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Eurovision: “Rise Up” Europe!

Greece won a place in the Eurovision contest

Newsroom May 9 11:03

Freaky Fortune and Riskykidd will represent Greece to the 59th Eurovision contest. They managed to arouse the crowd calling them to “Rise up”!

Apart from Greece, nine more countries won a place to the final contest: Switzerland, Slovenia, Poland, Romania, Norway, Malta, Belarus, Finland and Austria.

Watch the countries contested in the second semi-final

The first country performed on stage was Malta with the six-member band Firelight which warmed up the audience singing “Coming Home”.

Israel with the rock song “Same Heart” performed by Mei Finegold.

Norway was represented by Carl Espen singing a ballad song “Silent Storm” accompanied by a piano and four violins.

Parachutes and The Shin and Mariko for Georgia singing “Three Minutes to Earth”.

Poland chose a modernized traditional song entitled “My Słowianie – We Are Slavic” performed by Donatan & Cleo. However, all eyes were on the two dancers with the amazing deep neckline.

The crowd was ecstatic when Austria performed its song. The drag queen Conchita Wurst dressed in a gold embroidered dress performed the song “Rise Like a Phoenix”.

Dressed in black Vilija Matačiūnaitė from Lithuania was seeking …“Attention”.

Finland with the boy band Softengine claimed for “Something better”.

Can-Linn for the Irish team performed the song “Heartbeat” dressed in Egyptian style dress.

Belarus appeared on stage with a boy band reminding us the 90s and sung “Cheesecake”.

Esma and Lozano represented FYROM wearing suits in black and white.

The Italian-speaking Sebalter appeared on stage with a guitar representing Switzerland and singing “Hunter of Stars”.

Greece with Freaky Fortune and Riskykidd – and their trampoline – managed to get the whole stadium dancing to the rhythms of “Rise Up”! A great performance for our country which won a place in the Eurovision contest!

Slovenia contested with the ballad song “Round and round”.

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