After qualifying at the Eurovision semi-final tonight, the song “Rise Up” by Freaky Fortune and RiskyKidd will represent Greece at the Grand Final of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest. Nine more countries qualified for Europe’s biggest music night.
“It was crazy, I was jumping”, artist Nikolaos Raptakis (a.k.a Freaky Forune) stated at a press conference.
“We wanted it to be like this, we want the young people of Greece to dance all the problems away, to Rise Up“, said the artists about the message of their song.
“We would like to set the record for the highest jump at Eurovision.”
The Second Semi-Final took place at the B&W Hallerne in Copenhagen. Watch the video with the Greek artists’ performance at the semi-final:
Switzerland: Hunter Of Stars sung by Sebalter
Slovenia: Round And Round sung by Tinkara Kovač
Poland: My Słowianie – We Are Slavic sung by Donatan and Cleo
Romania: Miracle sung by Paula Seling & OVI
Norway: Silent Storm sung by Carl Espen
Greece: Rise Up sung by Freaky Fortune feat Riskykidd
Malta: Coming Home sung by Firelight
Belarus: Cheesecake sung by Teo
Finland: Something Better sung by Softengine
Austria: Rise Like A Phoenix sung by Conchita Wurst
Greece was drawn to perform in the first half of the Grand Final.
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