with "Let's Get Happy
Let's Get Happy
"Let's Get Happy" was the German entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, performed in English by Lou.The song was performed tenth on the night, following Cyprus' Stelios Konstantas with "Feeling Alive" and preceding Russia's t.A.T.u...

"). At the close of voting, it had received 15 points, placing 20th in a field of 26. For his Eurovision appearance, Stelios appeared dressed in a white suit and shirt. His backing performers, which included two girls in sleeveless, white, floor-length gowns, were also dressed in white.

The song is an up-tempo love song, with Konstantas telling his lover that he feels alive when she is with him.

It was succeeded as Cypriot representative
Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest
Cyprus made its debut in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981. Cyprus' best result, fifth place, has been achieved on three occasions: in 1982 with Anna Vissi, 1997 with Hara & Andreas Constantinou, and 2004 with Lisa Andreas....

 at the 2004 Contest
Eurovision Song Contest 2004
The Eurovision Song Contest 2004, was the 49th Contest and it was held in the Abdi İpekçi Arena in Istanbul, Turkey. This was the first occasion in which the contest was held in Turkey after they had won the competition in 2003 with Sertab Erener singing "Everyway That I Can"...

 by Lisa Andreas
Lisa Andreas
Lisa Andreas is an English singer of Cypriot descent. At age 16, she represented Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 and came fifth with her performance of "Stronger Every Minute". Andreas was the youngest singer taking part in the competition that year.-2001 - 2003:Andreas won a...

 with "Stronger Every Minute
Stronger Every Minute
"Stronger Every Minute" was the Cypriot entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, performed in English by Lisa Andreas. The song was finished 5th in the final....

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