Klavdia and the song “Asteromata” will represent Greece at the 69th Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland, as the audience and jury committees have decided on tonight’s evening.

Klavdia, whose real name is Claudia Papadopoulou, is 22 years old, is of Pontian descent and has grown up in Aspropyrgos.

The young singer became more widely known through her participation in “The Voice of Greece”, where she reached the final.

In 2022, she released her first single entitled “Lonely Heart”, at ethnic pop dance.

He has appeared next to renowned artists, such as Dionysis Savvopoulos, and participated in festivals such as the “Summer Nostos Festival” with Good Job Nicky.

After “Lonely Heart”, he continued with successful singles such as “dawn” and “torture”.

The story of the Asteromata

“Asteromata” made a special sense since the first time the 12 candidate songs were released to represent us and immediately became a tendency on platforms and YouTube with social media users making it undisputed favorite.

Klavdia, of Pontian descent, has been inspired by “Asteromata”, a piece of contemporary and ethnic sounds with Greek lyrics from the genocide and the uproar of the Pontians, based on the media, the experiences of her family with the refugee After her ancestors were forced to expatriate and settle in the Soviet Union, where her parents were born, deciding to return to Greece in 1991.

“” Asteromas “is a beautiful woman who has nice eyes like stars,” she said.

The song was made by Arcade and Klavdia while the lyrics wrote Arcade.

The night

The evening opened with Elena Paparizou and Sakis Rouvas who, accompanied by the ERT Contemporary Music Orchestra and members of the ERT choir, performed three flagship songs of the competition: “Waterloo” by ABBA, “Hold Me Now” by John Logan, “Waterloo” “Wine, sea and my boy”, with which Marinella first represented Greece at Eurovision 51 years ago.

It was followed by a review of all the songs that have represented Greece at the Eurovision competition, and then Marina Satti with “Zari”, which was last year’s participation in the competition, was on the stage.

During the vote waiting, viewers had the opportunity to enjoy a rich music program with Sakis Rouvas and Elena Paparizou, as well as a 2006 Eurovision review held in Greece after Elena Paparizou’s victory in 2005 with Song “My Number One”. Shortly before the name of the winner of the Greek final was announced on the stage was theo Evan, who will represent Cyprus at this year’s Eurovision, performing Fuego with which Eleni Fouriera represented Cyprus at the 2017 music competition, while a surprise was reserved for a surprise. And for Elena Paparizou who had her birthday (January 31).