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Marina Satti partners with UNHCR for Refugee Children (Music Video)

July 18, 2024 Arts, Culture, FEATURED Comments Off on Marina Satti partners with UNHCR for Refugee Children (Music Video)

Greek singer Marina Satti has partnered with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to support refugee children and produced a breathtaking music video to remind us all the hardships of wars, violence and poverty that push thousands of people to leave their country and seek a better future often using risky …

Hellena protests in the British Museum with song “Bring them back” (video)

June 21, 2019 Culture 1

An original protest inside the British Museum for the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece. Young singer, song writer and composer Hellena staged her protest on Thursday, singing a capella her song “Bring them back, as a piece, back to Greece… back, in their homeland.” On Thursday afternoon, on …

Serbian FM Dacic sings to Greek counterpart Kotzias (video)

April 11, 2018 Greece, Politics Comments Off on Serbian FM Dacic sings to Greek counterpart Kotzias (video)

Diplomacy is more than sit around a table, exchange nice sentences and trade A for B and D for C. Hosting a dinner for his Greek counterpart on a visit to Belgrade, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic grabbed the microphone and sang a Greek song to Nikos Kotzias … in …

Demy and This Is Love bring Greece to Eurovision 2017 finals VIDEO

May 10, 2017 Arts 1

Demy and her song This Is Love have brought Greece back to the Eurovision finals after the country missed out in 2016. Greek fans think this entry can push on into the top 10 of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. In the first Eurovision semi final winners’ press conference, she …

US rocker Chris Cornell visits Elaionas refugee camp in Athens

April 10, 2017 Arts, Culture Comments Off on US rocker Chris Cornell visits Elaionas refugee camp in Athens

US rocker Chris Cornell visited a refugee camp in Athens to hear first hand the stories and the plight of people fleeing war. Cornell and his wife Vicky Karayannis visited the Eleonas camp beginning of the month. The camp hosts mostly Afghan refugees. The Cornell family visited the camp together …

US rapper Rick Ross’ Greek-inspired song “Santorini Greece” (video)

March 17, 2017 Tourism Comments Off on US rapper Rick Ross’ Greek-inspired song “Santorini Greece” (video)

American rapper and entrepreneur Rick Ross released a new album with a Greek-inspired song: Santorini Greece. It is the second track of the album Rather You Than Me (2017) and it focuses on Rick Ross’ past compared to his present. According to music websites, Ross talks about a lot of …

Greece: Demy and This Is Love go Eurovision 2017 in Kiev

March 7, 2017 Culture, Music Comments Off on Greece: Demy and This Is Love go Eurovision 2017 in Kiev

Greece has decided: Demy and the song This Is Love will represent Greece in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The national finals were held on Monday at the studios of state broadcaster ERT in Athens. The decision was determined through televoting by Greek public …

Hillarious! Greece’s Eurovision song had a secret message to creditors?

May 20, 2015 Very Mix Comments Off on Hillarious! Greece’s Eurovision song had a secret message to creditors?

Things are not always as they seem to be. While millions of Europeans thought that the Greek Eurovision song was about a broken heart and desperate love with all essential emotions of betrayal, endless pain and struggle… Alas! The lyrics of “One last Breath” sung by Maria Elena Kyriakou could …

August is Cicadas’ time: are Greek cicadas really lazy?

August 6, 2013 Tourism 6

For one more time I asked myself the same question: why are cicadas considered to be lazy?. The truth is that hundreds, most likely thousands cicadas start their work at 6 o’clock in the morning. Shortly after the dawn. They continue their song all thought the day until late after …

Don’t Ask the Sky (music video)

March 17, 2011 Music Comments Off on Don’t Ask the Sky (music video)

This has been an all times Greek classic. “Min ton rotas ton oyrano” – Don’t ask the sky. It was composed by Manos Hatzidakis 1959 for the film “To nisi ton gennaion” (The island of the Brave) about the battle of Crete during the Nazi occupation. Originally it was sung …

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