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Encyclopedia > Ela Ela (Come Baby)

Ela Ela (Come Baby) was the Cypriot entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, performed in English by Constantinos Christoforou.
As Cyprus had finished in the top ten in the previous year's Contest, the song was already qualified for the final. It was thus performed ninth on the night (following Albania's Ledina Çelo with Tomorrow I Go and preceding Spain's Son De Sol with Brujería). At the close of voting, it had received 46 points, placing 18th in a field of 24 and returning Cyprus to the semi-final at their next Contest appearance. The presenters, Maria Efrosinina and Pavlo Shylko. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Constantinos Christoforou Constantinos Christoforou, Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Χριστοφόρου (b. ... Ruslana , the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 The Eurovision Song Contest 2004 was the forty-ninth Eurovision Song Contest and took place on May 12, 2004 and May 15, 2004, in Istanbul, Turkey. ... Ledina Celo (born on 9 February 1977) is an Albanian singer. ...


The song is an up-tempo number, with Christoforou urging his lover to "come baby, come baby".


Christoforou had previously appeared at the 1996 Contest singing Mono Yia Mas solo, as well as taking part as a member of One with Gimme at the 2002 Contest. With this performance, he became the most prolific contestant to appear purely for Cyprus (Anna Vissi having two appearances for Greece in addition to her sole appearance for Cyprus. Additionally, the performance represented the third "leg" in the rare sequence of a solo performance, followed by one as a group member and followed again by a solo performance. The Eurovision Song Contest 1996 was the 41st Eurovision Song Contest and was held on May 18, 1996 in Oslo. ... The boyband One comes from Cyprus. ... Gimme was the Cypriot entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002, performed in English (the first occasion that the Cypriot entry had not featured Greek lyrics and the first time that English lyrics had been performed) by One. ... Eurovision Song Contest 2002 logo. ... Anna Vissi (Άννα Βίσση in Greek characters; born in Larnaca, Cyprus, December 20, 1957) is a Cypriot singer famous mainly in her home country Cyprus, Greece, with mild success in the United States. ...


It was succeeded as Cypriot representative at the 2006 Contest by Annette Artani with Why Angels Cry. Cyprus made its debut in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981. ... The Eurovision Song Contest 2006 was the fifty-first Eurovision Song Contest, held at the Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens, Greece on the 18 May 2006 (for the semi-final) and 20 May 2006 (for the final). ... Annette Artani Annette Artani (Αννέτ Αρτάνι in Greek), is an American singer/song writer and she will be representing Cyprus in the Eurovision 2006 contest in Athens, Greece this May. ...



 
 

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