Eurovision 2023: Greece will be represented by 16-year-old Viktor Vernikos with “What they say”

Greek participation in the Eurovision 2023 contest has been “locked”.

In Liverpool we will be represented by the youngest ever representative, Victor Vernikos. He is only 16 years old, while his song “What They Say” is his own composition.

The song is an “emotional yet festive ballad,” Victor Vernikos said, revealing that he wrote it at age 14, in April 2021, in what he said was a stressful situation.

Victor Vernicos, as his stage name is, was born in Athens, started piano lessons at the age of four, Voice lessons at eight and guitar lessons at ten.

At eleven he started writing his first songs, while for two years now he has been supervising the production of his own music, attending Music Technology courses.

In the final trio was also the song “Liar” with Melissa Mantzoukis and “Shout out” by the duo Antonia Kaouri and Maria Maragou.

The song of Greece was selected with a combined weighting factor of 50.6% in the vote of the Audience Committee against 49.4% of the vote of the ERT Committee.

The seven-member Commission of ERT, chaired by Dimitris Papadimitriou, is made up of Petros Adams, Leonidas Antonopoulos, Fotis Apergi, Maria Kozakou, Konstantinos Bourouni and Yannis Petridis.

For the first time this year, the final decision by two Committees, exactly how the winning song will emerge in the Eurovision 2023 Final, following the recent change in the voting rules.

The seventy members of the Audience Committee were chosen by lottery and a process that ensures the immutability and age representativeness of the Eurovision audience.

25 members in the 18-24 age group, 20 members in the 25-34 age group, 15 members in the 35-44 age group and 10 members in the 45+ age group were drawn.

The 67th Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Liverpool on 9, 11 and 13 May 2023.

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