Klavdia has been crowned the winner of Ethnikós Telikós 2025 and will represent Greece at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel, Switzerland.
Tonight’s final took place at the Christmas Theatre in Galatsi, in Athens, where twelve acts competed to win the title of Greece’s Eurovision 2025 representative. The event was hosted by Eurovision 2005 winner Helena Paparizou and two-time Eurovision representative Sakis Rouvas. Klavdia was selected as the winner with “Asteromata” (Starry-eyed).
The show also featured special guest performances by hosts Helena Paparizou, Sakis Rouvas and the Cypriot Eurovision 2025 entrant Theo Evan. Furthermore, last year’s Greek representative, Marina Satti, performed her Eurovision 2024 entry ‘ZARI’.
The voting for Ethnikós Telikós 2025 was a 50-50 split, with an international and national jury equating to 50%, and the remaining 50% which came from the Greek televote.
The following 5 countries made up the international jury:
- France – Lea Ivanne
- The United Kingdom – Wilkin William Edmund Roy
- Italy – Simona Martorelli
- Belgium – Olivier Auclair
- Norway – Martin Holmen
On the Greek jury were:
- Michalis Hatzigiannis – Represented Cyprus at Eurovision 1998
- Jenny Melita
- Fotis Sergoulopoulo
- Margarita Mytilineou
- Yannis Christodoulopoulos
During the show, the top three were revealed and the winner was announced:
- Rikki – “Elevator” 14 points 7th
- Thanos Lambrou – “Free Love” 12 points 9th
- Kostas Ageris – “Gi mou” (My land) 18 points 6th
- Andy Nicolas – “Lost My Way” 8 points =10th
- Klavdia – “Asteromata” (Starry-eyed) – 44 points 1st
- Konstantinos Christoforou and Karafotis – “Paradisos” (Paradise) 13 points 8th
- Georgina Kalais and John Vlaseros – “High Road” 8 points =10th
- BARBZ – “Sirens” – 30 points 3rd
- Evangelia – “Vale” (Put it) – 42 points 2nd
- Dinamiss – “Odyssey” 24 points 4th
- Nafsika – “Unhurt Me” 0 points 12th
- Xannova Xan – “Play It!” 20 points 5th
Klavdia will have the privilege of representing Greece at the Eurovision Song Contest in Switzerland in May 2025. She will perform in the first half of the second semi-final on May 15.
Image Source: Vasso Athanasiadou
Greece debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 when they were represented by Marinella and the song “Krasi, thalassa kai t’agori mou” which finished in 11th place with 7 points. Three years later Greece earned their first top 5 finish with Paschalis, Marianna, Robert, and Bessy who finished in 5th place with “Mathima solfege”. In 2001, Greece achieved their first top 3 placing with Antique and the song “I Would Die For You”. The song became a European hit and charted across the continent. In 2005, Helena Paparizou returned to the Eurovision stage as a solo artist and brought Greece their first, and to date only, victory. Her song “My Number One” won with 230 points, beating runners-up Malta by 38 points.
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