Thalassa (band)
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Thalassa represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998
. They performed the song "Mia Krifi Evesthisia
".
. After the national final, many artists complained that the victory of the group was a fraud. Nevertheless, they went on to compete after shooting two video clips (they stated that the first was too ethnic).
During the rehearsals in Birmingham
, Yiannis Valvis had several fights with the director of the show and was kicked out of the arena
and banned from re-entry. He watched the contest locked inside his hotel room with two security guards guarding his door. Thalassa performed second on the program. They gained 12 points--exclusively from Cyprus--and were ranked 20th of 25.
The group separated after the competition. Dionisia Karoki worked as a backing vocalist for many Greek stars and now teaches singing and music in a private music school. Yiannis Valvis is working as a sound engineer in the Greek radio station Best Radio.
Thalassa's one and only CD-single was released as a promo only. It contains their contest entry, two remixes of it (with vocals from a non-credited singer), and the song Kosme Cinema, which was also among the 10 songs competing to be Greece's entry in the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest
. It received very poor airplay but topped the airplay chart of the Greek radio station FLY FM 89.7.
Eurovision Song Contest 1998
The Eurovision Song Contest 1998 was the 43rd Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 9 May 1998 at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The presenters were Terry Wogan and Ulrika Jonsson...
. They performed the song "Mia Krifi Evesthisia
Mia Krifi Evesthisia
Mia Krifi Evesthisia was the Greek entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998, performed in Greek by Thalassa....
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History
Musician Yiannis Valvis and singer Dionisia Karoki formed the group expressly for the Eurovision Song ContestEurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...
. After the national final, many artists complained that the victory of the group was a fraud. Nevertheless, they went on to compete after shooting two video clips (they stated that the first was too ethnic).
During the rehearsals in Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
, Yiannis Valvis had several fights with the director of the show and was kicked out of the arena
National Indoor Arena
The National Indoor Arena is a large indoor arena and is owned by the NEC Group. It is situated in central Birmingham, England and was opened in 1991, as the largest indoor arena at the time in the UK...
and banned from re-entry. He watched the contest locked inside his hotel room with two security guards guarding his door. Thalassa performed second on the program. They gained 12 points--exclusively from Cyprus--and were ranked 20th of 25.
The group separated after the competition. Dionisia Karoki worked as a backing vocalist for many Greek stars and now teaches singing and music in a private music school. Yiannis Valvis is working as a sound engineer in the Greek radio station Best Radio.
Thalassa's one and only CD-single was released as a promo only. It contains their contest entry, two remixes of it (with vocals from a non-credited singer), and the song Kosme Cinema, which was also among the 10 songs competing to be Greece's entry in the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...
. It received very poor airplay but topped the airplay chart of the Greek radio station FLY FM 89.7.