Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005

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Eurovision Song Contest 2005
Country Cyprus
National selection
Selection processArtist: Internal selection
Song: National final
Selection date(s)Artist: 24 November 2004
Song: 1 February 2005
Selected entrantConstantinos Christoforou
Selected song"Ela Ela (Come Baby)"
Selected songwriter(s)Constantinos Christoforou
Finals performance
Final result18th, 46 points
Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest
◄2004 • 2005 • 2006►

Cyprus participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005. Constantinos Christoforou was chosen to represent the country with song "Ela Ela (Come Baby)".

Before Eurovision[]

Artist selection[]

On 24 November 2004, CyBC announced that they had internally selected Constantinos Christoforou to represent Cyprus in Kyiv. Christoforou previously represented Cyprus at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1996 and 2002 (as part of One), placing ninth and sixth respectively.[1]

National final[]

Constantinos Christoforou's contest song was selected through a four-song national final. The four competing songs were announced on 28 January 2005.[1] Among the songwriters, Mike Connaris composed the Cypriot Eurovision entry in 2004.

The final took place on 1 February 2005 at the Monte Caputo Nightclub in Limassol, hosted by Tasos Tryfonos and Eleni Manousaki and broadcast on CySAT as well as online via cybc.cy.[2] All four competing songs were performed by Constantinos Christoforou and the winning song, "Ela Ela", was selected by a combination of votes from public televoting (60%) and a seven-member jury panel (40%).[3] The jury panel consisted of Ruslana (Eurovision Song Contest 2004 winner), Evridiki (1992 and 1994 Cypriot Eurovision representative), Dimitris Korgialas (composer), Dafni Bokota (singer and television presenter), Evi Papamichael (Head of Delegation for Cyprus at Eurovision), Sokratis Soumelas (EMI Greece representative) and Nikos Nikolaou. In addition to the performances of the competing songs, the show featured guest performances by Ruslana, Evridiki and Dimitris Korgialas.

Draw Song Songwriter(s) Place
1 "Slow" Constantinos Christoforou 2
2 "She's No Fool" Mike Connaris 3
3 "If You Go" Mike Connaris 4
4 "Ela Ela" Constantinos Christoforou 1

At Eurovision[]

Constantinos was joined by Elena Patroklou, who already represented Cyprus in 1991 where she ended up 9th with her song "SOS".[4]

Cyprus automatically qualified to the grand final, because it was on the top 12 last year. He performed 9th, following Albania and preceding Spain. Cyprus ended 18th with 46 points.[5] As Cyprus failed to reach top 11 in the final, the country was forced to compete in semi-final of the 2006 Contest.

The spokesperson who revealed Cyprus's votes for other countries was Melani Steliou, a CyBC host.[6]

Voting[]

Points awarded to Cyprus[]

Points awarded to Cyprus (Final)[7]
Score Country
12 points
10 points  Bulgaria
8 points
7 points  Albania
6 points
5 points
4 points
3 points  United Kingdom
2 points
1 point

Points awarded by Cyprus[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Bakker, Sietse (23 November 2004). "Constantinos Christoforou for Cyprus". Esctoday.
  2. ^ "Four songs for Constantinos Christoforou". Esctoday. 28 January 2005.
  3. ^ "Cyprus 2005".
  4. ^ Philips, Roel (22 February 2005). "Kiev 2005: Constantinos feat. Elena Patroklou". ESCToday. Archived from the original on 20 April 2021. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  5. ^ "Grand Final of Kyiv 2005". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 20 April 2021. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  6. ^ Philips, Roel (2005-05-17). "The 39 spokespersons!". ESCToday. Archived from the original on 2005-12-19. Retrieved 2009-04-27.
  7. ^ a b "Results of the Grand Final of Kyiv 2005". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 20 April 2021. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  8. ^ "Results of the Semi-Final of Kyiv 2005". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 20 April 2021. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
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